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The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare system, became increasingly interested not merely in identifying problems, but in prescribing means by which to effect social change. This book is an effort to identify the various influences upon critical thinkers, and to examine their approaches to solving the social problems of the time

The Progressive Era in the United States, lasting from about 1890 to 1925, was a period of tremendous social, economic, and political change. Labor unrest, political turmoil, economic crises, and societal disintegration threatened the stability of the capitalist system and the integrity of the democratic political structure. The previous reliance on decentralized political authority and a belief in the self-correcting market was challenged by a new social philosophy which was focused on the need for social control.