Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working Class

About this book

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United States Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis’s brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world’s most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the working class? This series of essays surveys the history of the American bourgeois democratic revolution from its Jacksonian beginnings to the rise of the New Right and the re-election of Ronald Reagan, concluding with some bracing thoughts on the prospects for progressive politics in the United States.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9781786635907

Publisher

Verso

Published

July 17, 2018

Pages

400

Weight

11.2 oz

Subject

Social Science