A fatal drifting apart : democratic social knowledge and Chicago reform / Laura M. Westhoff.

Author/creator Westhoff, Laura M.
Format Book
Publication InfoColumbus : Ohio State University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxv, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Social reformers--Illinois. --Chicago. --History.
Social ethics--Illinois. --Chicago. --History.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
United States--Social conditions. --1865-1918.

SeriesUrban life and urban landscape
Urban life and urban landscape series. ^A236054
Contents "He who merits victory" : liberal republicanism and the crisis of the 1890s -- "To serve as a medium of acquaintance and sympathy" : the Civic Federation and conflicting visions of democratic social knowledge -- "To add the social function to democracy" : Jane Addams, Hull House, and democratic social knowledge -- "Such a piece of business folly" : labor arbitration and class struggles over democratic social knowledge -- "The struggle is bound to take in the Negro" : race and democratic social knowledge -- "Drawn on rational and scientific lines" : the fate of democratic social knowledge -- Epilogue.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-304) and index.
LCCN 2006100374
ISBN9780814210581 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814210589 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814291375 (cd-rom)
ISBN0814291376 (cd-rom)