The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980

The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming. Contents Introduction Part I. The New Deal Political Order: Emergence and Crystallization, 1929-1960 1 Industrial Conflict and the Coming of the New Deal: The Triumph of Multinational Liberalism in America 2 Why the Great Depression Was Great: Toward a New Understanding of the Interwar Economic Crisis in the United States 3 The ‘Labor Question’ 4 The New Deal and the Idea of the State 5 From Corporatism to Collective Bargaining: Organized Labor and the Eclipse of Social Democracy in the Postwar Era 6 Cold War—Warm Hearth: Politics and the Family in Postwar America Part II. The New Deal Political Order: Decline and Fall, 1960-1980 7 Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity? 8 The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism 9 The Rise of the “Silent Majority" 10 The Changing Shape of Power: A Realignment in Public Policy Epilogue List of Contributors Index The 10 essays in this book probe the underlying economic, social, and cultural dynamics of the Roosevelt revolution, analyze the durability of the New Deal coalition through the mid-1960s, and uncover the racial, class, and cultural fissures that led to its disintegration. The contributors answer such questions as: How did the Democratic Party accommodate both poor workers and wealthy capitalists: Why did the labor question lose its importance in American politics as soon as the movement achieved political power? Why did economic abundance generate political and cultural conservatism in the 1950s but radicalism in the 1960s? ISBN 0-691-04761-8: $25.00 Essays discuss the Depression, the Cold War, the Great Society, and the Silent Majority. Edited By Steve Fraser And Gary Gerstle. Includes Bibliographies And Index.