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The Education Myth
- How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy
Engelsk Hardback
The Education Myth
- How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy
Engelsk Hardback

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The Education Myth questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the only, way for Americans to access economic opportunity. As Jon Shelton shows, linking education to economic well-being was not politically inevitable. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for instance, public education was championed as a way to help citizens learn how to participate in a democracy. By the 1930s, public education, along with union rights and social security, formed an important component of a broad-based fight for social democracy. Shelton demonstrates that beginning in the 1960s, the political power of the education myth choked off powerful social democratic alternatives like A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin's Freedom Budget. The nation's political center was bereft of any realistic ideas to guarantee economic security and social dignity for the majority of Americans, particularly those without college degrees. Embraced first by Democrats like Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, Republicans like George W. Bush also pushed the education myth. The result, over the past four decades, has been the emergence of a deeply inequitable economy and a drastically divided political system.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781501768149
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
150176814X
Udg. Dato:
15 mar 2023
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
Cornell University Press
Oplagsdato:
15 mar 2023
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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