Late Nineteenth Century
Urban Culture
and
Political Economy
New Immigrants
-Southern and Eastern Europe
-Italians
-Jews
-Slavs
-Poles
-Czechs
Working Conditions
-Living Conditions
Politics
-Bosses
-Tammany Hall (NYC)
-George Washington Plunkitt
-Honest Graft
Social Darwinism
-Charles
Darwin,Origin of Species (1859)
-Adapt to Environment
-Natural Selection
-Herbert Spencer
-Survival of the Fittest
-William Graham
Sumner,
-What the Social Classes Owe Each Other (1883)
Laissez-Faire Capitalism
-Adam Smith, Wealth
of Nations (1776)
-Self-Love (Selfishness, Self-Interest)
-Invisible Hand
Gospel of Wealth
-Andrew
Carnegie,
-"Wealth" North American Review (1889)
-Gospel of Wealth (1901)
-"Godliness is in League with Riches"
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