Wall Street's war on workers : how mass layoffs and greed are destroying the working class and what to do about it /
Layoffs upend people's lives, cause enormous stress and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we conside...
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White River Junction, Vermont :
Chelsea Green Publishing,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The destructiveness of mass layoffs
- White working-class blues: who is the white working class and why are the Democrats abandoning them?
- Mingo capitalism: how Wall Street destroyed jobs in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and how that cratered support for the democrats
- White working class woke? Increasing liberalism on divisive social issues
- Are you a reactionary populist? How social attitudes of the white working class are similar to those of other classes and ethnic groups
- The use and abuse of populism: the mischaracterization of white working-class politics
- Before greed was good: the unwinding of post-World War II working-class prosperity
- After greed was good: how Wall Street looting normalized mass layoffs
- Halting mass layoffs: a bridge too far for democrats? How Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, and Bernie Sanders refused to intervene
- There is another way: how a major capitalist democracy avoids mass layoffs
- TINA's last dance? Facing the fatalism of mass layoff capitalism
- Isn't automation the problem?
- Toward a progressive populism: policies to halt mass layoffs
- Postscript: A challenge to Oberlin College.