The Great Exception by Jefferson Cowie
The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
A concise political and social history arguing that the mid-20th-century American settlement—marked by strong unions, broad social protections, and relatively shared prosperity—was an exceptional and contingent achievement; the book traces how labor struggles, institutional accommodations, and racially limited concessions produced that era and then shows how conservative backlash, corporate reorganizing, and the weakening of organized labor dismantled the settlement and paved the way for rising inequality and precarious work.
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