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Work, Capitalism, and Democracy : The United States since the New Deal.

De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online

De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2026
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy.
Series:
American Business, Politics, and Society Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Labor--United States--History--20th century.
Labor--United States--History--21st century.
Capitalism--United States--History--20th century.
Capitalism--United States--History--21st century.
United States--Economic policy--20th century.
United States--Economic policy--21st century.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--21st century.
United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
United States--Economic conditions--21st century.
Essays.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (319 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026.
Summary:
No detailed description available for "Work, Capitalism, and Democracy".
Contents:
Cover
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I. The New Deal andIts Contested Order
Chapter 1. "The Nine Judges Have Gone Home": Liberals, the 1949 "Closed Shop Cases," and the Undermining of Union Democracy
Chapter 2. "The Credit Problem Is Our Biggest Labor Problem": Labor and the Making of Monetary Policy
Part II. Postwar Discontent
Chapter 3. "The Magnanimity of Disorder": Counterculture Intellectuals and the Rise of Anti-Statist Thought in Late Twentieth-Century America
Chapter 4. Cheater in Chief: Presidential Taxpaying and Fiscal Citizenship
Chapter 5. McGovernites and Neocons: Michael Harrington, Max Shachtman, and the Realignment of the Democratic Party
Chapter 6. Gender Gap: Bella Abzug and Mim Kelber's Labor Feminist Critique of American Politics in the Late Twentieth Century
Part III. Adrift in a New World Order
Chapter 7. "We're Taking All the Risks and They're Getting All the Profits": Capitalism, Labor, and Democracy in the Wastelands of Southeastern Louisiana
Chapter 8. From the "Labor Question" to the "Immigration Question": Newcomers, Politics, and Democracy in the Contemporary United States
Chapter 9. Management and Power in Global Supply Chains: The Need for History in an Ahistorical Field
Part IV. Historicizing the Politics andCulture of the New Deal Order
Chapter 10. "A Working-Class Hero Is Something to Be": Popular Culture and the Manufacture of "Labor"
Chapter 11. From Labor History to Political Economy: A Reassessment of Work, Capital, and Democracy
Afterword
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
1-5128-2872-6
OCLC:
1535355051

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