Ever since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians
have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of
the New Deal order-the combination of ideas, electoral and
governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full
employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political
liberalism in the wake of the Great Depression and commanded
Democratic majorities for decades. In the decline and break-up of
the New Deal coalition historians found keys to understanding the
transformations that, by the late twentieth century, were shifting
American politics to the right. In Beyond the New Deal Order,
contributors bring fresh perspective to the historic meaning and
significance of New Deal liberalism while identifying the elements
of a distinctively "neoliberal" politics that emerged in its wake.
Part I offers contemporary interpretations of the New Deal with
essays that focus on its approach to economic security and
inequality, its view of participatory governance, and its impact on
the Republican party as well as Congressional politics. Part II
features essays that examine how intersectional inequities of
class, race, and gender were embedded in New Deal labor law, labor
standards, and economic policy and brought demands for employment,
economic justice, and collective bargaining protections to the
forefront of civil rights and social movement agendas throughout
the postwar decades. Part III considers the precepts and defining
narratives of a "post" New Deal political structure, while the
closing essay contemplates the extent to which we may now be
witnessing the end of a neoliberal system anchored in free-market
ideology, neo-Victorian moral aspirations, and post-Communist
global politics. Contributors: Eileen Boris, Angus Burgin, Gary
Gerstle, Romain Huret, Meg Jacobs, Michael Kazin, Sophia Lee,
Nelson Lichtenstein, Joe McCartin, Alice O'Connor, Paul Sabin,
Reuel Schiller, Kit Smemo, David Stein, Jean-Christian Vinel,
Julian Zelizer.
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