The corporate ideal in the liberal state 1900-1918 / James Weinstein

Public ISBD Titre : The corporate ideal in the liberal state 1900-1918 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : James Weinstein, Auteur Editeur : Boston : Beacon Press Année de publication : 1968 Importance : 263 p Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Histoire économique  Histoire sociale  Etats Unis  Socialisme  Libéralisme  Entreprises  Emploi  Travail Index. décimale : 01.WEI Résumé : In the tradition of the best of revisionist history writing, the author takes on two established tenets of American dogma and effectively upholds his position. Working within the first two decades of this century in what was commonly known as the progressive era, American historians have generally concluded that the epoch produced more rhetorical aspiration than genuine social reform. Mr. Weinstein differs in that he believes that the more sophisticated members of the American plutocracy encouraged: pseudo-reforms that made the 1900-1918 period a genuine pre-vision of the New Deal, Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society. The instrumentality of this corporate social order was the business-dominated National Civic Federation, under whose aegis a liberal state was sought after which would minimize social threats from the lower classes and would deceive the middle and intellectual classes into believing that a good and just society Was at hand. The major concern of this study is a monographic analysis of the goals and techniques of the NCF, and it is a work that will be read by advanced students of twentieth century American history. The corporate ideal in the liberal state 1900-1918 [texte imprimé] / James Weinstein, Auteur . - Boston : Beacon Press, 1968 . - 263 p. Langues : Anglais (eng) Tags : Histoire économique  Histoire sociale  Etats Unis  Socialisme  Libéralisme  Entreprises  Emploi  Travail Index. décimale : 01.WEI Résumé : In the tradition of the best of revisionist history writing, the author takes on two established tenets of American dogma and effectively upholds his position. Working within the first two decades of this century in what was commonly known as the progressive era, American historians have generally concluded that the epoch produced more rhetorical aspiration than genuine social reform. Mr. Weinstein differs in that he believes that the more sophisticated members of the American plutocracy encouraged: pseudo-reforms that made the 1900-1918 period a genuine pre-vision of the New Deal, Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society. The instrumentality of this corporate social order was the business-dominated National Civic Federation, under whose aegis a liberal state was sought after which would minimize social threats from the lower classes and would deceive the middle and intellectual classes into believing that a good and just society Was at hand. The major concern of this study is a monographic analysis of the goals and techniques of the NCF, and it is a work that will be read by advanced students of twentieth century American history.

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