This week at In The Past Lane, the history podcast, it’s Part 2 of our multi-episode examination of the Gilded Age - a hard look at the era’s dark side and rising fears of: 1) the US regressing toward a European-style society dominated by an entrenched aristocracy 2) the rise of powerful corporations and the extraordinary political power wielded by industrialists 4) diminishing upward mobility 4) the troubling arrogance of industrialists 5) and the soaring incidence of labor-capital conflict.