Henry George and the crisis of inequality

About this book

America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the 19th century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839-1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. This exploration of George's life and times merges labour, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labour movement in Gilded Age New York.