The Military and the market /

Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms, and both spurred and snuffed out economic development. It has created new markets--for consumer products...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mittelstadt, Jennifer (Editor ), Wilson, Mark R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]
Colección:American business, politics, and society.
Temas:
HISTORY / United States / General.
Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures.
Military readiness > Economic aspects.
United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures.
United States > Defenses > Economic aspects.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Military and the Market
  • 1. The Politics of US Military Privatizations, 1945-2000
  • 2. The World's Biggest Landlord: How the Cold War Military Built Its Arsenal of Houses
  • 3. Updating the Military Industrial Complex: The Evolution of the National Security Contracting Complex from the Cold War to the Forever War
  • 4. "Make Up a Box to Send Me": Consumer Culture and Camp Life in the American Civil War
  • 5. A Girl in Every Port? The US Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century
  • 6. Building the Bases of Empire: The US Army Corps of Engineers and Military Construction During the Early Cold War
  • 7. Militarized Circuits: Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the Rise of Global High Tech
  • 8. "Don't Discuss Jobs Outside This Room": Reconsidering Military Keynesianism in the 1970s
  • 9. Mediating the Economic Impacts of Service: Race and Veterans' Welfare after the War in Vietnam
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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