From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles (SUNY series in the Anthropology of Work) - Softcover

Nash, June C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887069398 ISBN 13: 9780887069390

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1989

Synopsis

This is a book about the impact of high tech defense production on individuals, families, and communities. It analyzes the restructuring of an American industry around high tech defense production, and the effect of this restructuring on employment opportunities and on the redistribution of profits. The author is concerned with the construction of corporate hegemony which she defines in Gramscian terms as leadership by large corporations, establishing a pattern for industrial organization. Focusing on regional economic history and corporate policy, Dr. Nash identifies the interconnected issues that bear on the relationship between industrial transformation and social life, on the restructuring of the American economy, and the consequences of militarization and commercialization on the family and community.

About this title

About the Author

June C. Nash is Professor of Anthropology at the City College of New York. She is a co-editor of Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor, also published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887069398
• ISBN 13: 9780887069390
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368