Struggles for Justice

Papeprback. Social responsibility and the liberal state. In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prize-winning historian Alan Dawley tracesthe group struggles involved in the nation’s rise to power. Probing the dynamics of social change, he explores tensions between industrial workers and corporate capitalists, Victorian moralists and New Women, native Protestants and Catholic immigrants. Thoughtful analysis and sparkling narrative combine to make this book a major challenge to earlier interpretations of the period.