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  • Labor’s Partisans

    Essential Writings on the Union Movement from the 1950s to Today

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein, Samir Sonti ...
    The top writers on labor provide vital historical context for the current upsurge in union organizingIn 1954, the American labor movement reached its historic height, with one-third of all nonagricultural workers belonging to a union—and much higher percentages in the nation’s key industries. That same year, a group of writers and activists, many with close ties to organized labor, founded Dissent ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Fabulous Failure

    The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

    by Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation’s economic and social policies ... Read more

    Was $30.29 USD Now $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Retail Revolution

    How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change meansWal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Labor Unions Matter

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    A lively and informed argument that highlights the continuing importance of unions in both shaping the economy and inspiring social and political activismFrom the coffee shop to the college quad, the trade union idea is once again alive as a new American generation discovers that working-class collective action offers a pathway to both economic security and the fulfillment of some of their most ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • State of the Union

    A Century of American Labor

    by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America
    In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a compelling matrix of ideas, stories, strikes, laws, ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

  • Wal-Mart

    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Fabulous Failure

    The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism

    by Nelson Lichtenstein, Judith Stein ...
    Narrated by Tom Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 36 min

    When Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation's economic and social policies had instead lurched dramatically rightward, exacerbating the inequalities so troubling in our ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Port Huron Statement

    Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto

    Edited by Richard Flacks, Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated over the course of three days in 1962 at a meeting of student leaders, the statement was issued by Students for a Democratic Society as their founding document. Its key idea, "participatory democracy," proved a watchword for Sixties radicalism that ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Corporations and American Democracy

    by Steven A. Bank, Margaret M. Blair, Ruth H. Bloch, Daniel A. Crane, Jessica L. Hennessey, Eric Hilt, Jonathan Levy, Nelson Lichtenstein, Ajay K. Mehrotra, Elizabeth Pollman, John Joseph Wallis, Adam Winkler ...
    Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Capitalism Contested

    The New Deal and Its Legacies

    Edited by Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, Jean-Christian Vinel ...
    In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Capitalism Contested

    The New Deal and Its Legacies

    Edited by Romain Huret, Nelson Lichtenstein, Jean-Christian Vinel ...
    In the historical narrative that prevails today, the New Deal years are positioned between two equally despised Gilded Ages—the first in the late nineteenth century and the second characterized by the world of Walmart, globalization, and right-wing populism in which we currently live. What defines these two ages is an increasing level of inequality legitimized by powerful ideologies, namely, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD