The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle Princeton University Press, 2020 M07 21 - 344 pages The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming. |
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Page xii
... mass retailing, household appliances, medical care, and recreation; but the cumulative size of these new sectors, in terms of investment activity and employment, was simply too small in the 1930s to lead an overall economic recovery ...
... mass retailing, household appliances, medical care, and recreation; but the cumulative size of these new sectors, in terms of investment activity and employment, was simply too small in the 1930s to lead an overall economic recovery ...
Page xiii
... mass consumer society and stripped of a specific class identity. On the other hand, this “mass consumption” coalition encountered opposition, even in the 1930s, on all sides: from conservative sectors of the labor movement; from the ...
... mass consumer society and stripped of a specific class identity. On the other hand, this “mass consumption” coalition encountered opposition, even in the 1930s, on all sides: from conservative sectors of the labor movement; from the ...
Page xvi
... masses of white-collar, corporate workers. Elaine Tyler May's essay “Cold War—Warm Hearth” explores this unprecedented mass focus on consumption as well as the “peculiar,” family-centered form it took in the 1950s. The consumption mania ...
... masses of white-collar, corporate workers. Elaine Tyler May's essay “Cold War—Warm Hearth” explores this unprecedented mass focus on consumption as well as the “peculiar,” family-centered form it took in the 1950s. The consumption mania ...
Page xvii
... mass production economy; its glorification of individual expressiveness in the family compensated for the impersonality of public life; and its infatuation with professionals and scientific expertise partook of the same rationalist ...
... mass production economy; its glorification of individual expressiveness in the family compensated for the impersonality of public life; and its infatuation with professionals and scientific expertise partook of the same rationalist ...
Page xx
... mass culture and mass consumption that “a time of unending affluence and total freedom of choice was at hand,” the young sought to experience a wide range of activities and to explore all aspects of their individuality. Above all, they ...
... mass culture and mass consumption that “a time of unending affluence and total freedom of choice was at hand,” the young sought to experience a wide range of activities and to explore all aspects of their individuality. Above all, they ...
Contents
Toward | 32 |
The Labor Question | 55 |
The New Deal and the Idea of the State | 85 |
Politics and | 153 |
THE NEW DEAL POLITICAL ORDER | 183 |
The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism | 212 |
The Rise of the Silent Majority | 243 |
A Realignment | 269 |
Epilogue | 294 |
Index | 301 |
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