The Rise of the Union Right — The Atlantic
worse by seeking to bust unions and whatever other worker protections still lingered and to remake more and more of the society as an always-on labor market in which workers were downbidding one another for millions of little fleeting gigs.
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Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
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The foundation of Eisenhower’s victory had been his overwhelming margins in the suburbs, and it was suburbia, traditionally GOP suburbia, that was the fastest-growing part of America. As for the cities, the longtime Democratic strongholds, the Democrats had, almost incredibly, lost Chicago and almost lost New York—an indication of what analysts cal
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Many of those laid-off steelworkers and other laborers were Boomers, and many others found that good working-class jobs became scarce
Jean M. Twenge • Generations
The late 1970’s marked a break in the post-war compact between labor and capital , the tacit arrangement following World War II where businesses compromised with labor unions in exchange for stability and economic growth. In 1980, we saw the overwhelmingly popular elections of Ronald Reagan in the US and Margaret Thatcher in the UK. At home, Paul V... See more
Are We Seeing a Political Realignment?
People have talked about zombie Reaganism, but in this scenario a new coalition would be finally popping into view. And it’s a totally different carving of the political spectrum than the Reagan era. Rather than nationalists and capitalists (the right) against internationalists and socialists (the left), it’s internationalists and capitalists (left
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