Stayin’ Alive (eBook)

The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson Cowie (Autor)

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2010
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-59558-532-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historianA wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive bookpart political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television loreCowie, with ';an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech' (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: afl cio • Bruce Springsteen • culture war • decline of unions • Disco • George McGovern • hard hat riot • Jimmy Carter • Labor history • opec oil crisis • Political Analysis • Political History • Powell memo • racial animus • Reaganomics • Rick Perlstein • Ronald Reagan • uaw • working class history
• ISBN-10: 1-59558-532-X / 159558532X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-532-5 / 9781595585325