The age of inequality : corporate America's war on working people : a forty-year investigation

The age of inequality Corporate America's war on working people : a forty-year investigation

Book - 2017

"In These Times magazine has charted a staggering rise in inequality and the fall of the American middle class. Here, in a selection from four decades of articles by investigative reporters and progressive thinkers, is the story of our age. It is a tale of shockingly successful corporate takeovers stretching from Reagan to Trump, but also of brave attempts to turn the tide, from the Seattle global justice protests to Occupy to the Fight for 15. Featuring contributions from Michelle Chen, Noam Chomsky, Tom Geoghegan, Juan Ganzález, David Moberg, Salim Muwakkil, Ralph Nader, Frances Fox Piven, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Slavoj Žižek, and many others."--The publishers.

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Subjects
Income distribution > United States.
Middle class > United States.
Corporations > United States.
Published
London ; New York : Verso 2017.
Language
English
Corporate Author
In These Times (Firm)
Corporate Author
In These Times (Firm) (author)
Item Description
Editor information from cover.
Includes index.
Editor's introduction / by Jeremy Gantz -- Trading away the working class -- The rich change the rules -- Busted : the decline of unions -- Blowing bubbles : the rise of finance -- Public goods, private hands -- Welcome to the precariat -- Solidarity without borders -- The Black freedom struggle, at the ballot and beyond -- Labor's fate : new solutions to old problems, old solutions to new problems -- After the crash : searching for alternatives.
Physical Description
xiv, 254 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781786631145
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editor's Introduction
  • Part 1. Growing Apart
  • 1. Trading Away the Working Class: Introduction
  • "Youngstown Steel Plant Deliberately Abandoned"
  • "U.S. Multinationals Make Labor Put on Its Fighting Shoes"
  • "Fear and Loathing on the Chrysler Assembly Line"
  • "Run for the Border"
  • "Train in Vain"
  • "Factory Collapse in Bangladesh Exposes Cracks in the System"
  • "This Small Town Shows Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Could Be a Disaster for American Workers"
  • "Our Choices Aren't Only Xenophobic Nationalism or Neoliberal Globalization"
  • 2. The Rich Change the Rules: Introduction
  • "The Business of the U.S. Is..."
  • "Dems Are Becoming Governing Wing of the GOP"
  • "Whose Side Are Tax Cutters On?"
  • "Reaganomics: One Down, Three to Go"
  • "The Poor Still Getting Poorer"
  • "Women's Common Ground"
  • "Stuck in the Middle With You"
  • "Welcome to New Orleans"
  • "We Are All Waiters Now"
  • "The Failed Prophet"
  • "Oligarchy in the U.S.A."
  • "Who Is John Galt? Now We Know!"
  • 3. Busted: The Decline of Unions: Introduction
  • "Labor Movement: Stuck but Stirring"
  • "Equal Time for Union-Busting Firms"
  • "As PATCO Goes, So Go the Unions"
  • "Labors Problems Are the Nations Problems"
  • "To Concede or Not to Concede"
  • "Striking People in a Sticky Situation"
  • "Working It Out"
  • "Lexus and the Right to Pee"
  • "Southern Bellwether"
  • All Apart Now"
  • "Symbol of the System"
  • "Not Your Parents' Labor Movement"
  • "Capitol Offensive"
  • 4. Blowing Bubbles: The Rise of Finance: Introduction
  • "Bank Deregulation Threatens Stability"
  • "Bush's S&L Plan Would Make Us Pay Twice"
  • "Easy Money"
  • "Easy Money and the Rest of Us"
  • "Enronomics 101"
  • "Bursting Bubbles: Why the Economy Will Go From Bad to Worse"
  • "The Subprime Bait and Switch"
  • "Killer Credit"
  • "The Only Road Out of Crisis"
  • A New Strategy to Make the Banks Pay"
  • 5. Public Goods, Private Hands: Introduction
  • "Central American Refugees for Profit"
  • "Corporate Caseworkers"
  • "War Profiteering and You"
  • "Publicopoly Exposed"
  • "Privatizing Government Services Doesn't Only Hurt Public Workers"
  • "How to Sell Off a City"
  • 6. Welcome to the Precariat: Introduction
  • "Cab Companies Use Leasing to Boost Profits"
  • "Marginal Work Is on the Rise as Traditional Jobs Evaporate"
  • "Immigrants Sweat It Out in Illegal Garment Factories"
  • "Life of Leisure Evading the American Worker?"
  • "Temp Slave Revolt"
  • "Hey Miliennials, Debt Becomes You"
  • "For Disgruntled Young Workers, Lawsuits May Spark Intern Insurrection"
  • "The Wage-Theft Epidemic"
  • "Forever Temp?"
  • "An Udderly Bad Job"
  • "Domestic Workers Emerging From the Shadows"
  • "The Adjunct's Lament"
  • Interlude: "In Search of Solidarity"
  • Part 2. Pushback
  • 7. Solidarity Without Borders: Introduction
  • "Time Bombs"
  • "Making History"
  • "Wall Done"
  • "Take It to the Streets"
  • "Another World Is Possible"
  • "People vs. Empire"
  • "Freedom of Movement"
  • "This Land Is Our Land"
  • "All Over the World, Migrants Demand the Right to Stay at Home"
  • "No Papers, No Fear"
  • "The Immigration Movement's Left Turn"
  • "Are Open Borders the Solution to the Refugee Crisis?"
  • 8. The Black Freedom Struggle, at the Ballot and Beyond: Introduction
  • "Washington Still Has a Hard Row to Hoe"
  • "Jackson's Ascent and the Dynamic of Racism"
  • "Advocating Drug Decriminalization a Tough Stand in Black Community"
  • "Being Black in America: The Quiet Riot Continues"
  • "Proud of Obama ... for Now"
  • "The 'Post-Racial' President"
  • "From Hope to Disposability"
  • "In Baltimore and Across the Country, Black Faces in High Places Haven't Helped Average Black People"
  • 9. Labor's Fate: New Solutions to Old Problems, Old Solutions to New Problems: Introduction
  • "Cleaning House"
  • "Face-off at UPS"
  • "Too Cruel for School"
  • "Doing It for Themselves"
  • "Democratic to the CORE"
  • "Even Without Unions, Walmart Warehouse Employees Win Change"
  • "Is Fight for 15 for Real?"
  • "Big Business Aims to Crush Worker Centers"
  • "A Co-op State of Mind"
  • "Bringing Back the Strike May Be Our Only Hope"
  • 10. After the Crash: Searching for Alternatives: Introduction
  • "Take the Fight to the Streets"
  • "An Occupy Road Trip"
  • "Voices From the Occupation"
  • "The Violent Silence of a New Beginning"
  • "No Vacancies: Squatters Move In"
  • "Anti-Foreclosure Activists Put BlackRock in a Hard Place"
  • "Can Socialists Win Elections in the U.S.?"
  • "Bringing Socialism Back"
  • "From Hashing to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter"
  • "Black Lives Matter Puts Prosecutors on Trial"
  • "The Radicalism of Black Lives Matter"
  • Contributors
  • Index

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