{"product_id":"running-steel-running-america","title":"Running Steel, Running America","description":"The history of modern liberalism has been hotly debated in\u003cbr\u003econtemporary politics and the academy. Here, Judith Stein uses\u003cbr\u003ethe steel industry--long considered fundamental to the U.S.\u003cbr\u003eeconomy--to examine liberal policies and priorities after World\u003cbr\u003eWar II. In a provocative revision of postwar American history,\u003cbr\u003eshe argues that it was the primacy of foreign commitments and the\u003cbr\u003eoutdated economic policies of the state, more than the nation's\u003cbr\u003eracial conflicts, that transformed American liberalism from the\u003cbr\u003epowerful progressivism of the New Deal to the feeble policies of\u003cbr\u003ethe 1990s.\u003cbr\u003e     Stein skillfully integrates a number of narratives usually\u003cbr\u003etreated in isolation--labor, civil rights, politics, business,\u003cbr\u003eand foreign policy--while underscoring the state's focus on the\u003cbr\u003esteel industry and its workers. By showing how those who\u003cbr\u003eintervened in the industry treated such economic issues as free\u003cbr\u003etrade and the globalization of steel production in isolation from\u003cbr\u003ethe social issues of the day--most notably civil rights and the\u003cbr\u003eimplementation of affirmative action--Stein advances a larger\u003cbr\u003eargument about postwar liberalism. Liberal attempts to address\u003cbr\u003esocial inequalities without reference to the fundamental and\u003cbr\u003echanging workings of the economy, she says, have led to the\u003cbr\u003efoundering of the New Deal state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Longleaf Services on behalf of Univ of N. Carolina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52650325148015,"sku":"9780807847275","price":372.16,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0807847275.jpg?v=1770667185","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/running-steel-running-america","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}