G. William Domhoff

The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century (eBook, ePUB)

How They Won, Why Liberals and Labor Lost

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates exactly how the corporate rich developed and implemented the policies and government structures that allowed them to dominate America in the 20th-century. Written with unparalleled insight, Domhoff offers a remarkable look into the nature of power during a pivotal time, with added significance for the current era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000011746
• Artikelnr.: 57070710

Autorenporträt

G. William Domhoff is the author or co-author of 16 books on the American power structure, four of which appeared on a list of the top-50 best-sellers in sociology from the 1950s through the early 1990s, including his now-classic, Who Rules America? He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Sociology and remains active as a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Who Rules America? was published in a revised and updated version in 2014 and has been in print and used in many classrooms for 52 years.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Section I. The Rise and Fall of Labor Unions 1. The Uphill
Battle for Unionism from the 1820s to 1932 2. The Origins of the National
Labor Relations Act of 1935 3. Stronger Unions, A Weaker National Labor
Relations Act 4. Union Victories, Corporate Pushback in the 1960s 5. The
Corporate Moderates Reorganize to Defeat Unions, 1969-1985 Section II. How
the Corporate Moderates Created Social Insurance Programs, and Later Tried
to Undermine Them 6. The Origins of the Social Security Act 7. Revising and
Augmenting Social Security, 1937-1973 8. Social Disruption, New Social
Benefits, and then Cutbacks 9. The Circuitous Path to the Affordable Care
Act, 1974-2010 Section III. The Rise of an International Economic System,
1939-2000 10. The Council on Foreign Relations and World Trade 11. The
Grand Area and the International Monetary Fund 12. The Grand Area Strategy
and the Vietnam War 13. Rebuilding Europe in the Face of Ultraconservative
Resistance, 1945-1967 14. From Turmoil to the World Trade Organization,
1968-2000 15. The Shortcomings of Alternative Theories Archival Sources
Consulted References