Taking care. (Cover Story).
American Prospect, The, April, 2002 by Hochschild, Arlie Russell
IN HER NEW BOOK POWER POLITICS, the novelist Arundhati Roy observes the way that the government of India with one hand causes distress and with the other directs people's anger about it elsewhere. Do harm; then scapegoat. She calls it a "pincer action."
Does it sound familiar? In the United States, we have been subjected lately to an ever more deregulated capitalism; to reduced job security, lower benefits, and longer work hours; to a shift of the tax burden from the rich to the poor and a shift of government spending from butter to guns. In his current budget ...
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