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Author Cowie, Jefferson R.

Title Capital moves : RCA's seventy-year quest for cheap labor / Jefferson Cowie ; with a new epilogue by the author.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : New Press ; distributed by W. W. Norton, 2001, c1999.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  338.7621381 C839c 2001    ---  Available
Edition [New Press pbk. ed.]
Description vii, 279 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Note "Originally published in hardcover by Cornell University Press, c1999"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents In defiance of their master's voice : Camden, 1929-1950 -- "Anything but an industrial town": Bloomington, 1940-1968 -- Bordering on the sun belt : Memphis, 1965-1971 -- The new industrial frontier : Ciudad Juarez, 1964-1978 -- Moving toward a shutdown : Bloomington, 1969-1998 -- The double struggle : Ciudad Juarez, 1978-1998 -- The distances in between -- Epilogue to the New Press paperback edition.
Subject RCA Corporation -- History.
RCA Corporation -- Employees -- History.
Electronic industry workers -- United States -- History.
Business relocation.
ISBN 1565846591 (pbk.)

 
    
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