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Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
Häftad, 2017
218 kr
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Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and …
Capital Moves
RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Inbunden, 1999
845 kr
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Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this …
Beyond the Ruins
The Meanings of Deindustrialization
Av Jefferson Cowie, Joseph Heathcott
Häftad, 2003
476 kr
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The immediate impact of deindustrialization—the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities—has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume, the authors seek to move discussion of America's industrial decline beyond the immediate …
Great Exception
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
E-bok, 2016
286 kr
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How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and culture Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception , …
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)
A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Häftad, 2024
219 kr
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way American freedom is …
Stayin' Alive
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Häftad, 2012
254 kr
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Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present. Cowie also …
