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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Koistinen, David.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
Series:Working in the Americas
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Table of 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.