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The Economic Crisis and American Society

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Manuel Castells
2014
Published by: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Taking a hard look at the crisis afflicting Western economies in recent years, Manuel Castells suggests that the very structures that fostered economic growth since 1945 are the same structures that are now undermining these economics. Pinpointing the new forms of the capitalist mode of production and the contradictory nature of its class relations as the root of the problem, he offers a comprehensive critique of American society and its economy.

Originally published in 1980.

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Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-vi

CONTENTS

pp. vii-ix

LIST OF TABLES

pp. x-xi

LIST OF FIGURES

pp. xii-xii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

pp. xiii-xvi

INTRODUCTION

pp. 3-13

Toward a Social Theory of EconomicCrises in Advanced Capitalism

pp. 14-77

What Happened: The Roots and theDevelopment of the Economic Crisisin the United States

pp. 78-137

Capitalist Contradictions andClass Relationships in the AmericanSocial Structure

pp. 138-214

Class Interests, Policies for theCrisis, and the Political Process

pp. 215-254

CONCLUSION

pp. 255-264

NOTES

pp. 265-278

INDEX

pp. 279-286
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