Invading the tenements -- Stanny's empire on the Bowery -- In America -- we only look to make money? -- To love with severity -- The business of godly charity -- Letters of intent -- I feel you have done me great injustice -- My political attitude is making some of our generous friends uneasy -- Making a killing -- Prime law? Trumps right of revolution -- Sisters in struggle -- There is nothing socialistic or suffragistic in the project -- Sisters at odds -- Absolute authority as to both men and measures -- Mother Jones's last stand -- Epilogue : recognizing class in ourselves
Summary
Huyssen interweaves dramatic stories of wealthy and poor New Yorkers at the turn of the twentieth century, uncovering how initiatives in charity, labor struggles, and housing reform chafed against social, economic, and cultural differences. A major contribution to the history of American capitalism, Progressive Inequality makes tangible the abstract dynamics of class relations and opens a rare window ontocurrenteconomic and social debates
