Corporate capitalism’s rise shaped the Progressive Movement in American schooling
Evidence
The change from an entrepreneurial capitalism to its modem corporate form, we shall argue, was reflected in educational policy and theory. If the birth of the factory system fueled the nineteenth-century common-school movement which molded mass primary education, the rise of the corporate economy fostered the twentieth century Progressive Movement which lent modern secondary education its characteristic stamp. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 654
Categorization
- XREF: Connects the broader Bowles-Gintis thesis about schooling reproducing capitalist social relations to the specific historical hinge between factory-era primary schooling and corporate-era secondary schooling. — connects to: Horace Mann saw schooling as the sole counter to capitalist class domination — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 333; Early American education reformers aimed to pacify the poor rather than end poverty — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 371; Even progressive educators preserved top-down control over children. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 489 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Capitalist-class objectives, not reformer ideals, have actually shaped US schooling
#corroborates(0.95) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 569 - US schooling founders aimed at social control amid capitalist inequality, not equality
#corroborates(0.90) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 363 - Education’s centrality in American reform reflects accommodation to capitalism, not ideology
#corroborates(0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 283 - Profit imperatives, not human capacities, shape American schooling
#corroborates(0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1158 - Public schooling in America was founded to produce a properly subordinate adult population
#corroborates(0.80) - US educational reform responded to the social unrest of new wage laborers
#qualifies(0.78) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 617 - Capitalist development required the active re-education and moralization of working-class culture
#expands(0.75) - Capitalist formation required the continuous re-education and cultural remaking of working people
#expands(0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 993 - Mass culture and mass markets were integral to corporate capitalism’s ascendancy
#expands(0.72) - Progressive school reforms failed because their goals contradict under corporate capitalism
#contradicts(0.70) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 547