Trucking Country (eBook)

The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

Shane Hamilton (Autor)

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2008
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2879-1 (ISBN)

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HamiltonShane:

Shane Hamilton is associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. With Sarah Phillips, he is author of The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics.Shane Hamilton is associate professor of history and associate director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. With Sarah Phillips, he is author of The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics.

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Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests. Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "e;red state"e; conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars and free-market fanaticism of the 1990s. As Hamilton shows, truckers helped build an economic order that brought low-priced consumer goods to a greater number of Americans. They piloted the big rigs that linked America's factory farms and agribusiness food processors to suburban supermarkets across the country. Trucking Country is the gripping account of truckers whose support of post-New Deal free enterprise was so virulent that it sparked violent highway blockades in the 1970s. It's the story of "e;bandit"e; drivers who inspired country songwriters and Hollywood filmmakers to celebrate the "e;last American cowboy,"e; and of ordinary blue-collar workers who helped make possible the deregulatory policies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan and set the stage for Wal-Mart to become America's most powerful corporation in today's low-price, low-wage economy.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Reihe/Serie: Politics and Society in Modern America
• Zusatzinfo: 5 halftones. 12 tables. 10 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Agribusiness • Agricultural Adjustment Act • Agricultural Economics • Agricultural Policy • Agriculture • American Farm Bureau Federation • American Trucking Associations • BeEF • behalf • Big Business • Brannan Plan • Bulk tank • bureaucrat • Capitalism • cattle • chain store • Commodity • Customer • Dairy • dairy product • Deregulation • Earl Butz • Economic Geography • economic interventionism • economic liberalism • Economic Power • economist • economy • Employment • Expense • Farmer • Farmers' Holiday Association • Farm income • feedlot • food industry • Food Policy • Food Politics • food processor • Freight rate • Frozen food • General Motors • grocery store • henry a. wallace • Housewife • Ideology • income • industrialisation • International Brotherhood of Teamsters • Interstate Commerce Commission • Jimmy Carter • Jimmy Hoffa • laborer • labour law • Legislation • livestock • lobbying • Manufacturing • Marketing • Market power • Mass production • meat industry • Office of Price Administration • Owner-operator • pasteurization • Pesticide • Phyllis Schlafly • Policy • Political culture • Political Economy • Politician • Politics • Populism • Price controls • Price support • Pricing • Princeton University Press • Production Control • Progressive Era • progressivism • raw milk • refrigeration • Regulation • Ronald Reagan • shortage • Small Business • supermarket • Supply (economics) • Tax • Teamster • Technology • Trade Union • truck driver • United States • United States Department of Agriculture • United States Secretary of Agriculture • Vegetable • wage • Welfare State • white flight • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2879-1 / 1400828791
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2879-1 / 9781400828791