TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ehrenreich,John
TI  - Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream 
SN  - 9781501703591
AV  - HC103 .E373 2016eb
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - General Economics
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Third Wave Capitalism --; 2. The Health of Nations --; 3. Getting Schooled --; 4. Race and Poverty: The Betrayal of the American Dream --; 5. The Crisis of the Liberal and Creative Professions --; 6. Anxiety and Rage: The Age of Discontent --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century gave way to corporate capitalism in the twentieth, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism."Third Wave Capitalism is marked by apparent contradictions: Rapid growth in productivity and lagging wages; fabulous wealth for the 1 percent and the persistence of high levels of poverty; increases in the standard of living and increases in mental illness, personal misery, and political rage; the apotheosis of the individual and the deterioration of democracy; increases in life expectancy and out-of-control medical costs; an African American president and the incarceration of a large percentage of the black population.Ehrenreich asserts that these phenomena are evidence that a virulent, individualist, winner-take-all ideology and a virtual fusion of government and business have subverted the American dream. Greed and economic inequality reinforce the sense that each of us is "on our own." The result is widespread lack of faith in collective responses to our common problems. The collapse of any organized opposition to business demands makes political solutions ever more difficult to imagine. Ehrenreich traces the impact of these changes on American health care, school reform, income distribution, racial inequities, and personal emotional distress. Not simply a lament, Ehrenreich's book seeks clues for breaking out of our current stalemate and proposes a strategy to create a new narrative in which change becomes possible
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501703591
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