| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 297 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index. |
| Summary |
"The untold story of what once made America's economy great--and why it now keeps falling into crisis." -- inside front book jacket flap. |
| Contents |
Winston-Salem, 1943: "I'm with them" -- McMinnville, 1978: the clear-cut American dream -- Ohio, 2006: this is not your life -- Southern California, 2013: the jobs are not coming back -- Winston-Salem, 2013: working harder, falling behind -- Winston-Salem to Queens, 1960: torching the blockades -- Aggregate consequences: a story in numbers -- Chicago, 2011: forward progress, lost -- Washington, D.C., 2016: a lie is sold -- Manhattan, 2016: the whole chessboard -- Building the riches of this land: how to get the middle class back on track -- Winston-Salem, 2019: "how did we steal something you threw away?" -- SoHo, 2019: uncommon capability -- Turners Falls, 2019: silent factories, empty orchards -- Washington, D.C., 2007-2019: no quick fixes, ever -- Green family home, 2019: eventually, you get more time -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
For nearly two centuries the best jobs in the United States were walled off to everyone but white men. After World War II, women, immigrants and black men began to tear those walls down. They built the greatest middle class in human history-- but the steady disappearance of good jobs, followed by economic crises, locked millions of people out of the American Dream. Tankersley traces the origins and destiny of the American middle class, examines why it is under siege-- and reveals a path to the revival of what can again be a great American economy. -- adapted from jacket |
| Subject |
Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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Middle class -- United States -- History.
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Middle class -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Unemployment -- United States -- History.
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Unemployment -- Social aspects.
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Unemployed -- Family relationships.
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Income distribution -- United States -- History.
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Income distribution -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Plant shutdowns -- United States -- History.
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Manufacturing industries -- United States -- History.
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Labor -- United States.
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Equality -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Work environment -- United States.
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Corporate culture -- United States.
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Job satisfaction -- United States.
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Stagnation (Economics)
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Poverty -- United States.
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Work environment. (OCoLC)fst01180270
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Unemployment -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01161254
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Unemployment. (OCoLC)fst01161213
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Unemployed -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01161167
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Stagnation (Economics) (OCoLC)fst01131349
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Poverty. (OCoLC)fst01074093
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Plant shutdowns. (OCoLC)fst01065684
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Manufacturing industries. (OCoLC)fst01008071
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Labor. (OCoLC)fst00989798
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Job satisfaction. (OCoLC)fst00983720
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Income distribution -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00968686
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Income distribution. (OCoLC)fst00968670
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Equality -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00914460
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Corporate culture. (OCoLC)fst00879624
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Middle class. (OCoLC)fst01020437
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Middle class -- Economic conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01020444
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Tankersley, Jim. Riches of this land. First edition. New York : PublicAffairs, 2020 9781541767843 (OCoLC)1183471361 |
| ISBN |
9781541767836 (hardcover) |
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1541767837 (hardcover) |
