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Dismantling Solidarity : Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501708206
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dismantling SolidarityDDC classification:
  • 331.25/20973
LOC classification:
  • HD7125
Online resources:
Contents:
Dismantling Solidarity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Retirement Puzzle -- 2. Capitalist Crisis and Pension Insecurity -- 3. Reconversion and the Origin of Bargained Plans -- 4. Turning Labor into Finance Capital -- 5. Toward the 401(k) Ownership Society -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.
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Dismantling Solidarity -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The Retirement Puzzle -- 2. Capitalist Crisis and Pension Insecurity -- 3. Reconversion and the Origin of Bargained Plans -- 4. Turning Labor into Finance Capital -- 5. Toward the 401(k) Ownership Society -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.

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