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Class and power in the New Deal : corporate moderates, southern Democrats, and the liberal-labor coalition / G. William Domhoff and Michael J. Webber.
LIBRA E806 .D66 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Domhoff, G. William, author.
- Webber, Michael J., author.
- Series:
- Studies in social inequality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Deal, 1933-1939.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
- Economic policy.
- United States--Social policy.
- Social policy.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 288 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Domhoff (sociology, U. of California at Santa Cruz) and Webber (sociology, U. of San Francisco) seek to explain the New Deal origins and implementation of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act through their theory of class dominance in the United States (rooted in the work of sociologists C. Wright Mills and Michael Mann) as critically compared to three rival theories: historical institutionalism, Marxism, and protest-disruption theory. In essence, they argue that Northern corporate moderates proposed all three major policies (sometimes in response to pressures from organized labor and other leftist activists), that corporate ultraconservatives opposed the policies to little effect because they were not well-represented in Congress, and that the Southern Democrats were able to shape the proposals to fit the needs of plantation capitalists and other large agricultural interests throughout the country. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The power actors
- The Agricultural Adjustment Act
- The National Labor Relations Act
- The Social Security Act
- Aftermath and implementation
- The shortcomings of alternative theories of the New Deal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804774529
- 0804774528
- 9780804774536
- 0804774536
- OCLC:
- 700468598
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