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Stayin' Alive: Dancing on the Grave of the Working Class

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Dancing on the Grave of the Working Class. Recent dispatches from the one-sided class war suggest that the rich have taken to not just walking over the working class but dancing on its grave. TARP, for instance, has turned out to be little more than socialism for the rich, with the needs of everyday folks nowhere to be found (even though they were in the original plan). With the interests of homeowners and others ignored, TARP has become ". Little more than a. Argued in the NYT.

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Stayin' Alive: UALE Best Book Award goes to Stayin' Alive

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Sunday, March 27, 2011. UALE Best Book Award goes to Stayin' Alive. The United Association for Labor Education, an organization of labor educators from unions, community-based organizations, universities, colleges, and worker centers, gave Stayin' Alive. Its prize for best book of 2011 at their recent conference. In New Orleans. These are the folks who are most directly tuned into the concerns of working people, so this is particularly meaningful honor. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Working Class S...

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Stayin' Alive: Gender and Seventies Working Class--Revisited

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Gender and Seventies Working Class- Revisited. The wonderful journal Democracy. Published a modified version of my response to Jennifer Klein on questions of gender and class in the seventies. It's polished up and ready for prime time. Check it out here, along with all of the other great stuff in this issue: Jefferson Cowie for Democracy Journal: Red, White, and Blue Collar. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jefferson Cowie's comments, reviews,. Launch of his new book,. Worki...

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Stayin' Alive: Two Critiques from the Left

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Thursday, April 7, 2011. Two Critiques from the Left. Mark Dudzic- labor activist, Labor Party engine, and heir to the mantle of the great Tony Mazzocchi- does not write that much stuff, but what he does produce is always worth reading. His review of Stayin' Alive. Is one of the most scathing I've read, but I pretty much can't argue with too much of it. He's serious,. Mark Dudzic, "Workingman's Blues". In 1st of the Month.org: A Website of the Radial Imagination. Implications (which are mostly implied); ...

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Stayin' Alive: Lovely Letter of a Dying Age

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011. Lovely Letter of a Dying Age. I often get nice letters from readers, but this one really moved me. It's posted with permission:. My father worked at the Ford Motor Company Casting Plant in Brookpark OH. My mother was a stay-at-home mom until she and Dad built their own home in 1950-51 in an out-lying suburb south of Cleveland. She went to work at the local grocery chain to make ends meet and to finish. The house. They struggled, but never were hopeless. Launch of his new book,.

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Stayin' Alive: Thoughts on Springsteen's Wrecking Ball

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Saturday, March 24, 2012. Thoughts on Springsteen's Wrecking Ball. I was stuck in the Detroit airport having missed my connection, and I finally had time to give. Wrecking Ball, the new Springsteen album, a listen (long after everyone gave up asking me what I thought about it). Here are my cranky and poorly-edited thoughts from an uncomfortable seat in the C Terminal of DTW. Take care of our own, we might. To, we would. If we could, we only take care of our own and nobody else? I don’t know. An...I belie...

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Stayin' Alive: The Unmaking and the Making

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Thursday, February 3, 2011. The Unmaking and the Making. 8220;As a work of history, [. Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E.P. Thompson’s. Making of the English Working Class. 8220;Is a Dream a Lie if it Doesn’t Come True (or is it something worse)? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jefferson Cowie's comments, reviews,. News, op-eds, and reflections on the. Launch of his new book,. The 1970s and the Last Days of the. The Unmaking and the Making.

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Stayin' Alive: We Can't Go Home Again--Rethinking the New Deal and Its Legacy

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Thursday, January 27, 2011. We Can't Go Home Again- Rethinking the New Deal and Its Legacy. I've been working on a short book with Nick Salvatore called The Long Exception: An Interpretation of the New Deal in American History. For Princeton University Press that grew out of some lectures and an article we wrote for the journal International Labor and Working Class History. And Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Jefferson Cowie's comments, reviews,. Launch of his new book,.

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Stayin' Alive: Stayin' Alive a Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize in Nonfiction

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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Stayin' Alive a Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize in Nonfiction. The Lukas Prize Project announced its awards today. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. Is a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. The prizes are administered jointly by the Columbia University Graduate. School of Journalism in New York and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Since the prize's namesake wrote the phenomenal. The prize committee said of. Makes u...