Populism-Democratic+Process

LM - In //Populism: Democratic Process,// Goodwyn presents the Gilded Age as an era where Americans beacme disgruntled with the evolving applications of domocratic principle, particularly in relevance to the agrarian economy. The success of large corporations began to encroach upon the satisfactory subsistence of western farmers. Struggling for several pages with defining exact parameters limiting the Populist movement, it was finally concluded that the Populist Movement constituted of farmer's guilds, or trade blocks, that arose in response to big buiness' growing dominence in the free, "democratic" market.

Aside from the didactic investigation into what the definition of the populist movement of the Gilded Age acctually was, this piece porovides a thorough analysis as to how, why, and where the populist movement was created. Quite simply, western Americans were becoming increasingly unhappy that their stable economic decentralization was no longer assured. The free market, it seemed, was failing to maintain adequate distribution of opportunity to find buisness success. Western Americans thought a ravenous economic monster, the corporation, had been let loose to devour the farmer's market rights and success. This point in American history again confirms Jefferson's yeoman-nation dream was not permanently achieveable; rather, any static state of the economy allowed Americans to be outcompeted by evolving and improving markets around the world. The corporation was one such part of American economic evolution. Responding to the corporation, the western farmers created a form of guilds (the most significant of which was the National Farmers Alliance) to coordinate competition of the little farmers against that of the huge buisness producers. It is important to note these agrarian guilds preceded the creation of formal labor unions, as unions were sparked two decades after the guild movement in the west. A very influential turning point for American economic progression, the Guilded Age had its roots in the agrarian farmers of the west.

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