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The breaking of the American social compact / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.
- Title
- The breaking of the American social compact / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.
- Author
- Piven, Frances Fox
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Cloward, Richard A.
- Description
- ix, 452 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Piven and Cloward demonstrate that under the banner of "globalization," a mobilized American business class is driving down wages and benefits, breaking unions, weakening civil rights, and slashing programs that protect the disadvantaged - all at a time when income and wealth inequality has reached historic extremes. They argue that business elites' claim that ordinary people must make due with less because of the imperatives of the global markets is a hoax, and that the effort to dismantle the social compact should instead be understood as an ideologically powered political mobilization by business.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- bibliography.
- bibliographie.
- bibliografía.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Breaking the social compact -- Part 1: Breakinig the social compact -- Part 2: race politics -- Part 3: The assault on contemporary relief -- Part 4: Disruption: movements and their electoral impact -- Part 5: power and political institutions.
- ISBN
- 1565843916
- LCCN
- ^^^97068412^
- OCLC
- 37839645
- SCSB-10327357
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library