Stayin' alive: the 1970s and the last days of the working class

"A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning 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...

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1. Verfasser: Cowie, Jefferson (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London The New Press 2012
Ausgabe:Paperback edition
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Zusammenfassung:"A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning 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 book - part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and television lore - Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from the rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present." Klappentext
Beschreibung:Introduction: Something's happening to people like me -- Book one: 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 dyin' here -- Book two: 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
Beschreibung:464 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781595587077

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