Pocketbook Politics:
Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
Meg Jacobs

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"Meg Jacobs has produced an extraordinarily lucid analysis of how consumers allied with trade unions to influence prices and wages. In a provocative and mind-bending book, she demonstrates how the efforts of quite ordinary people led to political agendas that shaped the twentiet-century state."--Alice Kessler-Harris, author of In Pursuit of Equity: Gender and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

"Written with unusual narrative power, Pocketbook Politics makes the political economy of purchasing power and mass consumption central to our understanding of modern America. In achieving a fresh analytical narrative of economic ideas, policymaking, and popular politics, this major book forces an engagement with issues and historical understandings long cast in other terms. It also sets a standard for the new political history its author has done so much to promote."--Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University

"Meg Jacobs has written a highly significant book that, by illuminating major transitions in twentieth-century politics, recasts our understanding of the relationship of politics, state building, economic policy, labor unions, and consumer culture."--Daniel Horowitz, author of The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979

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