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This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major accomplishments. A many-sided reform movement that lasted from the late 1890s until the early 1920s, progressivism emerged as a response to the excesses of the Gilded Age. Progressives fought for worker's compensation, child labor laws, minimum wage and maximum hours legislation; they enacted anti-trust laws, instituted the graduated income tax, won women the right to ...

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Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction 2009, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195311068

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