The creative society--and the price Americans paid for it / Louis Galambos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galambos, Louis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability in business--United States--History.

Creative ability in business.

Professional employees--United States--History.

Professional employees.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Summary:

"The Creative Society is the first history to look at modern America through the eyes of its emerging ranks of professional experts, including lawyers, scientists, doctors, administrators, business managers, teachers, policy specialists, and urban planners. Covering the period from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century, Louis Galambos examines the history that shaped professionals and, in turn, their role in shaping modern America. He considers the roles of education, anti-Semitism, racism, and elitism in shaping and defining the professional cadre and examines how matters of gender, race, and ethnicity determined whether women, African Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East were admitted to the professional ranks. He also discusses the role professionals played in urbanizing the United States, keeping the economy efficient and innovative, showing the government how to provide the people a greater measure of security and equity, and guiding the world's leading industrial power in coping with its complex, frequently dangerous foreign relations"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 1931 1

2 Life, Death, and Learning in the Cities 6

3 Toward a New Economy, 1890 to 1930 22

4 State Crafting - American Style 41

5 Confronting the World 60

6 Winners and Losers, 1890 to 1930 77

7 New Deal Experiments 54

8 Fighting on God's Side 113

9 The New Aristocracy, 1946 to 1969 132

10 The Suburban Conquest of the 1960s 151

11 Empire in the American Century 166

12 The Tattered Empire of the 1970s 183

13 The Cracked Core 202

14 The American Solution, 1981 to 2001 220

15 Conservatism: Rhetoric and Realities, 1981 to 2001 239

16 The Hegemony Trap 256

17 The American Dream, 1981 to 2001 273

18 The Creative Society in Danger 290.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107013179

1107013178

9781107600997

1107600995

OCLC:

739646426