A Fatal Drifting Apart Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform /
Laura M. Westhoff.
- 1 online resource (xv, 309 p.)
- Urban life and urban landscape .
- Urban life and urban landscape series. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.
"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.
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Social ethics--History.--Illinois--Chicago Social reformers--History.--Illinois--Chicago
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918. Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.