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Title

Projecting capitalism : a history of the internationalization of the construction industry / Marc Linder.

Author

Linder, Marc.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

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Description

xv, 270 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions in economics and economic history, 0084-9235 ; no. 158

Uniform Title

Contributions in economics and economic history ; no. 158.

Subject

• Construction industry > History
• Engineering firms > History
• International business enterprises > History
• Railroads, Colonial > History
• Capitalism > History
• Technology transfer > History
• International economic relations > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-257) and index.

Contents

1. The Paradox of International Construction: A New World Market Within "The New International Division of Labor" -- 2. Taxonomy and Etiology of International Construction -- 3. The Rise of Large British Railway Construction Firms -- 4. The Internationalization of British Railway Constructors -- 5. The Metropolitan State and the World Market -- 6. Non-British Competition -- 7. The Imperialist Origins of the International Operations of U.S. Construction Firms -- 8. The Post-World War II Ascendancy of U.S. Multinational Construction Firms -- 9. The Emergence of a World Construction Market and the Relative Decline of U.S. Firms -- 10. The World Construction Market Constructs Its Own World Labor Market -- 11. The Internationalization of the Construction Industry: Empirical Indicators -- 12. Bringing the World Market Home: Depression-Induced Intra-First World Interpenetration -- 13. Multinational Construction Firms as Agents of Penetration of the Third World.

ISBN

0313292930 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93050546

OCLC

ocm29595377

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries