Stayin' Alive
Subtitle: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
By: Jefferson Cowie
Publisher: New Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781565848757
Subjects: Social conditions; Working class; Economic conditions; History
Description: Asserts that the 1970s were the last stand of the American working class, a time when the goals of the New Deal finally faded away to make room for Reaganomics and a widening of the gap between classes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: Old fashioned heroes of the new working class; title: What kind of delegation is this?; title: Nixon's class struggle; title: I'm dyin' here; title: A collective sadness; title: The New Deal that never happened; title: The important sound of things falling apart; title: Dead man's town.