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005			20240726104716.0
008			140616s2014 miu ob 001 0 eng
010			_a2013047122
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _epn _cDLC _dYDX _dIDEBK _dYDXCP _dNT _dOCLCO _dEBLCP _dE7B _dP@U _dJSTOR _dOCLCQ _dDEBSZ _dOCLCO _dCOCUF _dMOR _dCCO _dPIFAG _dOCLCA _dZCU _dMERUC _dOCLCQ _dOCLCA _dU3W
020			_a9781617039904 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a9781626740242 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	1	4	_aHC105 _b.S778 2014
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aGoldstene, Claire. _e1
245	1	0	_aThe struggle for America's promise : _bequal opportunity at the dawn of corporate capital / _cClaire Goldstene.
260			_aJackson : _bUniversity Press of Mississippi, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
520	0		_a"In The Struggle for America's Promise, Claire Goldstene seeks to untangle one of the enduring ideals in American history, that of economic opportunity. She explores the varied discourses about its meaning during the upheavals and corporate consolidations of the Gilded Age. Some proponents of equal opportunity seek to promote upward financial mobility by permitting more people to participate in the economic sphere thereby rewarding merit over inherited wealth. Others use opportunity as a mechanism to maintain economic inequality. This tension, embedded with the idea of equal opportunity itself and continually reaffirmed by immigrant populations, animated social dissent among urban workers while simultaneously serving efforts by business elites to counter such dissent. Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity. She considers the efforts of Booker T. Washington in a post-Civil War South to ground opportunity in landownership as an attempt to confront the intersection of race and class. She also explores the determination of the Knights of Labor to define opportunity in terms of controlling one's own labor. She looks at the attempts by Samuel Gompers through the American Federation of Labor as well as by business elites through the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Civic Federation to shift the focus of opportunity to leisure and consumption. The Struggle for America's Promise also includes such radical figures as Edward Bellamy and Emma Goldman, who were more willing to step beyond the boundaries of the discourse about opportunity and question economic competition itself"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_a"This haven of equal opportunity to all" -- _tEqual opportunity as landownership : Booker T. Washington's Quest -- _tEqual opportunity in labor : producerism and the Knights of Labor -- _tAnarchism and equal opportunity : Emma Goldman in America -- _tEqual opportunity remade I : Samuel Gompers and the pursuit of leisure and consumption -- _tEqual opportunity remade II : business organizes -- _tEdward Bellamy and the reimagining of equal opportunity.
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600	1	0	_aWashington, Booker T., _d1856-1915.
600	1	0	_aGompers, Samuel, _d1850-1924.
600	1	0	_aGoldman, Emma, _d1869-1940.
600	1	0	_aBellamy, Edward, _d1850-1898.
650		0	_aIncome distribution _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aWealth _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aOpportunity _xEconomic aspects _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aLabor movement _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aIndustrial relations _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password. _uhttpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=787428&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
942			_cOB _D _eEB _hHC _m2014 _QOL _R _x _8NFIC _2LOC
994			_a92 _bNT
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell