The myth of liberal ascendancy : corporate dominance from the Great Depression to the great recession

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The myth of liberal ascendancy : corporate dominance from the Great Depression to the great recession

G. William Domhoff

Paradigm Publishers, c2013

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-293) and index

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Based on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government affairs, affecting the fate of American workers up to the present day. While FDR's New Deal brought sweeping legislation, the tide turned quickly after 1938. From that year onward nearly every major new economic law passed by Congress showed the mark of corporate dominance. Domhoff accessibly portrays documents of the Committee's vital influence in the halls of government, supported by his interviews with several of its key employees and trustees. Domhoff concludes that in terms of economic influence, liberalism was on a long steady decline, despite two decades of post-war growing equality, and that ironically, it was the successes of the civil rights, feminist, environmental, and gay-lesbian movements-not a new corporate mobilisation-that led to the final defeat of the liberal-labour alliance after 1968.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One Demonstrating Corporate Dominance
  • Chapter Two The Rise and Sudden Decline of the Liberal-Labor Alliance, 1934-1938
  • Chapter Three Leadership for Corporate Moderates, 1939-1945
  • Chapter Four The Postwar Years and the Truman Administration
  • Chapter Five Corporate Moderate Frustrations
  • Chapter Six Corporate Moderate Successes in the Kennedy Years
  • Chapter Seven Corporate Moderation and More Success
  • Chapter Eight New Sources of Conflict between Corporations and Unions
  • Chapter Nine Corporate Policy Success and Economic Failure in the First Nixon Administration
  • Chapter Ten The Rise of the Business Roundtable and Tension within the CED, 1973-1976
  • Chapter Eleven Corporate Triumphs during the Carter Administration
  • Chapter Twelve The Reagan Culmination, 1981-1984
  • Chapter Thirteen The Road to the Great Recession

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