The End of Ideology Book

The Resumption of History in the New Century

Introduction: The Restless Vanity

PART 1: AMERICA: THE AMBIGUITIES OF THEORY

1. America as a Mass Society: A Critique

2. The Breakup of Family Capitalism: On Changes in Class in America

3. Is There a Ruling Class in America? The Power Elite Reconsidered

4. The Prospects of American Capitalism: On Keynes, Schumpeter and Gaibraith

5. The Refractions of the American Past: On the Question of National Character

6. Status Politics and New Anxieties: On the "Radical Right" and Ideologies of the Fifties

PART 2: AMERICA: THE COMPLEXITIES OF LIFE

7. Crime as an American Way of Life: A Queer Ladder of Social Mobility

8. The Myth of Crime Waves: The Actual Decline of Crime in the United States

9. The Racket-Ridden Longshoremen: The Web of Economics and Politics

10. The Capitalism of the Proletariat: A Theory of American Trade-Unionism

11. Work and its Discontents: The Cult of Efficiency in America

PART 3: THE EXHAUSTION OF UTOPIA

12. The Failure of American Socialism: The Tension of Ethics and Politics

13. The Mood of Three Generations:

A. The Once-Born, the Twice-Born, and the After-Born

B. The Loss of Innocence in the Thirties

C. Politics in the Forties

D. Dissent in the Fifties

14. Ten Theories in Search of Reality: The Prediction of Soviet Behavior

15. Two Roads from Marx: The Themes of Alienation and Exploitation and Workers' Control in Socialist Thought

The End of Ideology in the West: An Epilogue

Afterword, 1988: The End of Ideology Revisited

Acknowledgment

Notes

Index