Johnston The Radical Middle Class

Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Robert D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Maps ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xvii

PART I: REHABILITATING THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS 1

One: Rethinking the Middle Class: Politics, History, and Theory 3

Two: Curt Muller and the Capitalist Middle Class: Social Misconstructions of Reality 18

Three: Harry Lane and the Radicalism of Middle-Class Reform 29

PART II: THE POPULIST POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PROGRESSIVE ERA PORTLAND 47

Four: The Contours of Class in Portland 51

Five: Capitalism, Anticapitalism, and the Solidarity of Middle Class and Working Class 74

Six: Petit Bourgeois Politics in Portland and World History 90

Seven: Will Daly: The Petit Bourgeois Hero of Labor 99

PART III: "THE MOST COMPLETE DEMOCRACY IN THE WORLD": THE POPULIST RADICALISM OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY 115

Eight: Direct Democracy as Antidemocracy? The Evolution of the Oregon System, 1884-1908 119

Nine: Direct Democracy's Mechanic: William S. U'Ren 127

Ten: From the Grand Reorganization to a Syndicalism of Housewives: Feminist Populism and the Other Spirit of '76 138

Eleven: The Political Economy of Populist Democracy: The Single Tax Movement in Portland, 1908-1916 159

PART IV: A POPULISM OF THE BODY: THE RATIONALITY AND RADICALISM OF ANTIVACCINATIONISM 177

Twelve: A Deluded Mob of Ignorant Fools? The Historiography of Antivaccination, and the Risks of Vaccination 179

Thirteen: Shutting Down the Schools: Parents and Protest in Mt. Scott 191

Fourteen: From the Death of a Child to Sedition against the State: The Life and Ideology of Lora C. Little 197

Fifteen: Direct Democracy and Antivaccination 207

Sixteen: The Success and Radicalism of Antivaccination 218

PART V. THE USES OF POPULISM AFTER PROGRESSIVISM: THE 1922 SCHOOL BILL AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE KU KLUX KLAN 221

Seventeen: School Boards and Strikes: Petite Bourgeoisie against Elite 223

Eighteen: Liberal Populism: The Compulsory Public School Bill 227

Nineteen: Corporate Tools: The Middling World of the Portland Klan 234

Twenty: The Producer's Call and the Portland Housewives' Council: The Tenuous Survival of Petit Bourgeois Radicalism 248

PART VI: CONCLUSION: POPULISM, CAPITALISM, AND THE POLITICS OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS 255

Twenty-One: The Lower Middle Class in the American Century 257

Twenty-Two: The Fate of Populism: Moral Economy and the Resurgence of Middle-Class Politics 266

Appendix 1: Tables 279

Appendix 2: Map, Voter Registration Density by Precinct, 1916 291

Abbreviations 293

Notes 295

Index 381

Über Autor(innen)

Robert D. Johnston is Director of the Teaching of History Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.