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

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1595587071
ISBN-13 9781595587077
Publisher The New Press
Imprint The New Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 16th, 2012
Print length 468 Pages
Weight 672 grams
Dimensions 23.40 x 15.20 x 3.30 cms
Ksh 4,700.00
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Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present.
Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian

A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin’ Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie’s remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore—Cowie, with “an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America’s fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.


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