An edition of Capital moves (1999)

Capital moves

RCA's seventy-year quest for cheap labor

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An edition of Capital moves (1999)

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 fascinating account of RCA's half-century-long search for desirable sources of labor.

Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most important, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor." Jefferson Cowie follows RCA's winding path across North America as he tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant.

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Language
English
Pages
273

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Capital moves: RCA's seventy-year quest for cheap labor
1999, Cornell University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Ithaca, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
338.7/621381/0973
Library of Congress
HD9696.A3 U5334 1999, HD9696.A3U5334 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 273 p. :
Number of pages
273

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL386980M
ISBN 10
0801435250, 0801485223
LCCN
98049784
OCLC/WorldCat
40298442
Library Thing
1224652
Goodreads
1907378

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