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Paperback Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class Book

ISBN: 1786635909

ISBN13: 9781786635907

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Mike Davis's exegesis attempts to answer the question: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? A documentation of the new economic and political forces ranged against us on both sides of the Atlantic. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Useful history of unions and the American left

"Prisoners of the American Dream" is a two-pronged attack by Mike Davis on the general reactionary tendencies of the 1980s. The first half of the book is a history of American unions and their relations to attempts to produce an actual progressive, leftist "Labor Party" on American soil. Davis does this in a very in-depth, well-sourced manner which will satisfy even a specialist in the subject. He explains the failures of...

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