"How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and cultureWhere does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the Unit ..."
Freedomâs Dominion(Reprint) (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by JeffersonCowie Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2024 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-0512-1, ISBN: 1-5416-0512-8
Freedom's Dominion A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by JeffersonCowie 512 Pages, Published 2022 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7280-2, ISBN: 1-5416-7280-1
"A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America."
Capital Moves(Updated) RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (with a New Epilogue) by Jefferson R. Cowie Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2001 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-659-3, ISBN: 1-56584-659-1
Stayin' Alive(1st Edition) The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie Hardcover, 488 Pages, Published 2010 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-875-7, ISBN: 1-56584-875-6
"On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Am ..."
Capital Moves RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor by JeffersonCowie 288 Pages, Published 2019 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2356-8, ISBN: 1-5017-2356-1
"RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor Jefferson Cowie. , ed. Women, Work,
and Protest: A Century of U.S. Women's Labor History. Boston: Routledge &
Kegan Paul ... Palladino, Grace. Dreams of Dignity, Workers of Vision: A History
of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Washington, D.C.:
International ..."
Stayin’ Alive The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie Paperback, 488 Pages, Published 2012 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-707-7, ISBN: 1-59558-707-1
"On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences drastically changed how Americans experience their country, especially for those threatened by the public outburst of bigotry and repression. Am ..."
"Lizabeth Cohen, Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939
(New York, 2008), explains the role of commercial culture, mass production, and
welfare capitalism for the rise of the New Deal; for the best single essay on the
power of corporate paternalism, see David Brody, “The Rise and Decline of
Welfare Capitalism,” in Brody, Workers in Industrial America: Essays on the 20th
Century Struggle, 2nd ed. (New York, 1993) ..."
"Tucked between the activist Sixties and the conservative Eighties lies a largely misunderstood and still under-appreciated decade. Now nine leading scholars of postwar America offer a revealing look at the Seventies and their rightful place in the epic narrative of American history. This is the first major work to relate the economic decline and cultural despair of the Seventies to the creative efforts that would reshape American soc ..."
"The immediate impact of deindustrializationthe suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communitieshas been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume, the authors seek to move discussion of Americas industrial decline beyond the immediate ramifications of plant shutdowns by placing it into a broader social, political, and economic context. Emphasizing a historical approach, the authors e ..."
Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power by JeffersonCowie 496 Pages, Published 2022 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5416-7281-9, ISBN: 1-5416-7281-X
"A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, this book radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America."
Capital Moves(1st Edition) RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor by Jefferson R. Cowie Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 1999 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-3525-6, ISBN: 0-8014-3525-0
"An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book - part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore - makes new sense of the '70s as a crucial and poorly understood transition ..."
Stayin' Alive , Volume 1(Large Print) by Jefferson R. Cowie Paperback, 478 Pages, Published 2011 by Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4596-0423-0, ISBN: 1-4596-0423-7
"An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book - part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore - makes new sense of the '70s as a crucial and poorly understood transition ..."
"Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music. Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics l ..."
Stayin' Alive(Unabridged) The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (Compact Disc) by Jefferson R. Cowie, Tom Perkins Audio, Published 2018 by Tantor Audio Hörbuch, Cd, Ungekürzte Ausgabe ISBN-13: 978-1-63015-378-6, ISBN: 1-63015-378-8