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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Deunionizing the private sector -- Taking aim at the 88% : remaking the non-union economy -- The destruction of public schooling -- Silencing labor's voice : the campaign to remove unions from politics. |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Summary |
In the aftermath of the 2010 Citizens United decision, it's become commonplace to note the growing political dominance of a small segment of the economic elite. But what exactly are those members of the elite doing with their newfound influence? The One Percent Solution provides an answer to this question for the first time. Gordon Lafer's book is a comprehensive account of legislation promoted by the nation's biggest corporate lobbies across all fifty state legislatures and encompassing a wide range of labor and economic policies. In an era of growing economic insecurity, it turns out that one of the main reasons life is becoming harder for American workers is a relentless--and concerted--offensive by the country's best-funded and most powerful political forces: corporate lobbies empowered by the Supreme Court to influence legislative outcomes with an endless supply of cash. These actors have successfully championed hundreds of new laws that lower wages, eliminate paid sick leave, undo the right to sue over job discrimination, and cut essential public services. Lafer shows how corporate strategies have been shaped by twenty-first-century conditions--including globalization, economic decline, and the populism reflected in both the Trump and Sanders campaigns of 2016. Perhaps most important, Lafer shows that the corporate legislative agenda has come to endanger the scope of democracy itself. For anyone who wants to know what to expect from corporate-backed Republican leadership in Washington, D.C., there is no better guide than this record of what the same set of actors has been doing in the state legislatures under its control. |
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In English. |
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Corporate power -- United States.
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Corporations -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Business and politics -- United States.
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Business and education -- United States.
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Labor policy -- United States.
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Labor unions -- United States.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Business and education. (OCoLC)fst01429992
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Business and politics. (OCoLC)fst00842401
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Corporate power. (OCoLC)fst00879682
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Corporations -- Political aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00879902
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Labor policy. (OCoLC)fst00990116
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Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lafer, Gordon. One percent solution. Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501703065 (DLC) 2016046219 |
| Standard No. |
10.7591/9781501708183 doi |
| ISBN |
9781501708176 (electronic bk.) |
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1501708171 (electronic bk.) |
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9781501708183 (electronic bk.) |
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150170818X (electronic bk.) |
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