G. Williams Domhoff

Myth of Liberal Ascendancy (eBook, ePUB)

Corporate Dominance from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on new archival research, argues that the 'New Deal' era in the US was one of corporate dominance rather than progressive reform.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317255802
• Artikelnr.: 49352517

Autorenporträt

G. William Domhoff is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and a Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he has taught since 1965. He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books on power, politics, and social change in America, starting with Who Rules America? (1967) and The Higher Circles (1970), along with The Powers That Be (1979) and The Power Elite and the State (1990). His most recent books are The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz (with Richard Gendron, 2009); Class and Power in the New Deal: Corporate Moderates, Southern Democrats, and the Liberal-Labor Coalition (with Michael J. Webber, 2011); The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies (with Richard L. Zweigenhaft, 2011); and Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich (seventh edition, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter One Demonstrating Corporate Dominance
Chapter Two The Rise and Sudden Decline of the Liberal-Labor Alliance, 1934-1938
Chapter Three Leadership for Corporate Moderates, 1939-1945
Chapter Four The Postwar Years and the Truman Administration
Chapter Five Corporate Moderate Frustrations
Chapter Six Corporate Moderate Successes in the Kennedy Years
Chapter Seven Corporate Moderation and More Success
Chapter Eight New Sources of Conflict between Corporations and Unions
Chapter Nine Corporate Policy Success and Economic Failure in the First Nixon Administration
Chapter Ten The Rise of the Business Roundtable and Tension within the CED, 1973-1976
Chapter Eleven Corporate Triumphs during the Carter Administration
Chapter Twelve The Reagan Culmination, 1981-1984
Chapter Thirteen The Road to the Great Recession