The fall of an American Rome deindustrialization of the American dream
This is the story of the de-industrialization of America, written by a Business professor with a background in steel company management who grew up in the city of Pittsburgh and loved its manufacturing environment. The book is based on the facts and aims to avoid any partisan political viewpoint - w...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Publishing
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40518772*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The prelude : the Mont Pelerin society
- America's different path
- America's first de-industrialization
- A new world order
- Lordstown, the Rouge, and Conneaut
- And the wolf finally came : the 1970s
- Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley falls
- For whom the bell tolls : the year 1982
- Rubber falls
- The Mon valley collapses
- The heartland feels the pain
- Barbarians at the gate : Detroit
- De-industrialization of an American company : Jones & Laughlin (Aka LTV)
- Mont Pelerin's Camelot in the 1990s
- Who killed Saturn?
- Tale of the last two cities
- A post industrial age?
- Maybe we need to revisit a whig party platform?
- Timeline
- Bibliography
- Index.
