1st Edition
Recapitalizing America Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy
Part One: Misunderstanding America 1. Accepted wisdoms 2. The Great Transformation 3. International trade: the real British Disease? 4. Productivity: producing confusion 5. Investment panacea 6. Can recapitalization provide the jobs? Part Two: Moving beyond Reaganism and liberalism 7. Old beginnings: contradictions and tensions in bureaucratic liberalism 8. Progressive departures 9. Breaking political boundaries
Biography
S.M. Miller was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Boston University, USA. He received many honors and awards throughout his career, including Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and the 2009 American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology.
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he directs the Center for Employment Equity. He is also the convener of the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN). His work has won numerous awards, and he has held visiting faculty appointments in Australia, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Sweden. In addition to 100 or so social science articles, he has published four monographs, including Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy (Routledge, 1983), Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation (Cornell, 1993), and Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment since the Civil Rights Act (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012). His most recent monograph, Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach (Oxford, 2019) won the best book awards from two sections of the American Sociological Association. He has served as President of the Southern Sociological Society and Secretary of the American Sociological Association, as well as Chair of both the Economic Sociology and Organizations, Occupations, and Work sections of the American Sociological Association.
Reviews of the first publication:
‘With the continuing erosion of jobs and economic security in the U.S., the call for some sort of ‘industrial policy’ is coming from many quarters. Miller and Tomaskovic-Devey provide us with a serious critique of plans that seek new incentives to recapitalize private industry, and in their place argue for public investment and democratic planning. This book should be read by anyone who worries about the fate of our economy and what might be done about it.’
— Barry Bluestone, Boston College, USA
‘Miller and Tomaskovic-Devey provide a hard-hitting critique of the current array of patent remedies for curing the ailing American economy. More than that, they make an important beginning in sketching a progressive economic and social program for the 1980s and beyond.’
— Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York, USA
