Jefferson Cowie
Biographic Data
| ID | 306737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jefferson Cowie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jefferson |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowie |
| SIGNATURE | COWIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4653-1283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Effectiveness of legally mandated non-custodial drug and alcohol treatment orders for improved health, well-being, global functioning and quality of life: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Understanding the health and well-being impacts and implementation barriers and facilitators of legally-mandated non-custodial drug and alcohol treatment for justice-involved adults: A qualitative evi…
The WRITER’S STUDIO with Pulitzer Prize Winners Beverly Gage and Jefferson Cowie
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A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism
In the late 1990s, I had lunch with a vice president of one of the Big Three auto companies. Drawing together two major problems of the decade, health care and deindustrialization, he explained that he could locate a factory almost anywhere in the world and not worry about paying health-care costs—except for one country, the United States. By 1989, Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein show, health-care insecurity caused four-fifths of all strikes…
The Freedom to Oppress
The linguist George Lakoff argues that “freedom” is “the most important idea” because “it is at the center of all other important ideas.” What then, is to be done, if this metaconcept of the modern age, the intellectual foundation of the liberal order, the centerpiece of the Western intellectual universe, is predicated on an assumption of whiteness? It is a devastating intellectual and political problem, one tossed directly at the feet of any rea…
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration o…
Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Red History, Blue Mood: Labor History and Solidarity in an Age of Fragmentation
Beginning with labor historians’ efforts to create a synthesis of the field in the 1980s, this essay explores the problem of working-class political fragmentation and the intellectual problems that posed for the generation of “new” labor historians. Looking to culture, class, community, and control as their themes, historians overlooked deeper problems in American class formation as well as the monumental complexity of discussing the history of c…
Regenerative medicine: Stroke survivor and carer views and motivations towards a proposed stem cell clinical trial using placebo neurosurgery
BACKGROUND: Few studies explore stroke survivor views and motivations towards stem cell therapy (SCT). This qualitative study explores the views and motivations of both stroke survivors and their partners/carers towards a proposed 2-arm Phase III Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) comparing intracerebral insertion of stem cells with placebo neurosurgery in stroke survivors with disability. OBJECTIVE: To explore views and motivations towards a prop…
Evaluation of a Digital Consultation and Self-Care Advice Tool in Primary Care: A Multi-Methods Study
Digital services are often regarded as a solution to the growing demands on primary care services. Provision of a tool offering advice to support self-management as well as the ability to digitally consult with a General Practitioner (GP) has the potential to alleviate some of the pressure on primary care. This paper reports on a Phase II, 6-month evaluation of eConsult, a web-based triage and consultation system that was piloted across 11 GP pra…
Taking Exception
Jefferson Cowie’s new book The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (2016) follows his award-winning contributions Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (2000) and Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010).The Great Exception’s argument should be broadly familiar to labor historians, since a trial balloon coauthored with Nick Salvatore appeared as “The Long Exception” in …
The New Deal and the origins of someone else's time
Fear Itself is not really about the New Deal. It takes a while to realize that fact. This tremendous study is about something more profound: the United States navigating the existential crisis of W
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Book Review| May 01 2014 From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement. Garcia, Matt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012xvi + 350 pp., $34.95 (cloth) Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2014) 11 (2): 117–119. https://doi.org/10.1215…
We Can't Go Home Again: Why the New Deal Won't Be Renewed
Developing Sassa: A Soil Analysis Support System for Archaeologists
There is constant pressure on field archaeologists to be familiar with the core concepts of a diverse range of specialist disciplines. Soils and sediments are an integral part of archaeological sites, and soil and sedimentary analyses applied to archaeological questions are now recognised as an important branch of geoarchaeology. However, the teaching of soils in archaeology degrees is variable and many archaeologists complain they lack the confi…
History, Complexity, and Politics: Further Thoughts
We would like to thank our commentators for their vigorous responses to our essay. Those comments were varied and, at times, at odds with each other but contained a remarkable agreement around our core premise: that the New Deal order was based on an exceptional and unstable set of political circumstances. Beyond that basic consensus, however, a number of important points of contention deserve discussion
Introduction: The Conservative Turn in Postwar United States Working-Class History
The topic of working-class conservatism in the postwar United States might seem a particularly narrow and nationally-specific theme for a journal that stakes its reputation on the broader terrain of comparative and transnational history. Yet, in so many ways, the United States—despite its recently diminished role both economically and militarily around the world—continues to be the center of the globe's economic and military power structure. To r…
