The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power /
Fraser, Steve, 1945-
The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / Steve Fraser. - First edition. - viii, 470 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-452) and index.
pt. I: Class warfare in America: the long nineteenth century : Progress ; Progress, poverty, and primitive accumulation ; Premonitions ; The second civil war: in the countryside ; The second civil war: on the industrial frontier ; Myth and history ; The end of socialism -- pt. II: Desire and fear in the second Gilded Age : Back to the future: the political economy of auto-cannibalism ; Fables of acquiescence: the businessman as populist hero ; Fables of freedom: Brand X ; Wages of freedom: the fable of the free agent ; Journey to nowhere: the eclipse of the labor movement ; Improbable rebels: the folklore of limousine liberalism ; Conclusion: Exit by the rear doors.
"A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year"--
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1945-1989
Social conflict--History.--United States
Protest movements--History.--United States
Income distribution--History.--United States
Elite (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Acquiescence (Psychology)--History.
Social psychology--History.--United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Ethics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Corporate Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Finance.
Acquiescence (Psychology)
Elite (Social sciences)
Income distribution.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Protest movements.
Social conflict.
Social psychology.
Kapitalismus
Wirtschaftliche Elite
Politische Elite
Klassengesellschaft
Akzeptanz
Soziale Bewegung
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States.
USA
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
History.
E169.Z8 / F73 2015 HN90.S62 / F73 2015
973.91
The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / Steve Fraser. - First edition. - viii, 470 pages ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-452) and index.
pt. I: Class warfare in America: the long nineteenth century : Progress ; Progress, poverty, and primitive accumulation ; Premonitions ; The second civil war: in the countryside ; The second civil war: on the industrial frontier ; Myth and history ; The end of socialism -- pt. II: Desire and fear in the second Gilded Age : Back to the future: the political economy of auto-cannibalism ; Fables of acquiescence: the businessman as populist hero ; Fables of freedom: Brand X ; Wages of freedom: the fable of the free agent ; Journey to nowhere: the eclipse of the labor movement ; Improbable rebels: the folklore of limousine liberalism ; Conclusion: Exit by the rear doors.
"A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE seeks to solve that mystery. Steve Fraser's account of national transformation brilliantly examines the rise of American capitalism, the visionary attempts to protect the democratic commonwealth, and the great surrender to today's delusional fables of freedom and the politics of fear. Effervescent and razorsharp, THE AGE OF ACQUIESCENCE will be one of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year"--
9780316185431 0316185434
BRO-copy20150209-147 BRO-cust20150212-054
2014020466
GBB4E9754 bnb
1945-1989
Social conflict--History.--United States
Protest movements--History.--United States
Income distribution--History.--United States
Elite (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Power (Social sciences)--History.--United States
Acquiescence (Psychology)--History.
Social psychology--History.--United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Ethics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Corporate Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Finance.
Acquiescence (Psychology)
Elite (Social sciences)
Income distribution.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Protest movements.
Social conflict.
Social psychology.
Kapitalismus
Wirtschaftliche Elite
Politische Elite
Klassengesellschaft
Akzeptanz
Soziale Bewegung
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States.
USA
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--1865-1918.
History.
E169.Z8 / F73 2015 HN90.S62 / F73 2015
973.91