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The seventies: problems and proposals

Title
The seventies: problems and proposals / edited by Irving Howe and Michael Harrington.
Publication
New York, Harper & Row [1972]

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Additional Authors
  • Howe, Irving
  • Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989
  • Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
Description
x, 519 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
USA. Compilation of essays examining the need for radical social change and proposing future social policies for the 1970's - includes papers on youth, poverty, the social role and social status of women, the defence industry, civil rights, labour relations, police violence, Black political participation, population growth, pollution, public education, crime, prison systems, political leadership, urbanization, foreign policy, etc. References.
Subject
  • 1960-1980
  • Geschichte 1970-1972
  • Social conditions
  • Sozialer Wandel
  • Sozialismus
  • social change
  • future
  • social policy
  • youth
  • poverty
  • social role
  • social status
  • women
  • defence industry
  • civil rights
  • labour relations
  • police
  • Blacks
  • political participation
  • population growth
  • pollution
  • public education
  • crime
  • prison
  • political leadership
  • urbanization
  • foreign policy
  • changement social
  • futur
  • politique sociale
  • jeunesse
  • pauvreté
  • rôle social
  • statut social
  • femmes
  • industrie d'armement
  • droits du citoyen
  • relations de travail
  • Noirs
  • participation politique
  • croissance démographique
  • enseignement public
  • criminalité
  • direction politique
  • urbanisation
  • politique étrangère
  • cambio social
  • futuro
  • política social
  • juventud
  • pobreza
  • papel social
  • condición social
  • mujeres
  • industria armamentista
  • derechos civiles
  • relaciones laborales
  • policía
  • negros
  • participación política
  • crecimiento demográfico
  • contaminación ambiental
  • enseñanza pública
  • delito
  • prisión
  • dirección política
  • urbanización
  • política exterior
  • United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • reference.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • referencia.
Note
  • gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
American society: burdens, problems, solutions / Michael Harrington -- What's the trouble?: social crisis, crisis of civilization, or both? / Irving Howe -- Between apostles and technicians: mind-blowing and problem-solving / Robert Lekachman -- Social priorities, economic policy, and the state / Eugene Keller -- The counterculture: tranquilizer or revolutionary ideology? / Jesse Pitts -- Being young in a postindustrial society / Erazim V. Kohák -- Generation gap or gap within a generation? / Gus Tyler -- State within a state: what is the military-industrial complex? / Sanford Gottlieb -- Corporate takeover and popular challenge / Ben B. Seligman -- Could it happen here?: civil liberties in a national emergency / Alan Dershowitz -- Violence: the police, the militants, and the rest of us / Michael Walzer -- Women -terms of liberation / Alice S. Rossi -- Labor's decade -maybe / Brendan and Patricia Cayo Sexton -- The agonies of Black militancy / Jervis Anderson -- Black politics: a new power / Martin Kilson -- Population growth and social policy / Dennis H. Wrong -- The politics of pollution / Michael Harrington -- Perishable good: social ferment in the American religious world / Richard Robbins -- What do the poor need?: (money) / Lewis Coser -- Public schools: the next decade / David K. Cohen -- Crime on and off the streets / Bernard Rosenberg -- A better system of prisons?: decentralization and participation / Lewis Lipsitz -- Nixon and neo-Jeffersonianism / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The city: nostalgia, illusion, and reality / Sidney H. Aronson -- The new shape of foreign policy / Henry M. Pachter -- What do we want right now?: legislative proposals for reform / Leon Shull and Stina Santiestevan -- A political strategy for radical liberals / Arnold S. Kaufman -- Coalition politics revisited / Emanuel Geltman and Stanley Plastrik.
ISBN
  • 006011973X
  • 9780060119737
LCCN
71181628
OCLC
  • ocm00514430
  • 514430
  • SCSB-8987773
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library