The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History
“The Long Exception” examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration—a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression—than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politi…
Announcing a New Review Essay Format at ILWCH
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Dead Man's Town: "Born in the U.S.A.," Social History, and Working-Class Identity
This essay analyzes Bruce Springsteen's 1984 hit song "Born in the U.S.A." as a history and commentary on working-class identity. The article discusses the song's narrative elements and its oppositional chorus as they each relate to the social, economic, political, and cultural history of post-Vietnam America. Beginning with an overview of white, male working-class political identity since the 1930s, the essay then turns to the era covered by the…
Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies
Research Article| September 01 2005 Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 93–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-3-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jefferson Cowie; Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventi…
From Hard Hats to the Nascar Dads
From Hard Hats to the Nascar Dads
A One-Sided Class War: Rethinking Doug Fraser's 1978 Resignation from the Labor-Management Group
In July of 1978, Douglas Fraser, President of the United Auto Workers, resigned from John Dunlop's Labor-Management Group in a flurry of publicity. The committee had been set up under the Nixon administration to seek out cooperative solutions to labor-management problems and to pass advice along to the White House. Although the group was supposed to reflect the postwar consensus in labor-management relations, Fraser's public resignation and the p…
Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, 1969-1973
(2002). Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, 1969-1973. Labor History: Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 257-283
The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History
“The Long Exception” examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration—a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression—than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politi…
Dead Man's Town: "Born in the U.S.A.," Social History, and Working-Class Identity
This essay analyzes Bruce Springsteen's 1984 hit song "Born in the U.S.A." as a history and commentary on working-class identity. The article discusses the song's narrative elements and its oppositional chorus as they each relate to the social, economic, political, and cultural history of post-Vietnam America. Beginning with an overview of white, male working-class political identity since the 1930s, the essay then turns to the era covered by the…
Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, 1969-1973
(2002). Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, 1969-1973. Labor History: Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 257-283
Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies
Research Article| September 01 2005 Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 93–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-3-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jefferson Cowie; Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventi…
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
La Ciudad (The City)
Journal Article La Ciudad (The City). Dir. by David Riker. Zeitgeist Films, 1999. 88 mins. (Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013) Get access Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1169–1170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675463 Published: 01 December 2000
We Can't Go Home Again: Why the New Deal Won't Be Renewed
A One-Sided Class War: Rethinking Doug Fraser's 1978 Resignation from the Labor-Management Group
In July of 1978, Douglas Fraser, President of the United Auto Workers, resigned from John Dunlop's Labor-Management Group in a flurry of publicity. The committee had been set up under the Nixon administration to seek out cooperative solutions to labor-management problems and to pass advice along to the White House. Although the group was supposed to reflect the postwar consensus in labor-management relations, Fraser's public resignation and the p…
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Journal Article Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. By Jefferson Cowie. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xii, 273 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3525-0.) Get access Federico Romero Federico Romero University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568069 Published: 01…
Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
La Ciudad (The City)
Journal Article La Ciudad (The City). Dir. by David Riker. Zeitgeist Films, 1999. 88 mins. (Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013) Get access Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 3, December 2000, Pages 1169–1170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675463 Published: 01 December 2000
Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism
Journal Article Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism. By Dana Frank. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999. xii, 302 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-8070-4710-4.) Get access Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 193–194, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567933 Published: 01 June 2000
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Journal Article Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. By Jefferson Cowie. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. xii, 273 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3525-0.) Get access Federico Romero Federico Romero University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568069 Published: 01…
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, 1969-1973
