
The Middle Class Fights Back
How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America
Brian D'Agostino(Autor*in)
Praeger Publishers Inc
Erschienen am 16. Juli 2012
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Hardcover
224 Seiten
978-1-4408-0273-7 (ISBN)
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Providing an insightful diagnosis of what went wrong and prescriptions for a cure, this book is a must-read for angry and confused middle-class Americans who want to understand the forces that are undermining their prosperity and economic security.
The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America presents an unapologetic and coherent analysis of American state capitalism. Is there a way to stop politicians, corporate CEOs, and predatory investors from plunging the entire world further into a new economic dark age? According to author, teacher, and political scientist Brian D'Agostino, PhD, the answer is "yes."
His book identifies the policies undermining middle class prosperity, demolishes their protective ideologies, and offers a visionary but pragmatic agenda of policy and institutional reforms that will encourage and fuel progressive movements of the 21st century. Part I of the book exposes the national security and neoliberal policies that are deindustrializing America and undermining the middle class, as well as the ideologies that deceive and confuse ordinary people about what is occurring. Part II provides a manifesto of policy strategies and institutional reforms that can restore American democracy and prosperity, enabling the United States to once again lead the world by example as it once did in the 18th-century struggle for political democracy.
The Middle Class Fights Back: How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America presents an unapologetic and coherent analysis of American state capitalism. Is there a way to stop politicians, corporate CEOs, and predatory investors from plunging the entire world further into a new economic dark age? According to author, teacher, and political scientist Brian D'Agostino, PhD, the answer is "yes."
His book identifies the policies undermining middle class prosperity, demolishes their protective ideologies, and offers a visionary but pragmatic agenda of policy and institutional reforms that will encourage and fuel progressive movements of the 21st century. Part I of the book exposes the national security and neoliberal policies that are deindustrializing America and undermining the middle class, as well as the ideologies that deceive and confuse ordinary people about what is occurring. Part II provides a manifesto of policy strategies and institutional reforms that can restore American democracy and prosperity, enabling the United States to once again lead the world by example as it once did in the 18th-century struggle for political democracy.
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Englisch
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USA
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
Gewicht
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4408-0273-7 (9781440802737)
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The Middle Class Fights Back
How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America
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The Middle Class Fights Back
How Progressive Movements Can Restore Democracy in America
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Brian D'Agostino, PhD, teaches political economy and history at the Harry Van Arsdale, Jr. Center for Labor Studies, Empire State College, State University of New York.
Inhalt
Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: How the Rich Rule
1 The National Security Scam
2 The Attack on Wages and Benefits
3 School Reform and Other Diversions
4 The Attack on Government
Part II: A New Progressive Agenda
5 Government for the People
6 Markets without Capitalism
7 Unleashing Minds and Brains
8 Renewing Democracy
Appendix: Psychology of the Radical Right
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: How the Rich Rule
1 The National Security Scam
2 The Attack on Wages and Benefits
3 School Reform and Other Diversions
4 The Attack on Government
Part II: A New Progressive Agenda
5 Government for the People
6 Markets without Capitalism
7 Unleashing Minds and Brains
8 Renewing Democracy
Appendix: Psychology of the Radical Right
Bibliography
Index