Recapitalizing America

Auteur

S.M. Miller was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Boston University, USA. He received many honors and awards throughout his career, including Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the 2009 American Sociological Association's Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he directs the Center for Employment Equity. He is also the convener of the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN). His work has won numerous awards, and he has held visiting faculty appointments in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden. In addition to 100 or so social science articles, he has published four monographs, including Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy (Routledge, 1983), Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation (Cornell, 1993), and Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment since the Civil Rights Act (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012). His most recent monograph, Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach (Oxford, 2019) won the best book awards from two sections of the American Sociological Association. He has served as President of the Southern Sociological Society and Secretary of the American Sociological Association, as well as Chair of both the Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations, and Work sections of the American Sociological Association.

Texte du rabat

First published in 1983, Recapitalizing America (now with a new preface by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) identifies, criticizes and offers alternatives to accepted wisdoms of recapitalization, whose variants include not only Reaganomics and Thatcherism but also less rigid neo-liberal and liberal policy proposals likely to supplant them.

Résumé
First published in 1983, Recapitalizing America (now with a new preface by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey) identifies, criticizes and offers alternatives to accepted wisdoms of recapitalization, whose variants include not only Reaganomics and Thatcherism but also less rigid neo-liberal and liberal policy proposals likely to supplant them.

Contenu

Part One: Misunderstanding America 1. Accepted wisdoms 2. The Great Transformation 3. International trade: the real British Disease? 4. Productivity: producing confusion 5. Investment panacea 6. Can recapitalization provide the jobs? Part Two: Moving beyond Reaganism and liberalism 7. Old beginnings: contradictions and tensions in bureaucratic liberalism 8. Progressive departures 9. Breaking political boundaries