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Disconnect : Why our politics is so out of touch and what it means for our future

25 Mar 2007

With the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, many pundits are predicting the end of the conservative revolution and the resurgence of the Democratic party. [...] The 1932 election brought the belated Democratic response to the industrial revolution, and the great depression which was seen then as the natural outgrowth of a political system dominated by one economic class, industrialists. [...] The rise of the industrial economy pitted the capitalist class against workers against agricultural interests; the creative economy, as we will see, drives real wedges between the creative workforce, the service economy, the working class, and the corporate leaders of the industrial economy. [...] The move from the farm to the factory is simply more evident than the move from the factory to the software firm or film production studio – and the politics of the latter will be less internally coherent and more intrinsically unsettled. [...] One of the most controversial findings of The Rise of the Creative Class was the correlation of gay- friendly cities with economic growth.
government politics democracy economy capitalism creative industries culture employment government policy immigration labour liberalism political system election political culture democrats democratic values economic inequality democrat creative class democratic party (united states) republican party republican post-materialist christian right american history

Authors

Florida, Richard L

Pages
10
Published in
Canada

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