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Additional authors

1. Howe, Irving
2. Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989
3. Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP

Description

1. x, 519 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. USA. Compilation of essays examining the need for radical social change and proposing future social policies for the 1970's - includes papers on youth, poverty, the social role and social status of women, the defence industry, civil rights, labour relations, police violence, Black political participation, population growth, pollution, public education, crime, prison systems, political leadership, urbanization, foreign policy, etc. References.

Subject

1. 1960-1980
2. Geschichte 1970-1972
3. Social conditions
4. Sozialer Wandel
5. Sozialismus
6. social change
7. future
8. social policy
9. youth
10. poverty
11. social role
12. social status
13. women
14. defence industry
15. civil rights
16. labour relations
17. police
18. Blacks
19. political participation
20. population growth
21. pollution
22. public education
23. crime
24. prison
25. political leadership
26. urbanization
27. foreign policy
28. changement social
29. futur
30. politique sociale
31. jeunesse
32. pauvreté
33. rôle social
34. statut social
35. femmes
36. industrie d'armement
37. droits du citoyen
38. relations de travail
39. Noirs
40. participation politique
41. croissance démographique
42. enseignement public
43. criminalité
44. direction politique
45. urbanisation
46. politique étrangère
47. cambio social
48. futuro
49. política social
50. juventud
51. pobreza
52. papel social
53. condición social
54. mujeres
55. industria armamentista
56. derechos civiles
57. relaciones laborales
58. policía
59. negros
60. participación política
61. crecimiento demográfico
62. contaminación ambiental
63. enseñanza pública
64. delito
65. prisión
66. dirección política
67. urbanización
68. política exterior
69. United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980
70. United States
71. USA
72. USA
73. Etats-Unis
74. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. reference.
2. référence bibliographique.
3. referencia.

Contents

1. American society: burdens, problems, solutions / Michael Harrington -- What's the trouble?: social crisis, crisis of civilization, or both? / Irving Howe -- Between apostles and technicians: mind-blowing and problem-solving / Robert Lekachman -- Social priorities, economic policy, and the state / Eugene Keller -- The counterculture: tranquilizer or revolutionary ideology? / Jesse Pitts -- Being young in a postindustrial society / Erazim V. Kohák -- Generation gap or gap within a generation? / Gus Tyler -- State within a state: what is the military-industrial complex? / Sanford Gottlieb -- Corporate takeover and popular challenge / Ben B. Seligman -- Could it happen here?: civil liberties in a national emergency / Alan Dershowitz -- Violence: the police, the militants, and the rest of us / Michael Walzer -- Women -terms of liberation / Alice S. Rossi -- Labor's decade -maybe / Brendan and Patricia Cayo Sexton -- The agonies of Black militancy / Jervis Anderson -- Black politics: a new power / Martin Kilson -- Population growth and social policy / Dennis H. Wrong -- The politics of pollution / Michael Harrington -- Perishable good: social ferment in the American religious world / Richard Robbins -- What do the poor need?: (money) / Lewis Coser -- Public schools: the next decade / David K. Cohen -- Crime on and off the streets / Bernard Rosenberg -- A better system of prisons?: decentralization and participation / Lewis Lipsitz -- Nixon and neo-Jeffersonianism / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -- The city: nostalgia, illusion, and reality / Sidney H. Aronson -- The new shape of foreign policy / Henry M. Pachter -- What do we want right now?: legislative proposals for reform / Leon Shull and Stina Santiestevan -- A political strategy for radical liberals / Arnold S. Kaufman -- Coalition politics revisited / Emanuel Geltman and Stanley Plastrik.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.