Third wave capitalism : how money, power, and the pursuit of self-interest have imperiled the American dream / John Ehrenreich. / / John Ehrenreich

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465751503321
• Autore: Ehrenreich John <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : ILR Press, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-5017-0358-7; 1-5017-0359-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.973
• Soggetti: Capitalism - United States - History - 20th century; Capitalism - United States - History - 21st century; Electronic books.; United States Social conditions 20th century; United States Social conditions 21st 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 (pages 197-236) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Third Wave Capitalism -- 2. The Health of Nations -- 3. Getting Schooled -- 4. Race and Poverty: The Betrayal of the American Dream -- 5. The Crisis of the Liberal and Creative Professions -- 6. Anxiety and Rage: The Age of Discontent -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century gave way to corporate capitalism in the twentieth, recent decades have witnessed corporate capitalism evolving into a new phase, which Ehrenreich calls "Third Wave Capitalism. "Third Wave Capitalism is marked by apparent contradictions: Rapid growth in productivity and lagging wages; fabulous wealth for the 1 percent and the persistence of high levels of poverty; increases in the standard of living and increases in mental illness, personal misery, and political rage; the apotheosis of the individual and the deterioration of democracy; increases in life ; expectancy and out-of-control medical costs; an African American president and the incarceration of a large percentage of the black population. Ehrenreich asserts that these phenomena are evidence that a virulent, individualist, winner-take-all ideology and a virtual fusion of government and business have subverted the American dream. Greed and economic inequality reinforce the sense that each of us is "on our own." The result is widespread lack of faith in collective responses to our common problems. The collapse of any organized opposition to business demands makes political solutions ever more difficult to imagine. Ehrenreich traces the impact of these changes on American health care, school reform, income distribution, racial inequities, and personal emotional distress. Not simply a lament, Ehrenreich's book seeks clues for breaking out of our current stalemate and proposes a strategy to create a new narrative in which change becomes possible.

Golden-silk smoke [[electronic resource] ] : a history of tobacco in China, 1550-2010 / / Carol Benedict

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791869603321
• Autore: Benedict Carol (Carol Ann), <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-27770-0; 9786613277701; 0-520-94856-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Classificazione: HIS003000
• Disciplina: 394.1/40951
• Soggetti: Tobacco - China - History; Tobacco - Social aspects - China; Smoking - China - History
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Early Modern Globalization and the Origins of Tobacco in China, 1550-1650 -- 2. The Expansion of Chinese Tobacco ; Production, Consumption, and Trade, 1600-1750 -- 3. Learning to Smoke Chinese-Style, 1644-1750 -- 4. Tobacco in Ming-Qing Medical Culture -- 5. The Fashionable Consumption of Tobacco, 1750-1900 -- 6. The Emergence of the Chinese Cigarette Industry, 1880-1937 -- 7. Socially and Spatially Differentiated Tobacco Consumption during the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937 -- 8. The Urban Cigarette and the Pastoral Pipe: Literary Representations of Smoking in Republican China -- 9. New Women, Modern Girls, and the Decline of Female Smoking in China, 1900-1976 -- Epilogue: Tobacco in the People's Republic of China, 1949-2010 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: From the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the fascinating story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. Carol Benedict follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to the present day. Along the way, she analyzes the factors that have shaped China's highly gendered tobacco cultures, and shows how they have evolved within a broad, comparative world-historical framework. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources-gazetteers, literati jottings (biji), Chinese materia medica, Qing poetry, modern short stories, late Qing and early Republican newspapers, travel memoirs, social surveys, advertisements, and more-Golden-Silk Smoke not only uncovers the long and dynamic history of tobacco in China but also sheds new light on global histories of fashion and consumption.