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" Keeping up with the Dow Joneses : "
Vijay Prashad.
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892569
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Prashad, Vijay.
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Keeping up with the Dow Joneses : : debt, prison, workfare /\ Vijay Prashad.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: South End Press,, ©2003.
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xxvi, 214 pages ;; 22 cm
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0896086895
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: 0896086909
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: 9780896086906
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"First appeared in a much briefer version ... in New Delhi (Summer 2002)"--P [vii].
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Revised edition of: American Scheme. 2001.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: America -- Debt -- Prison -- Workfare -- Movement.
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"In his latest book of interlinked essays, cultural critic Vijay Prashad examines the contradictions of the American economy. He assesses a range of related issues: the oft-vaunted US economy, propped up by the rising debt of poor and middle-class workers; welfare policies that punish those attempting to escape the grip of debt and poverty; and a prison industry that regulates and houses the unemployed, as well as a reserve army of laborers." "Prashad argues that the advent of mass production and advertising has converted citizens into consumers whose desires are captured by the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses." Yet, as Prashad so persuasively demonstrates, "keeping up with the Joneses" is a trap: Americans have gone into massive consumer debt, with the poorest forty percent of the public borrowing money to compensate for stagnant incomes, not to spend on luxuries. Only the richest twenty percent borrow money to invest in stocks. Not surprisingly, in the last few years, income and wealth differentials have risen to record highs. By making crystal-clear connections between the economy, welfare reform and the profit-driven prison industrial complex, Prashad offers a vision for a sustainable and vital anti-imperialist movement."--Jacket.
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Debt-- United States.
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Marginality, Social-- United States.
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Prisons-- United States.
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Public welfare-- United States.
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Social movements-- United States.
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Welfare recipients-- Employment-- United States.
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Debt.
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Economic history.
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Marginality, Social.
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Prisons.
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Public welfare.
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Social movements.
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Welfare recipients-- Employment.
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United States, Economic conditions, 1945-
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United States, Economic conditions, 2001-2009.
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United States.
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305.5/6/0973
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HC106.83.P73 2003
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Prashad, Vijay.
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