 | Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal Subjects: Pensions -- Political aspects -- United States; Pensions -- Economic aspects -- United States; Pension trusts -- United States; Industrial relations -- United States -- History; Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth. Michael A. McCarthy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Marquette University. |
