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About the Author

Jefferson Cowie is an associate professor of history at Cornell University. He is the author of Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (The New Press), which received the Philip Taft Prize for the Best Book in Labor History for 2000. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Praise for Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class…

In near epic proportions, Cowie covers . . . the demise of the mythic American working class. A must read.
—Choice

Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since
E. P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class.
—New Politics

[C]aptures the contradictory nature of 1970s politics better than almost any other [book] ever written about the period.
—Dissent

[A] fun read with cultural insight that makes connections I hadn’t, from Saturday Night Fever to Dog Day Afternoon, Bruce Springsteen to Devo.
—Salon.com