This book provides a new perspective on the origins of the three most important New Deal policies--the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act--while examining the strengths and weaknesses of historical institutionalism, Marxism, protest-disruption theory, and non-Marxian class-dominance theory.

G. William Domhoff is a Research Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Michael J. Webber is Professor of Sociology at the University of San Francisco.