Year of Award
2019
Document Type
Professional Paper
Degree Type
Master of Arts (MA)
Degree Name
History
Department or School/College
Department of History
Committee Chair
Professor Jeff Wiltse
Commitee Members
Richard Drake, Christopher Muste
Keywords
tariff, Homestead, labor history, political culture, Gilded Age
Publisher
University of Montana
Subject Categories
Labor History | Political History | United States History
Abstract
Members of Congress appropriated the 1892 labor conflict at Homestead, Pennsylvania as a point of partisan rhetorical debate over the ills or benefits of the 1890 McKinley Tariff. This appropriation demonstrated how congress found the tariff in general useful not only for engaging public concerns over industrial era woes like wage insecurity, but also for deflecting public discussion away from an underlying federal helplessness to mitigate those same detrimental effects of industrial capitalism.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Paul T., ""How About the Tariff and Homestead?" Homestead, Tariff Rhetoric, and Wage Insecurity in 1892" (2019). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 11342.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/11342
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