Politics and Jobs

Margaret Weir is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. With Ira Katznelson, she is the coauthor of Schooling for All: Class, Race and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (Basic Books/University of California).

"Politics and Jobs establishes a new landmark in the study of economic and social policies in the United States. Weir's insightful and analytically powerful book will be widely read and cited for years."—William Julius Wilson, University of Chicago

• List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1Innovations and Boundaries in American Policymaking32Creating an American Keynesianism273Race and Politics of Poverty624Public Employment and the Politics of "Corruption"995The Political Collapse of Full Employment1306Policy Boundaries and Political Possibilities163Notes181Index231