Steve Fraser
When Class Warfare was in Vogue:
Labor and its Allies in the Struggle for Equality and Democracy
Monday, October 12, 2015, 7:00-8:45 PM,
Nott Memorial
The discussion dinner preceding the talk, at 5:30 PM, will be at the
Golub Minerva House.
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Steve Fraser will discuss the visionary attempts by labor and its allies among 19th and 20th century social reformers to protect the democratic commonwealth against the rise of American industrial and finance capitalism. He will describe the mass movements that envisioned a new world supplanting the dog-eat-dog Darwinian capitalism that characterized Gilded Age America with its pronounced hierarchies of wealth and power. This late 19th century resistance movement culminated in the era of the Great Depression and New Deal of the 1930s and 1940s. Steve Fraser is a writer, editor, and historian. He has taught at Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and NYU. Fraser’s most recent book is The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. Other notable books include Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace; Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life; Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy. His interview with Bill Moyers can be viewed here.
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