... League progressive movement economic depression self-reliance Jane Addams Marx's theory antimaterialism socialism Nothing could have been more triumphant for Chicago and the nation than the spectacle of the world's fair as it sparkled all summer. And nothing could have been more tragic—and grimly...

...This chapter concerns British labor agitations from 1910 to 1913 involving workers from disparate industrial sectors. Directly fuelled by the duplicitous welfarism of the new liberals, these strikes exemplified a complicated non-virtuous antimaterialism among proletarian constituencies that went...