The new Gilded Age
January 06, 2006
During the original Gilded Age, a handful of huge businesses made massive profits from industrialization while the average worker struggled to get by. Nancy Goldstein argues that we are living in a new Gilded Age. Today's robber barons may have made their fortunes in telecommunications instead of railroads, but the overall dynamic is similar.
[Raw Story]
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