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The growth of large-scale industry and underconsumption caused bitter labor conflicts and economic instability during the Gilded Age. The solution to this dilemma, argued both President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and a new generation of economists eager to shape national response to "the labor question," lay in granting workers' demands for "more." More was, in part, an economic demand for higher wages and shorter hours for workers. More income and leisure time would also, economists and labor spokesmen predicted, help alleviate the problem of underconsumption. Rosanne Currarino shows that Gompers and the economists understood more as an answer to an even broader array of social crises because demands for it were also demands for "all" that was "essential to the exercise and enjoyment of liberty."

What was the role of law and lawyers in the civil rights movement? Recent work has emphasized a tension between the legal strategies of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and a commitment to mass movement politics and economic populism. . . .

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