On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Mark Bennett <bennett.mab at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:35 PM, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>>> Yeah. What's her story anyway?
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>>> 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?
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>>> 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.
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>> 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"
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