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Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Cowie, Jefferson

Paperback

Labor20th Century United States HistoryPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1595587071
ISBN13: 9781595587077
Publisher: New Pr
Published: Jan 3 2012
Pages: 488
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian

A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book--part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore--Cowie, with an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.

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