Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement

by Robert H. Wiebe

Book Overview

In this perceptive, influential book, Robert Wiebe shows how businessmen helped to shape--and were shaped by--social reform in the early years of the 20th century. The Progressive Era served as a way station between agrarian and urban America: into it came men and women, institutions, and values born on the farms and in the towns; out of it emerged the first practical experiments in social reorganization for an industrial era. Although this exciting,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0929587022
• ISBN13: 9780929587028
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"