In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory—the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality. When high oil prices and economic competition from Japan and Germany battered the American economy, new policies—both international and domestic—became necessary. But war was waged against inflation, rather than against unemployment, and the government promoted a balanced budget instead of growth. This, says Stein, marked the beginning of the age of finance and subsequent deregulation, free trade, low taxation, and weak unions that has fostered inequality and now the worst recession in sixty years.
Drawing on extensive archival research and covering the economic, intellectual, political, and labor history of the decade, Stein provides a wealth of information on the 1970s. She also shows that to restore prosperity today, America needs a new model: more factories and fewer financial houses.

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

Business & Money

Stein, Judith

Economics

Yale University Press

In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory—the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced both robust economic growth and greater income equality. When high oil prices and economic competition from Japan and Germany battered the American economy, new policies—both international and domestic—became necessary. But war was waged against inflation, rather than against unemployment, and the government promoted a balanced budget instead of growth. This, says Stein, marked the beginning of the age of finance and subsequent deregulation, free trade, low taxation, and weak unions that has fostered inequality and now the worst recession in sixty years. 
Drawing on extensive archival research and covering the economic, intellectual, political, and labor history of the decade, Stein provides a wealth of information on the 1970s. She also shows that to restore prosperity today, America needs a new model: more factories and fewer financial houses.

Homework is an important part of a child’s education; unfortunately, these daily assignments can easily become a daily hassle for families. The experts from the Research Institute for Learning and Development are here to help. As parents themselves, they understand the demands today’s families face; as educators, they know what children need to succeed in school. They cover everythingfrom identifying a child’s learning style and discovering what motivates him or her to specific tips for supporting a student with reading, writing, and math homework. You’ll find suggestions for helping children organize an effective work space, develop time- management skills, manage long-term assignments, become accountable for their own work, and much more. In addition, there are chapters on preparing for tests and communicating and collaborating with teachers. A one-stop resource for helping children succeed with homework! For use with Grades 4 &amp; Up.

Parent Guide to Hassle-Free Homework: Proven Practices that Work from Experts in the Field

Parenting & Relationships

Meltzer, Lynn

Krishnan, Kalyani

Pollica, Laura

Parenting

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the right\nWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care to trade to labor relations. Yet by the time he left office, the nation’s economic and social policies had instead lurched dramatically rightward, exacerbating the inequalities so troubling in our own time. This book reveals why Clinton’s expansive agenda was a fabulous failure, and why its demise still haunts us today.\nNelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein show how the administration’s progressive reformers―people like Robert Reich, Ira Magaziner, Laura Tyson, and Joseph Stiglitz―were stymied by a new world of global capitalism that heightened Wall Street influence, undermined domestic manufacturing, and eviscerated the labor movement. Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, and Al Gore proved champions of this financialized world. Meanwhile, Clinton divided his own party when he relied on Republican votes to overhaul welfare, liberalize trade, and deregulate the banking and telecommunications industries. Even the economic boom Clinton ushered in―which tamed unemployment and sent the stock market soaring in what Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen termed a “fabulous decade”―ended with a series of exploding asset bubbles that his neoliberal economic advisors neither foresaw nor prevented.\nA Fabulous Failure is a study of ideas in action, some powerfully persuasive, others illusionary and self-defeating. It explains why and how the Clinton presidency’s progressive statecraft floundered in a world where the labor movement was weak, civil rights forces quiescent, and corporate America ever more powerful.

A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Lichtenstein, Nelson

Education & Reference

Princeton University Press

GOLDEN GRACE, A Journey through Healing is the first book written by a patient that documents the human energy field and its motion during surgery. It correlates vibrations of consciousness to the development of disease, and therapeutic approaches to healing through a balanced energetic environment. The road to wellness is more than physical energy; it includes the balancing of emotional and spiritual energies as well. The author introduces the concept of total healing at the cellular and spiritual level, telling her story through a medical experience. When she had bi-lateral mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction, she included a medical intuitive as part of her surgical team. The account of this innovative surgery and recovery to wellness will inspire readers to look at disease and preventative medicine with a new understanding. People today are searching for alternative methods of self-healing in a worldwide spiritual evolution. The author's story travels from the wind-sculpted sandstone cliffs of the American West to the verdant landscape of the east where she seeks treatments from a Native American Shaman. Together, they form an arc of contrasts born of different cultures with a common goal; bringing light to others. GOLDEN GRACE chronicles the risks that are linked to breast cancer cases, and suggests both environmental and lifestyle changes that may mitigate the impacts of toxins and industrial influences on our health. The author also describes nature, color and light into designs for healing spaces. These principles are effective regardless of the reader's age, gender, and state of health.They provide a guide for maintaining wellness. A follow up book is in the works: "Listen to the Land-Earth Speaks"The author clearly illustrates the high risk of living in some areas of the United States and its long term environmental impacts on health. The sequel will detail the effects of pesticides, water, food, product chemicals, nuclear power, fossil fuels, electromagnetic fields, and other questionable influences on the environments in which we live or die. When we see earth as a community to which we belong, we may then begin to honor it with love and respect.

