Capital Moves : : RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor /

Capital Moves : : RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor / / Jefferson Cowie.

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Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs—and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route—one taken time and again by major American manufacturers—is vividly chronicled in this fascinatin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Cowie, Jefferson,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1999
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 map, 6 charts, 15 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. In Defiance of Their Master's Voice: Camden, 1929-1950
  • 2. "Anything but an Industrial Town": Bloomington, 1940-1968
  • 3. Bordering on the Sun Belt: Memphis, 1965-1971
  • 4. The New Industrial Frontier: Ciudad Juarez, 1964-1978
  • 5. Moving toward a Shutdown: Bloomington, 1969-1998
  • 6. The Double Struggle: Ciudad Juarez, 1978-1998
  • 7. The Distances In Between
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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