Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

522 Pages·2012·3.65 MB·English

by  Jefferson R. Cowie

Table of Contents

ALSO BY JEFFERSON COWIE
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction

BOOK ONE - Hope in the Confusion, 1968-1974
Chapter 1 - Old Fashioned Heroes of the New Working Class
Clarksville, Pennsylvania. New Year’s Eve, 1969
Chelsea Hotel. Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1935
Consolidated Coal. Farmington, West Virginia, 1968
Steel Workers Local 65. South Chicago, 1973
Chevy Vega Plant. Lordstown, Ohio, 1972
Table Grape Industry. Delano, California, 1970
Farah Garment Factory. El Paso, Texas, 1972
Gathering of Black Trade Unionists. Chicago, Illinois, 1972
Office Buildings. Boston, Massachusetts, 1973
New Left Caucuses. Workplaces and Campuses, 1973
Chapter 2 - What Kind of Delegation Is This?
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Chapter 3 - Nixon’s Class Struggle
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Chapter 4 - I’m Dying Here
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BOOK TWO - Despair in the Order, 1974-1982
Chapter 5 - A Collective Sadness
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Chapter 6 - The New Deal that Never Happened
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Chapter 7 - The Important Sound of Things Falling Apart
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Chapter 8 - Dead Man’s Town

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Copyright Page
ALSO BY JEFFERSON COWIE
Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization
(edited with Joseph Heathcott)
The Long Exception: An Interpretation of the New Dealf rom FDR to Obama
(with Nick Salvatore, forthcoming)

for Aliya and Aidan
—living proof