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"Americans have always believed that economic growth leads to job growth. In this groundbreaking book, Stanley Aronowitz argues that this is no longer true. Just Around the Corner looks at the state of the American economy as planned by democrats and republicans over the last thirty years. In this book, Aronowitz finds that economic growth has become ""delinked"" from job creation, and that unemployment and underemployment are a permanent condition of our economy. He traces the historical roots of this state of affairs, and sees under the surface of booms and busts a continuum of econcomic austerity that creates a boom for the rich at the expense of most Americans. He then examines the cultural and political processes by which we have come to describe and accept economics in the US. And lastly, he proposes a concrete plan of action that would guarantee employment and living wages for all Americans. In both measured analysis and persuasive reasoning, Stanley Aronowitz's Just Around the Corner is an indispensable guide to our current economic predicament and a bold challenge to economists and policymakers."

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Aronowitz writes well and makes a persuasive case that will no doubt be challenged by mainstream neo-liberal economists. But it will be difficult to undermine the solid empirical data he has amassed to show that the problem of economic growth without sustainable and remunerative employment presents a huge challenge for the future. The Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Aronowitz's book promises to be [yet another!] of his incisive and timely political interventions - a clarion call both to the American labor movement (and American workers who wait for it to act on their behalf) and left activists. Daniel Walkowitz Like such works as Robert Pollin's Contours of Descent, it is a telling indictment of the neoliberal consensus. And like Bennett and Harrison's Growing Prosperity, it makes a convincing case for public job creation and public infrastructure. But its historical explication of how we arrived at this juncture, its discussion of just what a job is, and its analysis of the role that unions and the left have played or failed to play make it a distinctive contribution to current policy debates. John Buell

Stanley Aronowitz is the most important scholar on the past and present U.S. working class. From his classic False Promises to this courageous and timely book, he has put forward the most profound analysis and challenging vision of deep democracy here and abroad. -Cornel West, Princeton University Just Around the Corner is a highly readable and thought-provoking examination of the structural joblessness that is affecting wider segments of the population. This timely book should be read and debated by all those concerned about the future of American workers in the global economy. -William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University

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Stanley Aronowitz is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and editor of Temple University Press's Labor in Crisis series.

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