History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0482 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Critics of Industrial Capitalism
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The idea
Three writers attacked the industrial order: Henry George in Progress and Poverty, Edward Bellamy in Looking Backward, Thorstein Veblen in The Theory of the Leisure Class.
In practice
George's single tax on land, Bellamy's utopian socialism, and Veblen's conspicuous consumption.
Where people slip
Their books appeared in eighteen seventy-nine, eighteen eighty-eight and eighteen ninety-nine. Unit five shows Bellamy's and George's followers joining the Populists.
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