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The debate on world poverty and globalisation is one which began two centuries ago in the wake of the French Revolution. A major historian traces the history of those arguments and relates them to current discussions and policies. In the 1790s there was a fundamental shift in attitudes to poverty (led by Condorcet and Tom Paine), one which believed that poverty could be alleviated or even eliminated, by moving towards a society in which, in Paine's words, we would no 'longer see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows'; one in which many disadvantages would be relieved by right. Such thinking was robustly countered by Christian evangelicals. But it surfaced again from the late nineteenth century, forming the ideas of social reformers such as the Webbs and Edwardian thinkers about the welfare state. The book is published to coincide with the Anglo-American Historical Conference on 'Wealth and Poverty'.Review: [Stedman Jones] produces an argument that is not only powerful in its own right but should act as a stimulus and inspiration to others.

Social stratification --- History of Europe --- Classe ouvrière --- Révolution industrielle. --- Poverty --- Socialism --- Industrial revolution. --- History. --- History --- France --- Angleterre (GB) --- Conditions sociales --- Classe ouvrière --- Révolution industrielle.

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The first collection of critical essays to focus specifically on the fiction produced by American novelists of the Depression era, The Novel and the American Left contributes substantially to the newly emerging emphasis on twentieth-century American literary radicalism. Recent studies have recovered this body of work and redefined in historical and theoretical terms its vibrant contribution to American letters. Casey consolidates and expands this field of study by providing a more specific consideration of individual novels and novelists, many of which are reaching new contemporary audiences t

Arbeidersklasse in de literatuur --- Classe ouvrière dans la littérature --- Crises (Economie) in de literatuur --- Crises économiques dans la littérature --- Depressions in literature --- Progressisme (Amerikaanse politiek) --- Progressisme (Politique américaine) --- Progressive movement in literature --- Progressivism (United States politics) --- Progressivism in literature --- Right and left (Political science) in literature --- Working class in literature --- American fiction --- Communism and literature --- Depressions --- Politics and literature --- Right and left (Political science) --- Socialism and literature --- Working class writings, American --- Labor and laboring classes in literature --- Literature and socialism --- Literature --- History and criticism --- History --- 20th century --- United States --- 1929 --- Cain, James Mallahan --- Herbst, Josephine --- Page, Myra --- Gold, Michael --- Fearing, Kenneth Flexner --- Criticism and interpretation --- Weatherwax, Clara --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- Working class in literature. --- Progressivism in literature. --- Depressions in literature. --- History and criticism.