Privilege and Democracy in America

Frederic C. Howe

[1910]

• Title Page
• Preface
• Contents

• Chapter 1:
  The Lure of the Land
• Chapter 2:
  The Economic Foundations of Democracy
• Chapter 3:
  The Rape of the Nation
• Chapter 4:
  The Strangle Hold of Monopoly
• Chapter 5:
  The Tools of Privilege
• Chapter 6:
  The New Serfdom
• Chapter 7:
  Some of the Costs of Tenancy
• Chapter 8:
  The Evolution of Serfdom
• Chapter 9:
  The Tyranny of the Dead
• Chapter 10:
  The Servitude of To-Morrow
• Chapter 11:
  The Unearned Increment
• Chapter 12:
  A Feudal Survival
• Chapter 13:
  "From Him That Hath Not Shall Be Taken Away Even That Which He Hath"
• Chapter 14:
  Some of the Costs of Land Monopoly
• Chapter 15:
  The Future of Labor
• Chapter 16:
  The Distribution of Wealth
• Chapter 17:
  The Ascendancy of Privilege
• Chapter 18:
  An Overlooked Cause of Poverty
• Chapter 19:
  The Cause of Civilization and Decay
• Chapter 20:
  The Economic Foundations of Morals
• Chapter 21:
  The Remedy Proposed
• Chapter 22:
  The Remedy Considered
• Chapter 23:
  The New Dispensation
• Chapter 24:
  The Open Door and the Open Highway
• Chapter 25:
  The Democracy of To-Morrow

• Appendix I:
  Land Values in the United States
• Appensix II:
  The Sufficiency of the Land Values Tax
• Index