A fatal drifting apart : democratic social knowledge and Chicago reform

Westhoff, Laura M. (Author).

Record details

OCLC: ocn647471822
ISBN: 0814272177
ISBN: 9780814272176
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages).
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Publisher: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.

Contents:

"He who merits victory" : liberal republicanism and the crisis of the 1890s -- "To serve as a medium of acquaintance and sympathy" : the Civic Federation and conflicting visions of democratic social knowledge -- "To add the social function to democracy" : Jane Addams, Hull House, and democratic social knowledge -- "Such a piece of business folly" : labor arbitration and class struggles over democratic social knowledge -- "The struggle is bound to take in the Negro" : race and democratic social knowledge -- "Drawn on rational and scientific lines" : the fate of democratic social knowledge -- Epilogue.