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Author Koistinen, David

Title Confronting decline : the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England / David Koistinen ; foreword by Timothy J. Minchin and Richard Greenwald
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations
Series Working in the Americas
Working in the Americas.
Contents Deindustrialization in New England -- Retrenchment -- Federal assistance -- Economic development -- Small business financing in mid-Twentieth-century New England -- Small business finance and electronics spinoff companies along Route 128 -- Responses to deindustrialization in New England during the cold war years -- Conclusions
Summary Focuses on Massachusetts textile industries to understand the process of deindustrialization and three common responses to it: cutbacks in regulation, federal intervention, and economic development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Textile industry -- New England -- History
Textile industry -- Massachusetts -- History
Deindustrialization -- New England -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- General.
Deindustrialization
Economic history
Textile industry
Deindustrialisierung
Textilindustrie
Politische Ökonomie
SUBJECT New England -- Economic conditions
Subject Massachusetts
New England
Neuengland
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813048598
0813048591
9780813059754
0813059755