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 ix
... workers and wealthy capitalists in its coalition; why the 'labor question' lost its central importance in American politics almost from the day the labor movement finally achieved some enduring political power; how a liberalism so ...
... workers and wealthy capitalists in its coalition; why the 'labor question' lost its central importance in American politics almost from the day the labor movement finally achieved some enduring political power; how a liberalism so ...
Page xiii
... workers would find themselves integrated into a 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 ...
... workers would find themselves integrated into a 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 ...
Page xv
... workers full employment, high wages, and adequate welfare provisions. They drew their ultimate justification from the stimulus that such a welfare state would give capitalism through the dramatic expansion in levels of personal ...
... workers full employment, high wages, and adequate welfare provisions. They drew their ultimate justification from the stimulus that such a welfare state would give capitalism through the dramatic expansion in levels of personal ...
Page xvi
... worker, the semiskilled operative, whose modicum of skill commanded some respect and whom employers strenuously tried to acclimate to the hierarchical, bureaucratic character of the modern workplace. These workers, who formed the ...
... worker, the semiskilled operative, whose modicum of skill commanded some respect and whom employers strenuously tried to acclimate to the hierarchical, bureaucratic character of the modern workplace. These workers, who formed the ...
Page xvii
... workers—made home life seem correspondingly individualized and free. Second, the cumulative shock of depression, world war, cold war, and the threat of nuclear annihilation inclined individual Americans to forsake the frightening public ...
... workers—made home life seem correspondingly individualized and free. Second, the cumulative shock of depression, world war, cold war, and the threat of nuclear annihilation inclined individual Americans to forsake the frightening public ...
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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