Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present by Nichols, Shaun S.
Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present by Nichols, Shaun S.

Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present

American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization...
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Author: Shaun S. Nichols
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Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present by Nichols, Shaun S.

Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present

$560.83
Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present by Nichols, Shaun S.

Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present

$560.83
Author: Shaun S. Nichols
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
American economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industrial decay. Offering a reappraisal of this pattern, Manufacturing Catastrophe traces the successive rise and fall of the whaling, textile, garment, electronics, and high-tech industries in Massachusetts over the past two hundred years. It shows how business, labor, and political leaders repeatedly mobilized the lure of crisis--cheap labor, low taxes, and generous manufacturing subsidies--to pull and push both capital and workers across the continents, repeatedly remaking the pioneering industrial cities of Fall River and New Bedford. Workers--ranging from migrating Azorean seamen to British weavers to Quebecois farmers--and capitalists--including mobile manufacturers, globetrotting whalers, and multinational conglomerators--participated in the creation of regional growth and, with it, American industrial ascendance. Exploring the paradoxical and recurring coexistence of high unemployment and labor shortages in these cities, this book explains why recovery and growth have not necessarily translated into long-term prosperity. In doing so, it illuminates how economic catastrophe was, ironically, a critical ingredient in the making of America's industrial hegemony.

Author: Shaun S. Nichols
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 01/12/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780197665329

About the Author
Shaun S. Nichols is an Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. He is a native of Fall River, Massachusetts.
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