The deindustrialization of America : plant closings, community abandonment, and the dismantling of basic industry / Barry Bluestone, Bennett Harrison.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c1982.Description: x, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0465015905
- 338.6/042 19
- HD 5708.55 .U6 B58 1982
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introduction - Chapter 1. Capital vs community -- Part II. The extent and consequences of deindustrialization - Chapter 2. Closed plants ; lost jobs - Chapter 3. The impact of private divestment on workers and their communities - Chapter 4. Boomtown and bust-town: How the market produces reindustrialization. -- Part III. Why and how the American economy is undergoing deindustrialization. Chapter 5. Corporate strategy and government policy during the Pax Americana: 1946-71. - Chapter 6. Managerial capitalism and the economic crisis: 1971-? -- Part IV. The great reindustrialization debate. - Chapter 7. What's wrong with present policy - Chapter 8. Reindustrialization with a human face.
This book describes the process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially heavy industry or manufacturing industry.
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