Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. By Andrew  Barry. New York: Athlone, 2001.

2002 ◽  
Vol 108 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-240
Author(s):  
Damian Tambini
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
Political Machines

P. R. and Municipal Reform

1943 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-102
Author(s):  
F.A. Hermens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
City Government ◽  
Political Machines ◽  
Municipal Reform ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
Historical Basis

Treatises on political machines in the United States too often suffer from a lack of historical perspective. Machine government is due to factors peculiar to certain periods in American history, and it is doomed to disappear when its historical basis disintegrates. Since the details of this matter have been discussed previously, let us only review the important phases of the struggle for reform. Between the Civil War and the 1890s political machines—some of which had begun to develop early in the Nineteenth Century—reached the peak of their power; these were “the dark ages of city government”. During the 1890s the reform forces began to wrestle with the “bosses” on even terms; they developed organizations and adopted techniques which helped them to overcome the isolation and the haphazard character of their early efforts. During the 1920s and the 1930s the victories of reform became accentuated; resounding defeats of individual machines recurred, and it looked like the beginning of a rout of the institution. To mention but a few: the Cox-Hynicka machine in Cincinnati fell in 1924; the Maschke machine in Cleveland received blows in the 1920s to which it finally succumbed in the 1930s; in New York, Tammany went down in 1933, and whereas the five reform administrations which New York had witnessed since 1871 all enjoyed only one two-year term each, La Guardia was elected to three four-year terms in succession.

Capitalism

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Scaff
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
New York ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Jane Addams ◽  
Political Machines ◽  
Big City ◽  
The Face ◽  
The City

This chapter examines how Max Weber's time in Chicago shaped his views on capitalism. Chicago in 1904 was the world's fifth largest urban center (behind London, New York, Paris, and Berlin). The city was a new industrial and commercial magnet and transportation hub, with a rapidly increasing working class and major labor, public health, and social issues. The chapter first considers Weber's impressions of Chicago before discussing his thoughts on political reform and the consequences of it in the face of corruption, rule by bosses, and the big city political machines. It then describes the Webers' visit to Hull House and their interest in the Women's Trade Union League, a chapter of the association founded by Jane Addams. It also analyzes Weber's opinion regarding the conditions of the working class in the stockyards, along with his notion of character as social capital.

Networks—New York Subways, A Piece of String, and African Traditions

1981 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Claudia Zaslavsky
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
First Century ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Technological Society ◽  
Mathematics Educators ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century

Children now growing up in our rapidly advancing technological society must be prepared to cope with problems that will arise not only in this century but also in the twenty-first century. Yet we ourselves do not know what kind of society today's children will face in the future. The best we as mathematics educators can do is to encourage children to deal with new situations, to be unafraid of challenges, and to learn to think.

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