Jonathan A. Glickstein, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States.(book review)(Book Review)
Business History, April, 2004 by Wilson, Mark R.
JONATHAN A. GLICKSTEIN, American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States (Charlottesville, VA, and London: University of Virginia Press, 2002. Pp.x 361. ISBN 0 8139 2115 5, $39.50).
This book addresses important questions about work and competition that are no less pressing today than they were in the early nineteenth century. In today's global economy, struggles over free trade, wages and welfare engage hundreds of millions of people all over the world. Is capitalism the best available engine for economic growth and opportunity, or a recipe for exploitation and mass poverty? To what extent does economic productivity depend upon the threat of dire poverty and the push of relentless competition?...
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