Being and Agency: Elites in American History
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19th century elites: Comm Int'L Trade; Sec Bloc Mass consumer capitalism: KE in ND State: from Prog to New Deal Elites on a Regional and Local Level (Red Scare, Oddysey, Suskind new forces postwar: CED/20th Century Fund Members of the 2005 “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” Committee (this is the now-belagured CED sector of modern corporate capitalism) southwest materials producers the new (capitalist) right: firms that arise postwar (e.g. McDonalds) re. labor supply (no skill) and consumer market Fast Food (emerges outsdie the socio-political framework of CED/TCF): buckaneers, "free market" means two things Right-wing food companies List of Companies Supporting Right-Wing and Tea Party Causes and Candidates to Boycott Business nationalism A Guide To Consumer Brands Helping Bankroll Right-Wing Attack Ads Microsoft |
Being and Agency: Elites in American History
Philip H. Burch, Jr., Elites in American History (Holmes & Meier) Vol. 2. The Civil War to the New Deal Vol. 3. The New Deal to the Carter administration (1980) Chicago and the Labor Movement: Metropolitan Unionism in the 1930s Elliot A. Rosen, Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Brains Trust: from Depression to New Deal (Columbia University Press, 1977) Ron Suskind, The Price of Loyalty Michael W. Miles, The Odyssey of the American Right (Oxford University Press, 1980) Kim Phillips-Fein, Invisible Hands: the Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan (W. W. Norton, 2009) Don E. Carleton, Red scare! Right-wing hysteria, fifties fanaticism, and their legacy in Texas (Austin, Tex. : Texas Monthly Press, 1985) Paul Luebke, Tar heel politics 2000 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998), Elizabeth Jacoway, "Taken by Surprise: Little Rock Business Leaders and Desegregation," in Elizabeth Jacoway and David R. Colburn, eds., Southern Businessmen and Desegregation (Louisiana State University Press, 1982) Thomas B. Edsall, Building Red America: the New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power (Basic Books, 2006) Arno J. Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War (Pantheon Books, 1981) Bruce Allen Murphy, The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: the Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices (Oxford, 1982) Alon Gal, Brandeis of Boston (Harvard University Press, 1980), provides a detailed account of Brandeis' business milieu. The business milieu of modern Progressivism, circa 1910, is also indicated by the members of the Chicago Shippers Association and by the set of New England witnesses who were interested parties in the Eastern Rate Case. (Progressivism to New Deal: Charts). Harold Urofsky, ed., Letters of Louis D. Brandeis (State University of New York Press) The key document wherein one can see emergent Keynesianism as cognitive/psychological revolution is Evidence Taken by the Interstate Commerece Commission in the Matter of Proposed Advances in Freight Rates by Carriers, August to December 1910, Senate Doc. 725, 61 Cong., 3 Sess. Evidence taken by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of proposed advances in freight rates by carriers. Vol. 1 hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Sixty-First Congress, third session. |
Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power. Volume I. A history of power from the beginning to A.D. 1760 (Cambridge University Press, 1993) *"Societies are constituted of multiple overlapping and intersecting sociospatial networks of power. . . . Societies are not unitary . . . " p. 1 [expand] Econnomic organization comprises circuit of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption. Its main sociospatial peculiarity is that although those circuits are extensive, they also involve the intensive, practical, everyday labor--what Marx called the praxis--of the mass of the population. p. 25 Volume II: The rise of classes and national states (Cambridge University Press, 1993) *It is a basic tenet of my work that societies are not systems. There is no ultimately determining structure to human existence--at least none that social actors or sociological observers, situated in its midst, can discern. What we call societies are only loose aggregates of diverse, overlapping, intersecting power networks. 506 The two large parties had inherited the interests of the old regime, the Tories being (broadly) the party of the Anglican church, agriculture, and commercial capital; the Liberals, of Nonconformsm and industry. The Tories became more English, especially southern English; the Liberals, more northern and Celtic (though not in Ireland). In these respects both were cross-class parties, including capitalists and workers. Despite the defection of many employers to the Conservative party in this period, the Liberals included industrialists and trade unions (because industry was more northern and Celtc). 619 *America has not so much been exceptional as it has gradually come to represent one extreme on a continuum of class relations. America has never differed qualitatively from other national cases. Differences have been of degree, not kind. . . . Explanations asserting an original and enduring American exceptionalism . . . have only a very limited truth. 638 *On representation, Russia was at the opposite extreme from the United States. . . . But even the eastern edge of the western ideological community experienced the more liberal legacy of the Enlightenment. . . . Among Russian professionals, gentry and aristocrats, and state administrators, a self-conscious, partly autnomous intelligentsia emerged, advancing alternative versions of progress. 660 |
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