(2002). Nixon's Class Struggle: Romancing the New Right Worker, 1969-1973. Labor History: Vol. 43, No. 3, pp. 257-283
A One-Sided Class War: Rethinking Doug Fraser's 1978 Resignation from the Labor-Management Group
In July of 1978, Douglas Fraser, President of the United Auto Workers, resigned from John Dunlop's Labor-Management Group in a flurry of publicity. The committee had been set up under the Nixon administration to seek out cooperative solutions to labor-management problems and to pass advice along to the White House. Although the group was supposed to reflect the postwar consensus in labor-management relations, Fraser's public resignation and the p…
From Hard Hats to the Nascar Dads
From Hard Hats to the Nascar Dads
Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies
Research Article| September 01 2005 Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventies Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2005) 2 (3): 93–102. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2-3-93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jefferson Cowie; Portrait of the Working Class in a Convex Mirror: Toward a History of the Seventi…
Dead Man's Town: "Born in the U.S.A.," Social History, and Working-Class Identity
This essay analyzes Bruce Springsteen's 1984 hit song "Born in the U.S.A." as a history and commentary on working-class identity. The article discusses the song's narrative elements and its oppositional chorus as they each relate to the social, economic, political, and cultural history of post-Vietnam America. Beginning with an overview of white, male working-class political identity since the 1930s, the essay then turns to the era covered by the…
Announcing a New Review Essay Format at ILWCH
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Developing Sassa: A Soil Analysis Support System for Archaeologists
There is constant pressure on field archaeologists to be familiar with the core concepts of a diverse range of specialist disciplines. Soils and sediments are an integral part of archaeological sites, and soil and sedimentary analyses applied to archaeological questions are now recognised as an important branch of geoarchaeology. However, the teaching of soils in archaeology degrees is variable and many archaeologists complain they lack the confi…
History, Complexity, and Politics: Further Thoughts
We would like to thank our commentators for their vigorous responses to our essay. Those comments were varied and, at times, at odds with each other but contained a remarkable agreement around our core premise: that the New Deal order was based on an exceptional and unstable set of political circumstances. Beyond that basic consensus, however, a number of important points of contention deserve discussion
Introduction: The Conservative Turn in Postwar United States Working-Class History
The topic of working-class conservatism in the postwar United States might seem a particularly narrow and nationally-specific theme for a journal that stakes its reputation on the broader terrain of comparative and transnational history. Yet, in so many ways, the United States—despite its recently diminished role both economically and militarily around the world—continues to be the center of the globe's economic and military power structure. To r…
The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History
“The Long Exception” examines the period from Franklin Roosevelt to the end of the twentieth century and argues that the New Deal was more of an historical aberration—a byproduct of the massive crisis of the Great Depression—than the linear triumph of the welfare state. The depth of the Depression undoubtedly forced the realignment of American politics and class relations for decades, but, it is argued, there is more continuity in American politi…
We Can't Go Home Again: Why the New Deal Won't Be Renewed
From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement
Book Review| May 01 2014 From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement From the Jaws of Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement. Garcia, Matt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012xvi + 350 pp., $34.95 (cloth) Jefferson Cowie Jefferson Cowie Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2014) 11 (2): 117–119. https://doi.org/10.1215…
The New Deal and the origins of someone else's time
Fear Itself is not really about the New Deal. It takes a while to realize that fact. This tremendous study is about something more profound: the United States navigating the existential crisis of W
Taking Exception
Jefferson Cowie’s new book The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (2016) follows his award-winning contributions Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (2000) and Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (2010).The Great Exception’s argument should be broadly familiar to labor historians, since a trial balloon coauthored with Nick Salvatore appeared as “The Long Exception” in …
Regenerative medicine: Stroke survivor and carer views and motivations towards a proposed stem cell clinical trial using placebo neurosurgery
BACKGROUND: Few studies explore stroke survivor views and motivations towards stem cell therapy (SCT). This qualitative study explores the views and motivations of both stroke survivors and their partners/carers towards a proposed 2-arm Phase III Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) comparing intracerebral insertion of stem cells with placebo neurosurgery in stroke survivors with disability. OBJECTIVE: To explore views and motivations towards a prop…
Evaluation of a Digital Consultation and Self-Care Advice Tool in Primary Care: A Multi-Methods Study
Digital services are often regarded as a solution to the growing demands on primary care services. Provision of a tool offering advice to support self-management as well as the ability to digitally consult with a General Practitioner (GP) has the potential to alleviate some of the pressure on primary care. This paper reports on a Phase II, 6-month evaluation of eConsult, a web-based triage and consultation system that was piloted across 11 GP pra…
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