1 Alan Greenspan, ‘Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan’, before the Joint Economic Committee, US Congress (14 June 1999).
2.
2 Al Gore, ‘Remarks of Vice-President Al Gore, Center for National Policy’, Washington, DC (9 July 1997).
3.
3 Ibid.
4.
and Jeffrey Harrod, Power, Production, and the Unprotected Worker (New York, Columbia University Press, 1987).
5.
5 Tate Hausman, ‘Economy benefits the rich, busts the rest’, Alternet website (24 September 1999).
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6 See Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook, The Winner-Take-All Society: how more and more Americans compete for fewer and bigger prizes, encouraging economic waste, income inequality, and an impoverished culture life (New York, The Free Press, 1995).
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7 ‘Happy birthday: Dow Jones index turns 100’, http://www.cnn.com (26 May 1999).
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8 Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has, on several occasions, voiced concern that there is too much optimism in stock prices. This of course is a veiled acknowledgement of the nature of the recent expansion of wealth.
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9 Robert Kilborn and Lance Carden, ‘USA’, Christian Science Monitor (29 September 1999).
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10 Alan Greenspan, ‘Testimony of Chairman Alan Greenspan, The Federal Reserve’s semiannual report on monetary policy’, before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, US Senate (23 February 1999).
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11 White House website, http://www.whitehouse.gov
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12 Alan Greenspan, ‘Monetary policy report’, submitted to US Congress (22 July 1999).
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13 Laura Foote Reiff, ‘Jobs: the market alone won’t do’, Washington Post (16 September 1999).
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14 Clarence Lusane, Race in the Global Era: African Americans at the millennium (Boston, MA, South End Press, 1997), p. 10.
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15 Corporate Power and the American Dream (New York, Labor Institute, n.d.), p. 89.
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16 Stephen Hipple, ‘Contingent work: results from second survey’, Monthly Labor Review (November 1998), p. 28.
17.
17 Ibid, pp. 26-7.
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18 Robin D. G. Kelley, ‘The new working class and organized labor’, New Labor Forum (Fall 1997), p. 8.
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19 ‘An annual average pay by state and industry’, US Bureau of Labor Statistics (23 June 1999).
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20 Monthly Labor Review (27 January 1999).
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21 William Julius Wilson, When Work Disappears: the world of the urban poor (New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), p. 249.
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22 Ibid, pp. 29-30.
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23 Ibid, p. 30.
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24 US Census Bureau (24 September 1998).
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25 ‘Poverty 1997’, US Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov
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26 ‘The measurement of poverty’, http://www.childstats.gov
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27 Janice Windau, ‘Occupational fatalities among the immigrant population’, Compensation and Working Conditions (Spring 1997), p. 41.
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28 ‘Occupational fatalities among the immigrant population’, http://stats.bls.gov
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29 ‘The secret truth about race and welfare’, GRIPP News and Notes (Vol. 1, Spring 1999), p. 2.
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30 Timothy Egan, ‘The war on drugs retreats, still turning prisoners’, New York Times (28 February 1999).
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31 ‘Criminal offenders statistics’, Bureau of Justice statistics, http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov
