Post-Industrial Capitalism Exploring Economic Inequality in America [Paperback]

An alternative framework for examining and explaining the widening economic and social stratification within United States society is provided in this book. Until now, two points of view - Marxist and industrialist - have dominated the discourse. Joel I Nelson offers a comprehensive explanation of inequality and locates its source in the transformation of capitalism, free market ideology and the evolution of US business.An alternative framework for examining and explaining the widening economic and social stratification within United States society is provided in this book. Until now, two points of view - Marxist and industrialist - have dominated the discourse. Joel I Nelson offers a comprehensive explanation of inequality and locates its source in the transformation of capitalism, free market ideology and the evolution of US business.Post-Industrial Capitalism
PART ONE: THE ECONOMY UNDER POST-INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
Knowledge and Dead-End Jobs
The Janus Face of the Service Economy
The Widening Circle of Competition
PART TWO: POLITICS UNDER POST-INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM
Unions, Politics and the Frontiers of Social Control
The Privatization of Welfare and the Triumph of the Market
Postscript
Inequality Without Class Conflict