The Great U-turn Corporate Restructuring And The Polarizing Of America

This devastating critique by the authors ofThe Deindustrialization of Americadocuments how the economic policies of the Reagan era have damaged the American standard of living and suggests how this trend may be reversed.

Barry Bluestone is Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Senior Fellow at the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs. He is the co-author (with Bennett Harrison) of The Deindustrialization of America and The Great U-Turn. Irving Bluestone is University Professor of Labor Studies at Wayne State University. He retired in 1980 as vice president of the United Auto Workers’ Union (UAW) and as director of its General Motors Department. Bennett Harrison is professor of political economy and planning at MIT. Barry Bluestone is Frank L. Boyden Professor of Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.