Furs to Furrows: An Epic of Rugged Individualism

1940 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Ora B. Peake ◽  
Sydney Greenbie
Keyword(s):  
Rugged Individualism

scholarly journals “Rugged individualism” and collective (in)action during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 104357
Author(s):  
Samuel Bazzi ◽  
Martin Fiszbein ◽  
Mesay Gebresilasse
Keyword(s):  
Rugged Individualism

Improving Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Delton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Association ◽  
American Industry ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Trade Associations ◽  
New Form ◽  
Rugged Individualism ◽  
Decentralized Government

This chapter considers how a group of six hundred manufacturers met in Cincinnati in January 1895 to address the challenges of their day, including deep depression, falling prices, and cutthroat competition. Manufacturers saw overproduction as the primary cause of their woes and had two responses to it. First, they turned to the promise of foreign markets, both to offload surpluses and find new markets. And second, they tried to find ways to subvert the debilitating effects of competition through cooperation and planning, first in the form of unworkable “pools” and “gentlemen's agreements” and eventually, more legitimately, in the form of trade associations. These manufacturers were creating an organization that would pursue both strategies, thereby facilitating the modernization of American industry and government. The result was the “corporate reconstruction of capitalism”: a new form of capitalism based on cooperation, rationality, and long-term planning superseded a nineteenth-century proprietary capitalism based on competition, “rugged individualism,” and decentralized government. Trade associations like the National Association of Manufacturers were key to this transition.

Reflections of the Impact of Umunthu/Ubuntu on My Upbringing

2021 ◽  
pp. 52-67
Author(s):  
Augustine Chingwala Musopole
Keyword(s):  
Hard Work ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
The West ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
Rugged Individualism ◽  
The Impact

The idea of Ubuntu meaning humanness is contrasted with that of unyama meaning beastliness. Analytically, Ubuntu touches on integrity, wisdom, hard work or economic productivity, social solidarity as a people who are in relationship as constitutive of their identity as opposed to rugged individualism. This leads to a philosophy that is very different from that which has developed in the West. Therefore, the upbringing that was shaped by the author's mother and the communal ethos insisted on that which characterized Ubuntu.

Is Rugged Individualism the Whole Story? Public and Private Accounts of a Firm's Founding

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Durnell Cramton
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Family Systems Theory ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Retail Sales ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rugged Individualism

This article compares public and private accounts of the creation of a retail sales business. The two sets of accounts are examined from the perspectives of literature on entrepreneurial activity and literature on family systems theory. The two theoretical perspectives explain the salience of different facts regarding the founding of the business. The article also questions the legitimacy of privileging certain types of accounts of business foundings over other types.

There's more than rugged individualism in coping. Part 2: Construct validity and further model testing

1998 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine Monnier ◽  
Stevan E. Hobfoll ◽  
Carla L. Dunahoo ◽  
Michael R. Hulsizer ◽  
Robert Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Model Testing ◽  
Rugged Individualism

Notes Toward a Reappraisal of Depression Literature

Prospects ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 197-239
Author(s):  
Amy Godine
Keyword(s):  
Great Depression ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Rugged Individualism

In a movie directed by Frank Capra toward the end of the Great Depression, an enterprising lady reporter with an eye for the photogenic persuades a down-and-out ballplayer to act the part of “John Doe,” “author” of her new syndicated front-page column, “I Protest!” The speeches that Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) pays the handsome hobo (Gary Cooper) to front are, if slightly sentimental, always provocative and immediately successful. They inveigh against the petty self-interest that in the name of rugged individualism has weakened and corrupted the cause of the common citizen in this country; they plead for a new spirit of grass-roots cooperative activism. “Tear down the fences,” John Doe implores his small-town audiences. “You're the hope of the world!”

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