This term was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, published in 1873. The term refers to the gilding of a cheaper metal with a thin layer of gold. Historians view the Gilded Age as a period of rapid economic, technological, political, and social transformation.
<h2>Socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. ... According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another.</h2>