Golden Grace: A Journey Through Healing

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McBride, Elizabeth

Alternative Medicine

Elizabeth McBride Author

This handbook provides strategies designed to extend coverage under the Medicare law to all who are entitled, regardless of their medical condition or economic status. The handbook provides access to relevant Medicare law and regulations, case law developments, agency manuals, and other program-implementing materials, along with practical information about how to use these materials. This edition of the handbook provides information on the new Medicare prescription drug benefit that starts in 2006, and the interim Medicare-endorsed prescription drug discount card program. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Medicare Handbook 2004

Chiplin, Alfred J., Jr.

Family Law

ASPEN PUB.

The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society

In the years during and after World War I the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey led what has been called the largest international mass movement of black people in the twentieth century. He and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), built a steamship line, sponsored expeditions to Liberia, staged annual international conventions, inspired many black business enterprises, endorsed black political candidates, and fostered the study of black history and culture.Judith Stein has not written a conventional biography, though Garvey is the central character. The book is more a study of Garvey's ideology and appeal and of the UNIA and the social basis of its support. Stein examines Garvey's movement in light of the dialectic of race and class that shaped it. Whereas other historians have depicted Garveyism variously as a back-to-Africa, civil rights, or Black Power movement, Stein places Garvey and the UNIA carefully in the context of the international black politics and economics of the period. She analyzes the ways in which the UNIA was a response to the social and political upheaval of world War I and its aftermath. Garvey and other UNIA leaders were part of an international elite of blacks who applauded the triumph of capitalism, though they excoriated the new order's racial discrimination, which denied people like themselves places of prestige in it. Their response to exclusion from the mainstream Western economic world was to construct black institutions modeled on those of white elites. The Black Star Line, the UNIA's steamship company, was just such a venture, and though Garvey's goal of incorporating the black working class into his movement seemed promising briefly after World War I, it ultimately failed. The promise of Garveyism, supported by ideologies generated by the new social movements of the 1920s, was undercut by UNIA leaders' doomed effort to adapt a bourgeois mode of operation to a mass movement. Garveyism was fatally flawed by the ultimate disjunction of its elite methods and mass base. In addition to her reevaluation of standard views of Garvey and Garveyism, Stein sheds new light on her subject with her use of new sources. Among the most interesting of these are her interviews with surviving Garveyites and reports on Garvey by agent of the federal government's intelligence organizations.Judith Stein is the first historian both to take Garveyism seriously and to treat it in its own right as a product of its own time. The resulting study should be of great interest to anyone interested in Garvey, his historical period, or the ways in which his work and ideology still influence us today.

Biographies & Memoirs

Louisiana State University Press

In the years during and after World War I the Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey led what has been called the largest international mass movement of black people in the twentieth century. He and his organization, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), built a steamship line, sponsored expeditions to Liberia, staged annual international conventions, inspired many black business enterprises, endorsed black political candidates, and fostered the study of black history and culture. In The World of Marcus Garvey, Judith Stein examines Garvey’s ideology and appeal by placing Garvey and the UNIA carefully in the context of the international black politics and class structure of the period. She analyzes the ways Garvey boldly employed conventional racial ideas and goals to organize a militant black population during the social and political upheavals of World War I and its aftermath. In addition, Stein sheds new light on her subject, drawing on personal interviews with surviving Garveyites and reports from the federal government’s intelligence organizations.

History

Americas

LSU Press

The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in contemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses the steel industry--long considered fundamental to the U.S. economy--to examine liberal policies and priorities after World War II. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, she argues that it was the primacy of foreign commitments and the outdated economic policies of the state, more than the nation's racial conflicts, that transformed American liberalism from the powerful progressivism of the New Deal to the feeble policies of the 1990s. Stein skillfully integrates a number of narratives usually treated in isolation--labor, civil rights, politics, business, and foreign policy--while underscoring the state's focus on the steel industry and its workers. By showing how those who intervened in the industry treated such economic issues as free trade and the globalization of steel production in isolation from the social issues of the day--most notably civil rights and the implementation of affirmative action--Stein advances a larger argument about postwar liberalism. Liberal attempts to address social inequalities without reference to the fundamental and changing workings of the economy, she says, have led to the foundering of the New Deal state.

Running Steel, Running America : Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism

The University of North Carolina Press

The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated incontemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein usesthe steel industry-long considered fundamental to the U.S. economy-to examine liberal policies and priorities after WorldWar II. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, she argues that it was the primacy of foreign commitments and theoutdated economic policies of the state, more than the nation'sracial conflicts, that transformed American liberalism from thepowerful progressivism of the New Deal to the feeble policies ofthe 1990s. Stein skillfully integrates a number of narratives usuallytreated in isolation-labor, civil rights, politics, business, and foreign policy-while underscoring the state's focus on thesteel industry and its workers. By showing how those whointervened in the industry treated such economic issues as freetrade and the globalization of steel production in isolation fromthe social issues of the day-most notably civil rights and theimplementation of affirmative action-Stein advances a largerargument about postwar liberalism. Liberal attempts to addresssocial inequalities without reference to the fundamental andchanging workings of the economy, she says, have led to thefoundering of the New Deal state.

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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

Parent Guide to Hassle-Free Homework: Proven Practices that Work from Experts in the Field

A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism (Politics and Society in Modern America)

Golden Grace: A Journey Through Healing

Medicare Handbook 2004

The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society

The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society

Running Steel, Running America : Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism

Running Steel, Running America : Race, Economic Policy, and the Decline of Liberalism