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Why, in an era of downsized corporation, stagnant wages and decreasing job security, do Americans continue to embrace free market capitalism? This volume attempts to explain the paradoxical relationship between America's love of unrestrained capitalism and the real effects it has on the daily lives of American workers. The author argues that a more proactive government - one that cares for its citizens with social programmes and safety nets - is needed to compensate for the economic instability bred by unchecked capitalist expansion.
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"Joel Blau has written a thoughtful and cogent analysis of the state of American society today, the impact of the market system on working families, and the consequences likely to flow from weakening the safety net further. The 'Next Deal' solutions he proposes - full employment policies, living wages, protection of the right to organize, stepped up infrastructural investments and meaningful social welfare protections - are cornerstones of any economic and political democracy, which lawmakers would do well to keep in mind as they shape policy for the 21st century."― John Sweeney, President, AFL CIO
"Blau has compiled a powerful brief against the neo-laissez faire doctrines that have dominated American economic and social welfare policy for three decades."―Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, authors of Breaking the American Social Contract
"Clearly written, closely argued, and carefully documented, Illusions of Prosperity is an indispensable guide to public policy in these uncertain times. Blau not only charts how the American government's embrace of laissez-faire ideology has wreaked havoc...he tells us what can be done to undo the damage. Must reading for anyone who cares about what's happening to the average American."―Charles Noble, Professor of Political Science, California State University, Long Beach, and the author of Welfare As We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State
"Blau's analysis is rigorous, readable, and prophetic. It should be widely consulted."―Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
About the Author
Joel Blau is an Associate Professor, and Director of the Ph.D. Program, at the School of Social Welfare, State University of New York, Stony Brook. He is the author of The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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- PublisherOxford University Press Inc
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0195089936
- ISBN 13 9780195089936
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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