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the most august financiers had been paraded before congressional investigating committees where their helplessness, ignorance, and multifarious schemes of self-enrichment had been made public and excoriated

It penetrates the lowest depths of proletarian life: that is, its seductions inveigle even the working poor

Once in the United States, they joined their efforts with homegrown superannuated farmers and handicrafters displaced by the machine and the factory’s finely reticulated division of labor

Gilded Age industrialism was the irresistible and empyrean story of the forces of production in the hands of great men

Militants of the moment began to demand work not as a sop to the indigent, but as a right of citizenship, as precious and inviolable as anything in the Bill of Rights.