The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, OregonPrinceton University Press, 31 oct. 2013 - 424 pages 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. |
Table des matières
1 | |
PART II THE POPULIST POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROGRESSIVE ERA PORTLAND | 47 |
THE POPULIST RADICALISM OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY | 115 |
THE RATIONALITY AND RADICALISM OF ANTIVACCINATIONISM | 177 |
THE 1922 SCHOOL BILL AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE KU KLUX KLAN | 221 |
POPULISM CAPITALISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE TWENTIETHCENTURY AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS | 255 |
Appendix 1 Tables | 279 |
Appendix 2 Map Voter Registration Density by Precinct 1916 | 291 |
Abbreviations | 293 |
Notes | 295 |
381 | |