Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies.
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010.
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Author Information:
- Judith Stein, Department of History, The City College of New York.
- Judith Stein (1940–2017), Wikipedia.
- Judith Stein, "Politics and Economics in the 1970s," City University of New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 27 March 2012.
Another book that covers similar ground as Pivotal Decade but which has far more detail on the economic factors that caused the political changes since the 1970s is:
Thomas Ferguson & Joel Rogers. Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics. New York: Hill & Wang, 1986.
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My post on Right Turn is here.
Book Reviews:
- Joshua C. Hall, Review, EH.net, August 2010.
- Mark Schmitt, "When It All Went Wrong," The American Prospect, 31 August 2010.
A review of Stein's Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s, Cowie's Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and Kalman's Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980. - Rick Perlstein, "That Seventies Show," The Nation, 20 October 2010.
Reviews many books on the 1970s. - Joel Suarez, "How We Got Here: Stein, Cowie, and Arrighi on the Post-Industrial Economy," Tropics of Meta, 09 February 2011.
- Steve Fraser, "Thanks to the Tea Party," London Review of Books, 17 March 2011.
A review of Stein's Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s and Cowie's Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. - Jennifer Klein, "Apocalypse Then, and Now," Democracy, Issue #19, Winter 2011.
A review of Stein's Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s and Cowie's Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. - David Potash, "Decline in the 1970s – A Pivotal Decade," The Digital Quad, 10 January 2013.
- HNN Staff, "It's Rick Perlstein vs. Judith Stein in a Three Round Fight," History News Network, 20 October 2014.
(mostly in academic journals, not completely readable online for free, require a subscription or access through an institution)
- Ruth Milkman, "Commentary on Judith Stein's Pivotal Decade," The Journal of The Historical Society, Volume 11, Issue 3, pages 287–292, September 2011.
- Peter Temin, Review, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Volume 42, Number 2, Autumn 2011, pp. 315-316.
- Kim Phillips-Fein, "Decisive Decade: Re-evaluating the Seventies," Dissent, Volume 58, Number 1, Winter 2011, pp. 90-94.
A review of Stein's Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s, Cowie's Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and Kalman's Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980. - Craig Phelan et al., "Labor History symposium: Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade," Labor History, Volume 52, Issue 3, 2011, pages 323-346.
- Charles L. Ponce de Leon, "How Pivotal Were the Seventies?," Reviews in American History, Volume 40, Number 1, March 2012, pp. 128-138.
A review of Stein's Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the 1970s and Cowie's Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. - David Farber, Review, American Historical Review, Volume 117, Number 2, April 2012, pp. 563-564.
Book cover photo: Line at a gas station, 15 June 1979.
