Description
Product ID: | 9781786635907 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | The Essential Mike Davis |
Title: | Prisoners of the American Dream |
Subtitle: | Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class |
Authors: | Author: Mike Davis |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Politics and government, Central / national / federal government, Civics and citizenship, Politics & government, Central government, Civil rights & citizenship |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Why has there never been a mass working class party in the United States? A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2018-06-26 |