Judith Stein is professor of history at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of The World of Marcus Garvey and Running Steel, Running America.
"Stein's book is full of fine-grained arguments about economics,
labor, and history."-Josh Rothman, The Boston Globe
"Pivotal Decade is an important explanation of how liberal became a dirty word and how conservative views came to dominate American political life for so long."-Eric Foner, TheBrowser.com
Winner of the 2010 "Best Book Prize" given by Labor
History
"Here is one of those rare books in which a seasoned historian
offers compelling analyses of urgent contemporary importance.
Pivotal Decade will startle and provoke you. It is on my not-miss
list."-Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
"In this probing, economically literate analysis, Judith Stein
explains how and why the 1970s became the only 20th century decade
other than that of the Great Depression during which Americans
ended up poorer than they began. By explaining how we got to an
economy that subordinates the manufacture of stuff to one that
trades, finances, and consumes it, Stein provides the fullest story
of the way economic stagnation prepared the way for a new era of
social inequality. Citizens of Obama's America should take
note."-Nelson Lichtenstein, author of The Retail Revolution: How
Wal-mart Created a Brave New World of Business
"Americans perplexed by the use of defective Chinese steel to
rebuild the iconic San Francisco Bay Bridge will find an
explanation for their puzzlement in Judith Stein's Pivotal Decade:
How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the
Seventies. Bringing together political and economic history in the
context of American foreign policy, Stein shows how Americans
allowed the allure of paper profits to undermine our economic
underpinnings."-Fred Siegel, The Cooper Union for Science and
Art
"Judith Stein gets it. Pivotal Decade's illustration and
examination of the last forty years of failed economic policy will
be a powerful text for our generation as well as for the future. We
must learn these lessons once and for all-before it's too
late."-Leo W. Gerard, president, United Steelworkers
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