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766353 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796018766353New Labor ForumFreeman research-article2018 After the Deluge: 1968 in Retrospect New Labor Forum 2018, Vol. 27(2) 21 –27 Great Expectations: Looking Back Copyright © 2018, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: at a Year of Global Revolution sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796018766353 DOI: 10.1177/1095796018766353 journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Joshua B. Freeman Keywords politics, neoliberalism, democracy, conservatism, capitalism 1968—in much of the world, at least for older explosiveness with 1789, 1917, and 1989, it did generations, the year needs no elaboration. not lead to the same sort of radical changes in Alone, it unleashes a flood of sounds and economic and political structures that came out images, cascading memories of exhilaration of those years of revolt. If anything, 1968 was and horror, transporting the mind back to a more like 1848, when a wave of revolution was moment when everything seemed possible, and largely turned back. Almost everywhere, ruling all was up for grabs. 1968. 1789, 1848, 1917, authorities were able to repulse the 1968 rebels, 1968, 1989—those rare, mesmerizing moments if need be by military force. Within a decade, a when a revolutionary spirit seemed to fly across worldwide economic crisis ended up bolstering borders, when the inconceivable became
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Published: May 1, 2018
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