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particularly those relating to poverty.
Phillips, Kevin.The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and
the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath. New
York: Harper & Row, 1990. Argues that public pol-
icies of the 1980’s drastically shifted income from
the poor to the rich.
Reich, Robert.The Work of Nations: Preparing Our-
selves for Twenty-First Centur y Capitalism. New York:
Knopf, 1991. Explores the increasing complexity
of business operations as individual functions and
services become globalized. Sees the world econ-
omy evolving into three kinds of work: routine pro-
duction services, in-person services, and symbolic-
analytic services.

Wattenberg, Ben.The Good News Is the Bad News Is

Wrong. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. Lively

journalistic refutation of negative representations

of American society and economy. Perceptive ob-

servations on poverty, homelessness, and unem-

ployment.

Paul B. Trescott

See also Agriculture in the United States; AT&T

breakup; Demographics of the United States; In-

come and wages in the United States; Inflation in the

United States; Poverty; Recessions; Savings and Loan

(S&L) crisis; Unemployment in the United States;

Unions.

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