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RUNNING STEEL, RUNNING AMERICA
RACE, ECONOMIC POLICY, AND THE DECLINE OF LIBERALISM |
| By: |
Judith Stein |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£49.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0807847275 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780807847275 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 October, 1998 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
This text uses the steel industry to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War I, arguing that the primacy of foreign committments and outdated economic policies of state transformed American liberalism from the progressivism of the New Deal to the policies of the 1990s. |
| Synopsis: |
The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses the steel industry--long considered fundamental to the U.S. economy--to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, she argues that it was the primacy of foreign commitments and the outdated economic policies of the state, more than the nation's racial conflicts, that transformed American liberalism from the powerful progressivism of the New Deal to the feeble policies of the 1990s. Stein skillfully integrates a number of narratives usually treated in isolation--labor, civil rights, politics, business, and foreign policy--while underscoring the state's focus on the steel industry and its workers. By showing how those who intervened in the industry treated such economic issues as free trade and the globalization of steel production in isolation from the social issues of the day--most notably civil rights and the implementation of affirmative action--Stein advances a larger argument about postwar liberalism. Liberal attempts to address social inequalities without reference to the fundamental and changing workings of the economy, she says, have led to the foundering of the New Deal state. |Using the steel industry to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II, Stein shows that economic policy--not racial conflict--led to the feeble liberalism of the 1990s. |
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US |
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The University of North Carolina Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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