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Community and Conflict: Working People Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1877-1893 | Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s History | Who Built America?

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New York City police drive back striking streetcar workers and their sympathizers as a lone horsecar, operated by company personnel, attempts to make its usual journey along Grand Street. Source: Thure de Thulstrup, Harper’s Weekly, March 13, 1886—American Social History Project. As industrial capitalism extended its reach into every corner of the nation’s life, Americans differed on the merits of the emerging social order. Among those who deplored the industrial system’s callous disregard for human beings was the poet Walt Whitman, who in 1871 had railed against the contemporary “hollowness of heart” and “depravity of the business classes.” Humorists Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s novel The Gilded Age (1874) satirized the politics and values of the post–Civil War boom years: “Get rich . . . dishonestly if we can, honestly if we must.” Historians later adopted their title to describe the materialism and superficiality of the late nineteenth century. Gilded Age America was a soc

Volume 2, Chapter 2 Community and Conflict: Working People Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1877-1893 New York Streetcar Workers Strike, March 1886 New York City police drive back striking streetcar workers and their sympathizers as a lone horsecar, operated by company personnel, attempts to make its usual journey along Grand Street. Source: Thure de Thulstrup, Harper’s Weekly , March 13, 1886—American Social History Project. As industrial capitalism extended its reach into every corner of the nation’s life, Americans differed on the merits of the emerging social order. Among those who deplor

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