Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present and The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The American IdeologyChapter 2. Great Strikes RevisitedChapter 3. The University and Industrial ReformChapter 4. Labor's Search for LegitimacyChapter 5. Coming of Age in Internationalist TimesEpilogueNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"[The Long Gilded Age] reflects the author's long consideration and detailed knowledge of foundational developments in United States capitalism and culture during the final decades of the nineteenth century." (Enterprise & Society) "Leon Fink shakes up understandings of U.S. history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-his Long Gilded Age-with unique attention to and global perspective on the contradictions of free labor ideology, the resolution of labor disputes in an age of epic strikes, and the youth culture of American socialism. The Long Gilded Age is ready-made for pitched discussion, as it speaks trenchantly to our own times." (Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania) "A splendid historical analysis of how, in light of what we know about the world in the early twenty-first century, we might reconsider the history of that forty-year era of industrial conflict and tepid reform that the author labels the Long Gilded Age." (Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present and The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The American IdeologyChapter 2. Great Strikes RevisitedChapter 3. The University and Industrial ReformChapter 4. Labor's Search for LegitimacyChapter 5. Coming of Age in Internationalist TimesEpilogueNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"[The Long Gilded Age] reflects the author's long consideration and detailed knowledge of foundational developments in United States capitalism and culture during the final decades of the nineteenth century." (Enterprise & Society) "Leon Fink shakes up understandings of U.S. history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-his Long Gilded Age-with unique attention to and global perspective on the contradictions of free labor ideology, the resolution of labor disputes in an age of epic strikes, and the youth culture of American socialism. The Long Gilded Age is ready-made for pitched discussion, as it speaks trenchantly to our own times." (Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania) "A splendid historical analysis of how, in light of what we know about the world in the early twenty-first century, we might reconsider the history of that forty-year era of industrial conflict and tepid reform that the author labels the Long Gilded Age." (Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Leon Fink is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present and The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South.

• IntroductionChapter 1. The American IdeologyChapter 2. Great Strikes RevisitedChapter 3. The University and Industrial ReformChapter 4. Labor's Search for LegitimacyChapter 5. Coming of Age in Internationalist TimesEpilogueNotesIndexAcknowledgments

"[The Long Gilded Age] reflects the author's long consideration and detailed knowledge of foundational developments in United States capitalism and culture during the final decades of the nineteenth century." (Enterprise & Society) "Leon Fink shakes up understandings of U.S. history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-his Long Gilded Age-with unique attention to and global perspective on the contradictions of free labor ideology, the resolution of labor disputes in an age of epic strikes, and the youth culture of American socialism. The Long Gilded Age is ready-made for pitched discussion, as it speaks trenchantly to our own times." (Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania) "A splendid historical analysis of how, in light of what we know about the world in the early twenty-first century, we might reconsider the history of that forty-year era of industrial conflict and tepid reform that the author labels the Long Gilded Age." (Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara)