Opis: Just Around the Corner - Stanley Aronowitz, S Aronowitz

Americans have always believed that economic growth leads to job growth. In this groundbreaking book, Stanley Aronowitz argues that this is no longer true. "Just Around the Corner" looks at the state of the American economy as planned by democrats and republicans over the last thirty years. In this book, Aronowitz finds that economic growth has become "delinked" from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of our economy. He traces the historical roots of this state of affairs, and sees under the surface of booms and busts a continuum of econcomic austerity that creates a boom for the rich at the expense of most Americans. He then examines the cultural and political processes by which we have come to describe and accept economics in the US. And lastly, he proposes a concrete plan of action that would guarantee employment and living wages for all Americans. In both measured analysis and persuasive reasoning, Stanley Aronowitz's 'Just Around the Corner" is an indispensable guide to our current economic predicament and a bold challenge to economists and policymakers. "Aronowitz writes well and makes a persuasive case that will no doubt be challenged by mainstream neo-liberal economists. But it will be difficult to undermine the solid empirical data he has amassed to show that the problem of economic growth without sustainable and remunerative employment presents a huge challenge for the future." The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "Aronowitz's book promises to be [yet another!] of his incisive and timely political interventions - a clarion call both to the American labor movement (and American workers who wait for it to act on their behalf) and left activists." Daniel Walkowitz "Like such works as Robert Pollin's Contours of Descent, it is a telling indictment of the neoliberal consensus. And like Bennett and Harrison's Growing Prosperity, it makes a convincing case for public job creation and public infrastructure. But its historical explication of how we arrived at this juncture, its discussion of just what a job is, and its analysis of the role that unions and the left have played or failed to play make it a distinctive contribution to current policy debates." John BuellChapter One: How We Got Here: A Snapshot Economic History of America Chapter Two: The Reagan Revolution, The Clinton "Boom" and the Downsizing of America Chapter Three: It's the Technology, Stupid Chapter Four: The Price of Neo-Liberal Globalization Chapter Five: A Real Jobs and Income Program Notes

Szczegóły: Just Around the Corner - Stanley Aronowitz, S Aronowitz

Tytuł: Just Around the Corner
Autor: Stanley Aronowitz, S Aronowitz
Producent: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592131389
Rok produkcji: 2005
Ilość stron: 160
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.21 kg

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