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766520 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018766520New Labor Forum research-article2018 New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 5 –7 From the Editorial Team Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796018766520 DOI: 10.1177/1095796018766520 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf This is the fiftieth anniversary of an extraordi- also become an incubator of youthful discon- nary moment in American and global politics. tent where an entitled generation rebelled Our two lead articles (and cover illustration) against its stifling conformity and could no lon- invoke 1968 and assess the lasting conse- ger abide the violence of American hypocrisy quences of a year-long series of mass strikes, in the jungles of Vietnam, in the cotton fields of battlefield denouements, urban insurrections, the South, on the mean streets of the urban assassinations, cultural revolutions, presiden- ghetto. As Phil Neel demonstrates, the land- tial abdications, and violent repression that scape of suburbia has been entirely uprooted; it encircled the world from Washington, D.C. to looks like alien territory where dreams go to Prague, from Mexico City to Paris. Above all, it die. White, affluent enclaves still exist but oth- was a year of great expectations that the pre- erwise the demographics have changed. People vailing post-war order
New Labor Forum – SAGE
Published: May 1, 2018
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