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Jefferson Cowie - Essays,& Opinions
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An Archive of Opinions, Essays, and Reviews. POLITICO Magazine, 18 Feb 2014. The Forty Hour Week: Bring it Back. New York Times, 3 Feb 2014. The Future of Fair Labor. New York Times, 25 June 2013. Love Song to the UAW. Dissent Magazine, 7 December 2012. Out of Control: Reagan, Labor, and the Fate of the Nation. Dissent Magazine, Winter 2012. Beyond Ohio: Why the Crisis of the Public Sector is Really in the Private Sector. The New Republic 8 November 2011. Writing History in an Age of Inequality. The Amer...
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Jefferson Cowie - CapitalMoves
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Winner of the Taft Prize for Labor History. Michael Kazin, Georgetown University. A conceptually rich and deeply humane book. Jefferson Cowie narrates how industrial workers in two nations and four different communities coped with one company’s relentless search for cheap and pliable labor. He is a rare historian who illuminated the future by explaining a vital part of the past. Michael Kazin, Georgetown University. Frederico Romero, Journal of American History. Nelson Lichtenstein, UC Santa Barbara.
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Jefferson Cowie - The GreatException
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The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics. 8220;Jefferson Cowie’s The Great Exception. Is a brilliant contribution to the understanding of American politics. Cowie makes the case that the halcyon era of liberalism, from Roosevelt to Kennedy, was an outlier–and that the victories of Reagan and Gingrich were not revolutions but restorations. A must-read.”. 8211;Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times. 8220; The Great Exception. 8211;Eric Alterman, columnist for The Nation. 8220;Linking the past and present...
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November 2016 – roads to modernity
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Classic Books. The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi. February 24, 2017. February 4, 2017. The Company of Merchants Trading to Africa: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Politics. January 29, 2017. January 22, 2017. William Pettigrew and the “Global Determinants of the English Constitution”. January 16, 2017. William Pettigrew an…. On Review:Rethinking Modernity: P…. On Questions About the Illicit Sl…. Book Review, Behind…. On Slavery’s Capitalism: A New Hi…. On Junto’s Roundtable on Na…. From the 1690s...
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Jefferson Cowie - Stayin' Alive
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Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize for the best book in American history from the Society of American Historians. A brilliant, readable autopsythis is history from the bottom up without forgetting the way it all looked from the top.From the murder of Jock Yablonski to the dying strains of Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA,’ Cowie brilliant explains who so many good people afield to keep the capitalism we know now from getting a pass. EJ Dionne, the Washington Post. Joan Walsh, Salon.com. The book that give...
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Jefferson Cowie - Beyondthe Ruins
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The Meanings of Deindustrialization. Consciousness of historical change makes Beyond the Ruins an invaluable contribution both to the literature on deindustrialization and to recent American history. . . . Deindustrialization is not only what is done to American communities, it is what we do with ourselves. And a good place to start thinking about what we can do is this fine book. Gerald Friedman, University of Massachusetts. John Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO. Thomas J. Sugrue. Collectively, these histori...
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Jefferson Cowie - Biography& CV
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Jefferson Cowie recently joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University, where he moved after teaching at Cornell University for eighteen years. At Vanderbilt, he holds the James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History. His work in social and political history focuses on how class, inequality, and labor shape American politics and culture. Magazine described Jefferson Cowie as one of our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience. His most recent book,. The noted Washington Post.
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