The Military and the Market / / ed. by Jennifer Mittelstadt, Mark R. Wilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Adler, Jessica L.,; Barker, Timothy,; Chung, Patrick,; Heefner, Gretchen,; Mittelstadt, Jennifer,; Murphy, A. Junn,; Vuic, Kara Dixon,; Weicksel, Sarah Jones,; Wilson, Mark R.,; Wirls, Daniel,
• HerausgeberIn: Mittelstadt, Jennifer,; Wilson, Mark R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: American Business, Politics, and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and both spurred and snuffed out economic development. It has created new markets—for consumer products, for sex work, and for new technologies. It has operated as a regulator of industries and firms and an arbitrator of labor practices. And in recent decades it has gone so far as to refashion itself from the inside, so as to become more similar to a for-profit corporation.The Military and the Market covers two centuries of history of the U.S. military’s vast and varied economic operations, including its often tense relationships with capitalist markets. Collecting new scholarship at the intersection of the fields of military history, business history, policy history, and the history of capitalism, the nine chapters feature important new research on subjects ranging from Civil War soldier-entrepreneurs, to the business of the construction of housing and overseas bases for the Cold War, to the U.S. military’s troubled relationships with markets for sex. The volume enriches scholars’ understandings of the depth and complexity of military-market relations in U.S. history and offers today’s military policymakers novel insights about the origins of current arrangements and how they might be reimagined.Contributors: Jessica L. Adler, Timothy Barker, Patrick Chung, Gretchen Heefner, Jennifer Mittelstadt, A. Junn Murphy, Kara Dixon Vuic, Sarah Jones Weicksel, Mark R. Wilson, Daniel Wirls.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The Military and the Market -- 1. The Politics of US Military Privatizations, 1945–2000 -- 2. The World’s Biggest Landlord: How the Cold War Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses -- 3. Updating the Military Industrial Complex: The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War to the Forever War -- 4. “Make Up a Box to Send Me”: Consumer Culture and Camp Life in the American Civil War -- 5. A Girl in Every Port? The US Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century -- 6. Building the Bases of Empire: The US Army Corps of Engineers and Military Construction During the Early Cold War -- 7. Militarized Circuits: Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the Rise of Global High Tech -- 8. “Don’t Discuss Jobs Outside This Room”: Reconsidering Military Keynesianism in the 1970s -- 9. Mediating the Economic Impacts of Service: Race and Veterans’ Welfare after the War in Vietnam -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments