Pocketbook politics : economic citizenship in twentieth-century America
著者
書誌事項
Pocketbook politics : economic citizenship in twentieth-century America
(Politics and society in twentieth-century America)(Princeton paperbacks)
Princeton University Press, 2007, c2005
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
"First paperback printing, 2007"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically shows, the twentieth-century American polity in fact developed in response to that very consumer concern. In this groundbreaking study, Meg Jacobs demonstrates how pocketbook politics provided the engine for American political conflict throughout the twentieth century. From Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon, national politics turned on public anger over the high cost of living. Beginning with the explosion of prices at the turn of the century, every strike, demonstration, and boycott was, in effect, a protest against rising prices and inadequate income. On one side, a reform coalition of ordinary Americans, mass retailers, and national politicians fought for laws and policies that promoted militant unionism, government price controls, and a Keynesian program of full employment. On the other, small businessmen fiercely resisted this low-price, high-wage agenda that threatened to bankrupt them.
This book recaptures this dramatic struggle, beginning with the immigrant Jewish, Irish, and Italian women who flocked to Edward Filene's famous Boston bargain basement that opened in 1909 and ending with the Great Inflation of the 1970s. Pocketbook Politics offers a new interpretation of state power by integrating popular politics and elite policymaking. Unlike most social historians who focus exclusively on consumers at the grass-roots, Jacobs breaks new methodological ground by insisting on the centrality of national politics and the state in the nearly century-long fight to fulfill the American Dream of abundance.
目次
List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Economic Citizenship in the Twentieth Century 1 PART I. THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND THE RISE OF POCKETBOOK POLITICS, 1900-1930 Chapter One: From the Bargain Basement to the Bargaining Table, 1900-1917 15 Chapter Two: Business without a Buyer, 1917-1930 53 PART II. PURCHASING POWER TO THE PEOPLE, 1930-1940 Chapter Three: The New Deal and the Problem of Prices, 1930-1935 95 Chapter Four: The New Deal and the Problem of Wages, 1935-1940 136 PART III. THE EVILS OF INFLATION IN WAR AND PEACE, 1940-1960 Chapter Five: The Consumer Goes to War, 1940-1946 179 Chapter Six: Pocketbook Politics in an Age of Inflation, 1946-1960 221 Epilogue: Back to Bargain Hunting 262 Notes 266 Index 327
「Nielsen BookData」 より