Tug of war : surveillance capitalism, military contracting, and the rise of the security state /
Lifting the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Carleton library series ;
242. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : satellites and surveillance capitalism
- "Our knowledge is in the holes" : software consulting and the sweat-equity formula, 1968-1977
- "Innovation in a cold climate" : remote sensing and the government contracting paradigm, 1971-1980
- "Two things went wrong at once" : mythical man-months, financial crises, and the near-death experience, 1975-1981
- "Unscrambling the mess" : financial restructuring, management discipline, and the military contracting formula, 1981-1987
- "The systems vision was too hard" : investor strategies, product development, and the demise of the manufacturing vision, 1982-1988
- "One amorphous mass" : systems integration, strategic planning, and the search for liquidity, 1988-1993
- "This company will be sold" : MDA's public offering, orbital's acquisition, and the dot-com bust, 1993-2001
- "Shades of grey" : 11 September 2001, the homeland security bubble, and Canada's sovereignty imbroglio, 2001-2008
- "A lucky escape" : the great recession, property information divestment, and the acquisition of a critical mass in satellite manufacturing, 2009-2012.