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...RANDY BARBER used to have long hair. In patched overworn jeans he would trek form the green hills of Hanover to the SDS centers on the East Coast mustering support for the dying antiwar movement, organizing, demonstrating. He formed the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in an effort to remind Americans of their radical past, producing rushed superficial works like Voices of the American Revolution. He organized the Midnight Ride to Concord in April...
...Today, Barber sports a short haircut; his dress is conservative; his circuit, lectures. the Peoples Bicentennial Commission is now the Peoples Business Commission; more sophisticated economic arguments have replaced the shallow demonstration-oriented approach. And for the first time Barber and Rifkin offer more than just a passing look at events and issues. They retain the mass appeal outlook--their book went directly into paperback, their language is lively, and their ideas vividly expressed. But the end product is not a fleeting rehash of old ideas presented in a new way. Instead The North Will Rise Again offers carefully thought...
...Sales' Power Shift three years ago outlined the conflict developing between the North and the South over capital investment--the runaway shop, the declining Northeast industrial corridor, the advantages for corporation investment in the Sunbelt such as room to expand, right to work laws, and limited unionization. Rifkin and Barber, taking the inevitable scenario for their base, analyze the reasons behind declining union membership, the anti-northeast corporate strategy and the failures of the business unionism to address these issue, and introduce a new factor--social capital in pension funds...
...pension investment strategies that the bankers and brokers have used. The main strength of the book is its detailed documentation of economic trends, quoting labor, Congressional and industrial leaders and analysts to add color to what could have been a very bleak subject.Even if Rifkin and Barber's next book, on the economic significance of the evangelical movement in the U.S., denotes a return to radical faddism, The North Will Rise Again will stand...
...domestic front, Democratic opponents would by now have stripped the civil service reform bill of the Administration's key provisions were it not for the support of Republican Representatives Ed Derwinski and Tom Corcoran of Illinois and James Leach of Iowa. In the House Ways and Means Committee, Barber Conable of New York and other Republicans have defended the Administration's free-trade policies against the Democrats' more protectionist attitudes...