Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie

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



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Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class Jefferson R. Cowie ebook
Language: English
Page: 488
Format: epub
ISBN: 1595587071, 9781595587077
Publisher: New Press, The

There is no question that recent decades have been tough times for the so-called working class. The decline in power and influence of organized labor, foreign competition in industries like automotive and steel, and the shift to a service-oriented economy have eroded the chances for many workers to maintain the benefits of a middle-class lifestyle. Cowie charts this decline in a wide-ranging survey that moves from factory floors to union halls to the upper levels of corporate, union, and government bureaucracies. To his credit, Cowie doesn’t allow broad themes to obscure the price paid by individual workers, and the testimonies of those who saw their economic position being squeezed is both disturbing and moving. Cowie’s sympathies are obvious, and this is far from a balanced account. From the auto plants to mines to farm fields, he shows workers victimized by corporate greed and distant union and government officials. Still, as a portrayal of a decade that saw a great shift in the status of millions of people, this work is a valuable piece of social history. --Jay Freeman --This text refers to the edition. “Will long stand as the finest and most sophisticated portrait of politics and culture in the American 1970s.”
—E.J. Dionne

“Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade … Cowie’s book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period.”
—Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent

“One of the best books of 2010.”
—Joan Walsh, Salon

“Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E.P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class.”
—Steven Colatrella, New Politics MORE EBOOKS:







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