{"product_id":"grand-plans-judith-sealander-9780813116532","title":"Grand Plans: Business Progressivism and Social Change in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929","description":"\u003cp\u003eScholars may have widely differing views of the Progressive Era, but all see business as holding the key to the reforms of that period. In this new book Judith Sealander amplifies our understanding of the relationship between business leaders and reform through a detailed examination of Dayton and the Miami Valley of Ohio. She focuses specifically on four progressive projects that made this nine-county region nationally known as a center for reform activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four \"projects\" include an extensive program of employee benefits instituted at the National Cash Register Company; the creation, in the Miami Conservancy District, of a massive flood prevention system; the institution of a new businesslike city-manager government in Dayton; and a new experimental approach to education in the region's public and private schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell grounded in the scholarly literature on progressivism and drawing from a rich trove of local manuscript sources, Judith Sealander has provided an integrated analysis of the role of business leadership in these four reform areas that corrects the exaggerated treatment business has often received. She shows how this one group of businessmen functioned as reformers, the \"grand plans\" they had for changing society, their merger of scientific engineering, business management, and moral fervor, and the benefits and costs of their kind of progressivism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eGrand Plans\u003c\/i\u003e contributes new insights into the Progressive Era and will interest scholars of that period as well as historians of American business, urban affairs, and reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Sealander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813116538\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813116532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 5.70w x 0.93d","brand":"Judith Sealander","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059814691071,"sku":"9780813116532","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e752a979-b753-4dd3-a90a-dd6662b08a4c.jpg?v=1685060498","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grand-plans-judith-sealander-9780813116532","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}