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Wealth Against Commonwealth by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847 - 1903)
Genre(s): Business & Economics, Political Science
Read by: Bryan Travis in English
Parts:
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 17 - Chapter XIV: 'I Want to Make Oil', Part 1
00:19:38 - 18 - Chapter XIV: 'I Want to Make Oil', Part 2
00:40:31 - 19 - Chapter XV: Sympathetical Co-operation
01:10:52 - 20 - Chapter XVI: 'Turn Another Screw'
01:46:13 - 21 - Chapter XVII: In the Interest of All
02:24:00 - 22 - Chapter XVIII: Ordinary Supply and Demand
02:54:28 - 23 - Chapter XIX: Through the Woman's Eyes
03:28:57 - 24 - Chapter XX: Taken from the Jury by the Judge
04:00:29 - 25 - Chapter XXI: Crime Cheaper Than Competition
04:36:41 - 26 - Chapter XXII: Another Tale of Two Cities
05:11:29 - 27 - Chapter XXIII: Freedom of the City
05:44:09 - 28 - Chapter XXIV: High Finance
06:17:56 - 29 - Chapter XXV: A Sunday in June
06:42:50 - 30 - Chapter XXVI: Toledo Victor, Part 1
Wealth Against Commonwealth documented the economic, social, and political harms of the oil and railroad monopolies during the United States Gilded Age from the 1870s to the 1890s. By concentrating and controlling large sums of wealth, power, and goods among a few corporations and industrialists, journalist and author Henry Demarest Lloyd argued monopolies threaten the well-being of society and democracy, the 'common wealth.'Through personal interviews, investigative reporting, court and legislative records, Lloyd revealed how the oil and railroad trusts, among others, actively suppressed competition and sought to control the supply of commodities to increase demand and prices artificially. Lloyd presented evidence from all levels of economic scale and stakeholders, from independent oil producers and refiners to transportation industries, from small towns to nations, from state and local courts to national legislatures.Henry Demarest Lloyd was a political activist and investigative journalist, or 'muckraker.' His activism, criticism of monopolies, and support of organized labor advanced the Progressive Movement. While writing Wealth Against Commonwealth, he reflected on the toll the work had taken on him in a letter to his mother, 'It keeps me poking about and scavenging in piles of filthy human greed and cruelty almost too nauseous to handle. Nothing but the sternest sense of duty and the conviction that men must understand the vices of our present system before they will be able to rise to a better, drives me back to my desk every day.' (Summary by Bryan Travis)