> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Eric wrote:
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>> Naomi Klein, a white woman well under 50, makes a big deal of it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah. What's her story anyway?
>>>
>>
>> She seems to want to make the "neoliberal" era seem like more of a break
>> with its predecessor than is warranted. So now the capitalists just lie and
>> steal, unlike the good old days when they ran production?
>>
>> Doug
>>
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>
> Speaking of the good old days has anyone recently been doing any reading
> about late 19th century capitalism?
> I read Martin Sklar's excellent book "The Corporate Reconstruction of
> American Capitalism" many years ago but that's really the only book related
> to the subject I have read.
> I'm looking for writing concerning the social history of American
> capitalism before the Progressive Era which Sklar's book doesn't really
> cover.
> Anyone read anything good on the subject that they can recommend?
> I find myself having quite a bit of free time lately and with cold weather
> is just around the corner I feel like I can easily justify reading several
> books on the subject.
>
> John Thornton
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There are Richard Bensel's two volumes, "Yankee Leviathan: The Origin of Central State Authority in American, 1859 - 1877" and "The Political Economy of America Industrialization: 1877 - 1900"