Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 ''The Great Compression'' -- 2 1971: Affluence Challenged and Restored -- 3 1972: The Last Election of the 1960s -- 4 OPEC and the Trade Unionism of the Developing World -- 5 1975: ''Capitalism Is on the Run'' -- 6 1976: Morality and Economy...

In this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory-the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose practices, high wages, and regulated capital produced...