The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwestern Populist Thought (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674690516)

Populism--progressive or retrogressive force? Posing this question, Norman Pollack draws on Populist manuscripts and newspapers, the best evidence for the movement's response to industrialism. In the words of farmers and workers, Populism springs to life, ceasing to be an abstraction. The author concludes that the movement, while primarily agrarian, had significant intellectual and labor support; accepting industrialization, it opposed capitalistic industrialism as alienating and degrading the individual. In this intellectual history--based on data most of which has been ignored--the author takes a first step toward a more comprehensive analysis of industrial America.

Author: Norman Pollack
ISBN-10: 0674690516
ISBN-13: 9780674690516
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1976
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d