| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
History e-book project
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| Contents |
Setting the scene -- The Southern Californian technopolis in context -- Patterns of industrialization and regional development -- A geographical and historical overview of the Southern Californian technopolis -- The structure and organization of high-technology industry in Southern California: A brief profile -- Southern California's pathway to high-technology industrial development, 1920-1960 -- Analyses of the core high-technology industrial complex -- The aircraft and parts industry -- The missile and space industry: The Southern Californian nexus in national context -- The electronics industry -- Local labor markets: Two contrasting cases -- The local labor market dynamics of a cohort of engineers and scientists -- Electronics assembly workers in Southern California -- Industrial organization, innovation, and location -- Subcontracting relations and locational agglomeration in the printed circuits industry -- Innovation, new firm foundation, and location in Southern California's medical device industry -- Finale -- Questions of policy and strategic choice: Collective action and regional development in the new global economy |
| Analysis |
Regional economics Role of Technology |
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California |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
High technology industries -- California, Southern
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Regional planning -- California, Southern
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Industrial location -- California, Southern
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Industries -- California, Southern -- Location
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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High technology industries
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Industrial location
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Regional planning
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Southern California
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0520081897 |
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9780520081895 |
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0585333807 |
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9780585333809 |
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