Confronting decline : the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England

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Confronting decline : the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England

David Koistinen ; foreword by Timothy J. Minchin and Richard Greenwald

(Working in the Americas)

University Press of Florida, c2013

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Bibliography: p. [299]-317

Includes index

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

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In recent decades, the decline of traditional manufacturing - deindustrialization - has been one of the most significant aspects of the restructuring of the American economy. David Koistinen examines the Massachusetts textile industry from the 1920s through the 1980s in order to better understand the process of industrial decline.

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