01627    a2200229   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001500136072001300151072002100164072002200185100002400207245010100231250000600332260003200338300001000370520101700380161205256820250317100408.0250312042013GB                   eng    a9781612052564  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 36.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJHB2thema7 aJHB2bic7 aSOC0260002bisac7 a338.7409732bisac1 aG. Williams Domhoff10aMyth of Liberal AscendancybCorporate Dominance from the Great Depression to the Great Recession  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20131130  a320 p  bBased on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government affairs, affecting the fate of American workers up to the present day. While FDR's New Deal brought sweeping legislation, the tide turned quickly after 1938. From that year onward nearly every major new economic law passed by Congress showed the mark of corporate dominance. Domhoff accessibly portrays documents of the Committee's vital influence in the halls of government, supported by his interviews with several of its key employees and trustees. Domhoff concludes that in terms of economic influence, liberalism was on a long steady decline, despite two decades of post-war growing equality, and that ironically, it was the successes of the civil rights, feminist, environmental, and gay-lesbian movements-not a new corporate mobilisation-that led to the final defeat of the liberal-labour alliance after 1968.