Just around the corner : the paradox of the jobless recovery / Stanley Aronowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aronowitz, Stanley.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment--United States--History--20th century.

Unemployment.

Labor--United States.

Labor.

Income distribution--United States.

Income distribution.

United States--Economic policy.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Americans have always believed that economic growth leads to job growth. In this groundbreaking analysis, Stanley Aronowitz argues that this is no longer true. Just Around the Corner examines the state of the American economy as planned by Democrats and Republicans over the last thirty years. Aronowitz finds that economic growth has become ""delinked"" from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of our economy. He traces the historical roots of this state of affairs and sees under the surface of booms and busts a continuum of economic aust

Contents:

CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction; ONE: How We Got Here; TWO: The Reagan Revolution, the Clinton "Boom," and the Downsizing of America; THREE: It's the Technology, Stupid; FOUR: The Price of Neoliberal Globalization; FIVE: A Real Jobs and Income Program; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-156) and index.

ISBN:

9786611093877

9781281093875

1281093874

9781592131396

1592131395

OCLC:

243606686