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  • The Next Shift

    The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

    Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the C. L. R. James AwardA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the YearMen in hardhats were once the heart of America’s working class; now it is women in scrubs. What does this shift portend for our future?Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city ... Leer más

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  • New Deal Thought

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    The author of A People’s History of the United States presents the voices of the New Deal, a crucial period that continues to inspire activists todayZinn’s work of historical memory, in an elegant new edition, offers an invaluable glimpse into a too often idealized period and reminds us that political will, not political nostalgia, is what will allow us to build a vibrant left in the present.In ... Leer más

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    The Next Shift

    The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

    Narrado por BJ Harrison ...

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    Pittsburgh was once synonymous with steel. But today most of its mills are gone. Like so many places across the United States, a city that was a center of blue-collar manufacturing is now dominated by the service economy—particularly health care, which employs more Americans than any other industry. Gabriel Winant takes us inside the Rust Belt to show how America's cities have weathered new ... Leer más

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  • The Great Divergence

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    For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal. This steady growing apart is often mentioned as a troubling indicator by scholars and policy analysts, though seldom addressed by politicians. What economics Nobelist Paul Krugman terms "the Great Divergence" has till now been treated as little more than a talking point, a ... Leer más

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  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Leer más

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  • The South Side

    A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

    **One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American CityIn this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities ... Leer más

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    The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America

    In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.Trumpeted as a means to promote the general welfare, mass consumption quickly outgrew its economic objectives and became synonymous with patriotism, social equality, and the ... Leer más

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

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    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Leer más

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  • African American Urban History since World War II

    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
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