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9781859842485

Prisoners of the American Dream Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class

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    9781859842485

  • ISBN10:

    1859842488

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-17
  • Publisher: VERSO

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Summary

Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis attempts to answer the question: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class?

Author Biography

Mike Davis is the author of several books including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, and Magical Urbanism. He was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He lives in Papa’aloa, Hawaii.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Part One: Labor and American Politics
Why the American Working Class is Different
3(49)
The Barren Marriage of American Labor and the Democratic Party
52(50)
The Fall of the House of Labor
102(55)
Part Two: The Age of Reagan
The New Right's Road to Power
157(24)
The Political Economy of Late Imperial America
181(50)
Reaganomics' Magical Mystery Tour
231(25)
The Lesser Evil? The Left, the Democrats and 1984
256(45)
Epilogue: Inventing the American Left 301

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