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Forging rivals : race, class, law, and the collapse of postwar liberalism

Schiller, Reuel Edward

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\"The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism. But by the mid-1970s, postwar liberalism was in a shambles: while its commitment to pluralism remained, its economic policies had been abandoned, and the Democratic Party, its primary political vehicle, was collapsing. Schiller attributes this demise to the legal architecture of postwar liberalism, arguing that postwar liberalism's goals of advancing economic egalitarianism and promoting pluralism ultimately conflicted with each other. Through the use of specific historical examples, Schiller demonstrates that postwar liberalism was riddled with legal and institutional contradictions that undermined progressive politics in the mid-twentieth-century United States\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Discrimination in employment California History 20th century Case studies. / Civil rights movements California History 20th century Case studies. / Labor unions California History 20th century Case studies. / Labor laws United States History 20th century. / Liberalism United States History 20th century. / HISTORY / United States / General. / United States Politics and government 20th century. / United States Race relations History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9781107012264, 1107012260, 9781107628335, 1107628334

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD4903.5.U58 S27 2015	1	BOOK	BUSINESS