Book Review 5
4/11/17
The Search for Order: 1877-1920
Wiebe, Robert H. The Search for Order:1877-1920. New York: Hill and Wang, 1967.
Robert Wiebe’s book, The Search for Order: 1877-1920, explains the economic influences linked with industrialization and urbanization in the latter part of the nineteenth century that were significant and interconnected separating the autonomy of the former ways of American life and restored with a more bureaucratic type of administration. Wiebe’s book was essentially written for an academic audience. The collapse of the small town way of living that revolved around Protestant personal relationships, the business of the family budget, and work ethic created apprehension at the local level and …show more content…
This surge of progressive reformers was driven by the city inhabitants because they witnessed the most alteration at a swift pace. The middle-class specialists were made up of lawyers, medical professionals, and teachers among others and were undoubtedly combined in pursuing resolutions to all of the obstacles of the time but instead an advent. They inquired bureaucratic national regulation that depended on scientific organization and logic in order to better allocate the current economy, and Weibe saw a chance to maintain their spot in modern America (130). Weibe explains that progressives comprehended the demand for fixed prices, statistics, and scientific administration, and organizations to preserve licenses and assistance that would not just protect their occupations but would also magnify the quality of virtuoso’s that would also assist customers. Progressives understood that the adjustments they needed would best be protected by nationalized legislation such as the American Medical Association and the Federal Trade Commission. Weibe implies that the progressives brought in both continuation and reform, and cities improvements in the occupation of medicine, education, and law as illustrations of how progressive reform benefitted society and experts themselves. The progressives introduced another proposition to organizing political, social, and economic matters and believed that Teddy Roosevelt was relatively useful to encourage the sort of legislation they required. His radical method and his potential to advance national legislation permitted the progressives to fulfill a multitude of reforms. Weibe implies that Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt ushered the ideology of progressive logic to Washington and explains that the progressive strategy such as the Federal Reserve Act to control environmental conservation, railroad regulation,