Write an essay no shorter than three pages that A) summarize John R Commons life and work and discuss how hislife and work fit into the larger context of the Progressive Era.
Your summary (in response to prompt A) and your argument (in response to part B) need not be separate. In other words, you may integrate your summary into your argument.
Cite specific historical evidence (from inside and outside your assigned chapter) to support your argument. You will not be able to include all of the information in the chapter, nor address all of the ways it relates to the Progressive Era; your task is to select and summarize the information and relationships that best represent the key issues, ideas, and trends of the time period.
You may want to consider how your chapter relates to the following themes:
- big business, the concentration of wealth, and poverty
- labor and the labor movement
- immigration and immigrants
- women and women’s rights
- race and racial equality
- corruption and efficiency in government
- forms of civic and democratic participation
- the role of science and the social sciences
- summarizes the life and work of the historical figure presented in your assigned chapter from Civic Passions (Tichi 2009) and B) discusses how that figure’s life and work fit into the larger context of the Progressive Era.
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