Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index.
Contents
"He who merits victory" : liberal republicanism and the crisis of the 1890s -- "To serve as a medium of acquaintance and sympathy" : the Civic Federation and conflicting visions of democratic social knowledge -- "To add the social function to democracy" : Jane Addams, Hull House, and democratic social knowledge -- "Such a piece of business folly" : labor arbitration and class struggles over democratic social knowledge -- "The struggle is bound to take in the Negro" : race and democratic social knowledge -- "Drawn on rational and scientific lines" : the fate of democratic social knowledge -- Epilogue.