Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Stayin' Alive won the 2011 Merle Curti award. Stayin' Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore—Cowie reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- New Press
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN-13
- 9781595585325
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Working class1970s American culture and politicsEconomic inequality
Awards
- J. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeShortlisted(2011)
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