Who Rules America?: Power and Politics in the Year 2000Sociologist Domhoff argues that there is a power elite in the United States comprising a corporate community, a social upper class, and a policy formation network that intersect with each other in significant ways and score at the top of four power indicators who benefits, who governs, who wins on p |
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... labor pro- posal for a new governmental Agency for Consumer Advocacy in the mid - 1970s.64 It created the Clean Air Working Group that battled an environmental - labor National Clean Air Coalition to a standstill from 1980 to 1990 on ...
... labor pro- posal for a new governmental Agency for Consumer Advocacy in the mid - 1970s.64 It created the Clean Air Working Group that battled an environmental - labor National Clean Air Coalition to a standstill from 1980 to 1990 on ...
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... labor lobbyists showed that most Democratic senators and congressmen from northern , eastern , and blue - collar districts loyally supported labor's goals , they also revealed that labor simply could not muster the strength to gain ...
... labor lobbyists showed that most Democratic senators and congressmen from northern , eastern , and blue - collar districts loyally supported labor's goals , they also revealed that labor simply could not muster the strength to gain ...
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... labor markets by limiting immigration . The immigration of low - wage labor has been essen- tial to the corporate community throughout American history . Immigration also has been the route to freedom and a better life for tens of ...
... labor markets by limiting immigration . The immigration of low - wage labor has been essen- tial to the corporate community throughout American history . Immigration also has been the route to freedom and a better life for tens of ...
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Power and Class in the United States | 1 |
The Corporate Community | 33 |
The Origins of the Corporate Community | 40 |
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