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Activism
American Capitalism
American Majority
American middle class
Anti-capitalism
Anti-Federalism
Anti-imperialism
Antimilitarism
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Authoritarian socialism
Big government
Big labor
Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
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Class conflict
Corporate liberalism
Corrupt Bargain
Counter-revolutionary
Cross-class alliance
Cultural hegemony
Demagogue
Despotism
Direct democracy
Economic democracy
Enlightened despotism
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For Marx
Georgism
Gilded Age
High modernism
Imperialism
Karl Marx
Labor aristocracy
Left-wing politics
Liberalism
Massive resistance
Middle class
Middle-class values
Muckraker
New Deal coalition
People's Power League
Petite bourgeoisie
Political economy
Political machine
Political radicalism
Political revolution
Politics
Populism
Progress and Poverty
Progressive Era
Progressivism
Puritans
Racism
Radical centrism
Radical democracy
Radical Republican
Radical right (United States)
Radicalism (historical)
Radicalization
Radicals (UK)
Reactionary
Revolution
Right-wing politics
Right-wing populism
Ruling class
Sexism
Social liberalism
Syndicalism
The American Democrat
The Making of the English Working Class
The Servile State
Tyrant
Product details
- ISBN 9780691126005
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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America has a long tradition of middle-class radicalism, albeit one that intellectual orthodoxy has tended to obscure. The Radical Middle Class seeks to uncover the democratic, populist, and even anticapitalist legacy of the middle class. By examining in particular the independent small business sector or petite bourgeoisie, using Progressive Era Portland, Oregon, as a case study, Robert Johnston shows that class still matters in America. But it matters only if the politics and culture of the leading player in affairs of class, the middle class, is dramatically reconceived. This book is a powerful combination of intellectual, business, labor, medical, and, above all, political history. Its author also humanizes the middle class by describing the lives of four small business owners: Harry Lane, Will Daly, William U'Ren, and Lora Little. Lane was Portland's reform mayor before becoming one of only six senators to vote against U.S. entry into World War I. Daly was Oregon's most prominent labor leader and a onetime Socialist. U'Ren was the national architect of the direct democracy movement. Little was a leading antivaccinationist.
The Radical Middle Class further explores the Portland Ku Klux Klan and concludes with a national overview of the American middle class from the Progressive Era to the present. With its engaging narrative, conceptual richness, and daring argumentation, it will be welcomed by all who understand that reexamining the middle class can yield not only better scholarship but firmer grounds for democratic hope.
Robert D. Johnston is Director of the Teaching of History Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
