Helgeson Questions

KEY QUESTIONS
The Model Town of Pullman: Remaking Political Imagination in the Industrial Age
Jeffrey Helgeson, Texas State University

Why did many Americans experience the rise of industrialization, with its significant economic growth, as a crisis for the future of the nation?
Was George Pullman’s effort to create “a new worker” built on democratic view of the world?
How do the feudal or interpersonal concepts of power differ from those that arose in age of corporate America?
Who should have economic, political, and social rights?
How could people excluded from those rights gain access to them? How have they done so? What have the limits of their efforts been?
How might have ideas about race, gender, and culture come to define people’s position in relation to the law and access to economic opportunities?

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