id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3482 Gilded Age - Wikipedia .html text/html 17907 1996 68 The average annual wage per industrial worker (including men, women, and children) rose from $380 in 1880, to $564 in 1890, a gain of 48%.[1] Conversely, the Gilded Age was also an era of abject poverty and inequality, as millions of immigrants—many from impoverished regions—poured into the United States, and the high concentration of wealth became more visible and contentious.[2] The book (co-written with Charles Dudley Warner) satirized the promised "golden age" after the Civil War, portrayed as an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding of economic expansion.[5] In the 1920s and '30s the metaphor "Gilded Age" began to be applied to a designated period in American history. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3482.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3482.txt