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  • Class and Power in the New Deal

    Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition

    by G. William Domhoff, Michael J. Webber ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Class and Power in the New Deal

    Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition

    by G. William Domhoff, Michael J. Webber ...
    Series series Studies in Social Inequality
    Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    by Mehrsa Baradaran ...
    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Read more

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  • The Big Myth

    How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

    by Naomi Oreskes, Mr Erik M. Conway ...
    “[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late.”-EsquireThe bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the myth of the "free market."In their landmark book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the ori... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

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  • The Great Depression And The New Deal: A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Rauchway ...
    The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression lay in America's post-war economic policies--described ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • American Amnesia

    How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper

    by Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson ...
    A “provocative” (Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what’s good for American business and what’s good for Americans—and why those interests are misaligned.In American Amnesia, bestselling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Poor People's Movements

    Why They Succeed, How They Fail

    by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward ...
    Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great ... Read more

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  • Why Unions Matter

    by Michael D. Yates ...
    In this new edition of Why Unions Matter, Michael D. Yates shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and respect; and at their best, they provide a way for workers to make society both more democratic and egalitarian. Yates uses simple language, clear data, and engaging examples to ... Read more

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  • People Get Ready

    The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

    by Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols ...
    Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour -- or its greatest momentThe consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling. The end of work as we know it will hit at the worst moment imaginable: as capitalism fosters permanent ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rich Don't Always Win

    The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970

    by Sam Pizzigati ...
    The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Prisoners of the American Dream

    Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    This comprehensive study of class struggle in America asks: Why has there never been a mass working class party in the U.S.?“One of the most uncompromising books about American political economy ever written—brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched.” —Village VoicePrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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