1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003084930403321

Titolo

A Fuzzy Approach to the Empirical Identification of Industrial Districts / by Gisella Facchinetti, Giovanni Mastroleo, Sergio Paba, January 2000

Collana

Materiali di discussione / Dipartimento di economia politica. Università di Modena ; 299

Locazione

SES

Collocazione

Paper

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780373903321

Autore

Iton Richard

Titolo

Solidarity blues [[electronic resource] ] : race, culture, and the American left / / Richard Iton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2000

ISBN

979-88-908678-3-4

0-8078-6076-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

320.51/3/0973

Soggetti

Racism - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Radicalism - United States - History - 20th century

Right and left (Political science) - History - 20th century

Socialism - United States - History - 20th century

United States Race relations Political aspects

United States Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; 1. Gateway Blues; 2. Race, Ethnicity, and the



Cooperative Commonwealth; 3. Southern Politics and the Unmaking of the American Left; 4. Beyond the Left I: A New Deal for an Old Social Issue; 5. Beyond the Left II: Making the Public Good; 6. Memphis Diversities: Race, Class, Identity, and Popular Culture; 7. Making Love in America; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left. A preference for individualism, the effects of prosperity, and the miscalculations of different components of the Left, including the labor movement, have been cited, among other factors, as possible explanations for this puzzling aspect of American exceptionalism. But these arguments, says Richard Iton, overlook a crucial factor--the powerful influence of race upon American life.Iton argues that the failure of the American Left lies in its inability to come to grips with the centrality of race