City, Class, and Power
Author: Manuel Castells
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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Class and Power in the New Deal
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011-06-29
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0804779023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Class and Power in the New Deal provides a new perspective on the origins and implementation of the three most important policies that emerged during the New Deal—the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. It reveals how Northern corporate moderates, representing some of the largest fortunes and biggest companies of that era, proposed all three major initiatives and explores why there were no viable alternatives put forward by the opposition. More generally, this book analyzes the seeming paradox of policy support and political opposition. The authors seek to demonstrate the superiority of class dominance theory over other perspectives—historical institutionalism, Marxism, and protest-disruption theory—in explaining the origins and development of these three policy initiatives. Domhoff and Webber draw on extensive new archival research to develop a fresh interpretation of this seminal period of American government and social policy development.
Class, Power and Austerity
Author: Eric Lichten
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The athor views the fiscal crisis as both a product and the process of class struggle. . . . Interview data and documents are combined to present a useful and interesting counter-perspective sensitive to the contingencies of struggle. Choice
Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring
Author: Pauline Lipman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780791437698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the intersection of two central issues in American education today: school reform through restructuring and alienation from school of many children of color. A tough look at the impact of teachers' and administrators' beliefs and practices.
Who Rules America Now?
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Conflict, Power, and Politics in the City
Author: Kevin R. Cox
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Class and Power in Roman Palestine
Author: Anthony Keddie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-03
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1108493947
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines how socioeconomic relations between Judaean elites and non-elites changed as Palestine became part of the Roman Empire.
Class Power and the Central City
Riches, Class, and Power
Author: Edward Pessen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1351492934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated. While historians might quarrel about the social sources of egalitarianism, they did not dispute the soundness of the basic model; and Tocqueville's vision clearly dominated American's sense of itself as well. A self-acknowledged congenital skeptic, Pessen decided to find out whether the facts of American life sustained Tocqueville's conclusions. Riches, Class, and Power, represents more than five years' intensive research on the wealth, family backgrounds, careers, marriages, residential patterns, uses of leisure, life-styles, social standing, and influence and power of the wealthy in four of the five largest cities in the United States before the Civil War. Pessen examines New York City, Philadelphia, Boston and the then-separate city of Brooklyn in the 1820s and 1840s. His claim is that the massive evidence on urban life of the time sharply refutes Tocqueville's thesis. A National Book Award finalist for history, Riches, Class, and Power undoubtedly helped reshape America before the Civil War. In his reintroduction to this paperback edition, Pessen reviews the critical reaction, and reconsiders the extent to which its findings are applicable to the social structure of small or frontier towns of the period. He discusses whether unequal distribution of wealth in America results more from changes in historical circumstance or to shifts in demographic or age structure.
How Class Works
Author: Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780300105049
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Although Americans like to believe that they live in a classless society, Stanley Aronowitz demonstrates that class remains a potent force. Defining class as the power of social groups to make a difference, he explains that social groups such as labor movements, environmental activists, and feminists become classes when they make demands that change the course of history. “With How Class Works Aronowitz puts the subject of social class squarely on the intellectual agenda—though in a new, inclusive, and dynamic form. Like his influential False Promises, How Class Works is both intellectually exciting and morally challenging.”—Barbara Ehrenreich “In How Class Works Aronowitz argues for the enduring vitality of the concept of social class as a way of understanding social relations. This is a significant contribution to social theory, an argument certain to be widely considered, debated, and tested.”—George Lipsitz, author of American Studies in a Moment of Danger “An intellectually captivating book on a topic that remains as timely and significant as ever.”—Howard Kimeldorf, University of Michigan
