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Running Steel, Running America - Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Running Steel, Running America - Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism (Paperback, New edition)
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The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in
contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses the
steel industry--long considered fundamental to the U.S. economy--to
examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II. In a
provocative revision of postwar American history, she argues that
it was the primacy of foreign commitments and the outdated economic
policies of the state, more than the nation's racial conflicts,
that transformed American liberalism from the powerful
progressivism of the New Deal to the feeble policies of the 1990s.
Stein skillfully integrates a number of narratives usually treated
in isolation--labor, civil rights, politics, business, and foreign
policy--while underscoring the state's focus on the steel industry
and its workers. By showing how those who intervened in the
industry treated such economic issues as free trade and the
globalization of steel production in isolation from the social
issues of the day--most notably civil rights and the implementation
of affirmative action--Stein advances a larger argument about
postwar liberalism. Liberal attempts to address social inequalities
without reference to the fundamental and changing workings of the
economy, she says, have led to the foundering of the New Deal
state. |Using the steel industry to examine liberal policies and
priorities after World War II, Stein shows that economic
policy--not racial conflict--led to the feeble liberalism of the
1990s.
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