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Confronting decline : the political economy of deindustrialization in Twentieth-century New England

Title
Confronting decline : the political economy of deindustrialization in Twentieth-century New England / David Koistinen ; Foreword by Timothy J. Minchin and Richard Greenwald.
Author
Koistinen, David.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2013], ©2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Minchin, Timothy J.
  • Greenwald, Richard A.
Description
xii, 331 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
Focuses on Massachusetts textile industries to understand the process of deindustrialization and three common responses to it: cutbacks in regulation, federal intervention, and economic development.
Series Statement
Working in the Americas
Uniform Title
Working in the Americas.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Deindustrialization in New England -- Retrenchment -- Federal assistance -- Economic development -- Small business financing in mid-Twentieth-century New England -- Small business finance and electronics spinoff companies along Route 128 -- Responses to deindustrialization in New England during the cold war years -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 9780813049076
  • 0813049075 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2013020087
  • 99956660879
OCLC
  • ocn828055842
  • 828055842
  • SCSB-5725152
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries