Title: The breaking of the American social compact
First published: 1997
Description: Piven and Cloward demonstrate that under the banner of "globalization," a mobilized American business class is driving down wages and benefits, breaking unions, weakening civil rights, and slashing programs that protect the disadvantaged - all at a time when income and wealth inequality has reached historic extremes.

They argue that business elites' claim that ordinary people must make due with less because of the imperatives of the global markets is a hoax, and that the effort to dismantle the social compact should instead be understood as an ideologically powered political mobilization by business.
Subjects: Social conditions, Politics and government, Social contract, Working class, New York Times reviewed, United states, social conditions, 1980-, United states, economic conditions, 1981-2001, United states, social conditions
Places: United States
Time periods: 1960-1980, 20th century, 1980-
LC classification: HN57 .P58 1997