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

Koistinen, David.

Confronting decline : the political economy of deindustrialization in twentieth-century New England / David Koistinen ; Foreword by Timothy J. Minchin and Richard Greenwald. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations - Working in the Americas .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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Textile industry--History.--New England
Textile industry--History.--Massachusetts
Deindustrialization--History.--New England


Electronic Books.

HD9857 / .C664 2014