FOR FURTHER READING Readers new to issues taken up in this book may find the following introductory readings of interest. Further references can be found in the notes for each chapter. Diverse treatments of the deepening political-economic problems both of the United States and of post-welfare state systems in general include: Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy (New York: Broadway Books, 2002); William Ophuls, Requiem for Modern Politics (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997); Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America (Cambridge, Mass.: South End Press, 1998); Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, The Case Against the Global Economy (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996); William Appleman Williams, Empire as a Way of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000); Mancur Olson, The Logic of Collective Action (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971); Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987). Russell Jacoby’s The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy (New York: Basic Books, 1999) defines the challenge to modern intellectuals. Marcus G. Raskin’s Liberalism: The Genius of American Ideals (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003) attempts a far-ranging critique. A much neglected but important perspective is L.S. Stavrianos, The Promise of the Coming Dark Age (San Francisco: Freeman,1976). Still useful contributions to understanding the political-ideological crisis are Karl Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936), and Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1957) Important analyses of specific underlying factors include: Michael Goldfield, The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987); Michael 1 Goldfield, The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics (New York: Norton, 1997); and Thomas Byrne Edsall with Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (New York: Norton, 1991); Dani Rodrik, Has Globalization Gone Too Far? (Washington, D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1997); and David C. Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, (San Francisco: Kumarian and Berrett-Koehler, 2001). For an analysis of the “American exceptionalism” thesis, see Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks, It Didn't Happen Here (New York: Norton, 2000). Basic information on inequality can be found in: Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and Heather Boushey, State of Working America: 2002-03 (Ithaca: ILR Press, 2003); Eugene Smolensky et al in the Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Vol. III, The Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); and Frank Levy, New Dollars and Dreams (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998). On wealth distribution, see: Chuck Collins, Betsy Leondar-Wright, and Holly Sklar, Shifting Fortunes (Boston: United for a Fair Economy, 1999); and Edward Wolff, Top Heavy (New York: New Press, 2002). On the racial wealth gap, see Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth (New York: Routledge, 1995). Classic conservative treatments of liberty include Henry C. Simons, Economic Policy for a Free Society (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948); Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962); F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (London: Routledge, 1944); and Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974). Liberal and other treatments include: David Cole and James X. Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security (New 2 York: The New Press, 2002); Nat Hentoff, The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003); Alan Ryan, Property (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987); Stephen Holmes and Cass R. Sunstein, The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (New York: Norton, 1999); G.A. Cohen, Self-Ownership, Freedom and Equality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); and Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (New York: Norton, 1998). Also important are Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1990) and Philippe Van Parijs, Real Freedom for All (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). Studies of the relationship of time to liberty and to individual fulfillment include: Juliet B. Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1992); Sebastian de Grazia, Of Time, Work, and Leisure (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1962); Andre Gorz, Reclaiming Work: Beyond the Wage Based Society, trans. Chris Turner, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1999); Frithjof Bergmann, On Being Free (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977); Karl Hinrichs, William Roche, and Carmen Sirianni (eds.), Working Time in Transition: The Political Economy of Working Hours in Industrial Nations (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991); and Jerome M. Segal, Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple Living (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1999). Recent discussions of civil society issues begin with Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993) and Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Other important studies include: Eric Uslaner, The Moral Foundations of Trust (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Robert K. Fullinwider, ed., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal (Lanham, Md.: Rowman 3 & Littlefield, 1999); and Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina, (eds.), Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999). An instructive over-view and clarification of the field is Michael Edwards, Civil Society, (Malden, Mass.: Polity Press, 2004). On issues of democracy in general, good points of departure include: see Jane J. Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy (New York: Basic Books, 1980); Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984); Stephen L. Elkin, City and Regime in the American Republic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987); Michael J. Sandel, Democracy's Discontent (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1996); Carole Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970); C.B. McPherson, The Real World of Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972); C. Douglas Lummis, Radical Democracy (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996); and Charles Lindblom, Politics and Markets (New York: Basic Books, 1977). A helpful historical overview of environmental issues is J. R McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: Norton, 2000). Of the vast literature on environmental questions of particular relevance to the argument of this book are Ronald Inglehart, Modemization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997); Fred Hirsch, Social Limits to Growth (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976). Juliet Schor, The Overspent American (New York: Basic Books, 1998); Robert Frank, Luxury Fever (New York: Free Press, 1999); and Herman E. Daly and John B. Cobb, Jr., For the Common Good (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989). Important data sources include: WorldWatch’s State of the World and Vital 4 Signs; the World Resource Institute’s World Resources; and the OECD’s Environmental Outlook. On changing immigration and ethnicity patterns, see: Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand and Nolan J. Malone, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002); Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City (New York: Verso, 2000); and Victor M. Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres, Latino Metropolis (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000). The Center for Immigration Studies offers a number of studies on the political impact of continuing immigration, including, for instance; James G. Gimpel and Karen Kaufmann, “Impossible Dream or Distant Reality? Republican Efforts to Attract Latino Voters” (Washington, D.C.: Center for Immigration Studies, August 2001). On the political-economics of parenting, gender and caregiving, see Ann Crittenden, The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001); Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift (New York: Avon Books, 1989); Suzanne W. Helburn and Barbara R. Bergmann, America’s Childcare Problem: The Way Out (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002); Nancy Folbre, The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values (New York: The New Press, 2001); and Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict, and What to Do About It (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). On gender and the spatial organization of the city, see Women and the American City, ed. Catherine R. Stimpson, Elsa Dixler, Martha J. Nelson, and Kathryn B. Yatrakis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), in particular the essays by Ann Markusen (“City Spatial Structure, Women’s Household Work, and National Urban Policy”) and Dolores Hayden (“What Would A Non-Sexist City Be Like? Speculations on Housing, Urban Design, and Human Work”). 5 Important critical examinations of fiscal matters and tax policies are: James O’Connor, The Fiscal Crisis of the State