Stayin' Alive The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Name: Stayin' Alive The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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ISBN: 9781565848757

ISBN-10: 1565848756

ISBN-13: 9781565848757

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jefferson Cowie

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Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 9/14/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.58" long x 1.43" tall
Weight: 1.782



Introduction: Something's Happening to People Like Me



Hope in the Confusion, 1968-1974



Old Fashioned Heroes of the New Working Class



What Kind of Delegation Is This?



Nixon's Class Struggle



I'm Dying Here



Despair in the Order, 1974-1982



A Collective Sadness



The New Deal that Never Happened



The Important Sound of Things Falling Apart



Dead Man's Town


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index