Capital moves : RCA's seventy-year quest for cheap labor /

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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 fascina...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cowie, Jefferson (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Temas:
RCA Corporation > Employees > History.
RCA Corporation
Electronic industry workers > United States > History.
Business relocation.
Industries électroniques > Personnel > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Business relocation
Electronic industry workers
Employees
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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