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Does Progress Spawn Poverty? A Gilded Age Issue Remains With Us
Friday, February 27, 2015 12:51
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The “long nineteenth century” of class against class climaxed in the labor insurgency that followed the Great Crash of 1929. It seemed to resolve itself in the New Deal. But the questions it raised have endured, resurfaced, and grown more pressing of late.
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/does_progress_spawn_poverty_a_gilded_age_issue_remains_with_us_20150227/
