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The State And The Unions - Labor Relations, Law And The Organized Labor Movement In America, 1880-1960

by Christopher L. Tomlins

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 This 1985 book offers a critical examination of the impact of the National Labor Relations Act on American unions. Dr Tomlins examines both the laws from the late nineteenth century and the history of the act's passage. He shows how public policy confined labour's role in the American economy and the problems faced by unions that stem from these laws.
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The Great Depression - Delayed Recovery And Economic Change In America, 1929â€“1939

by Michael A. (Princeton University, New Jersey) Bernstein

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 This 1988 book focuses on the real puzzle of 1930s America: why did the economy fail to recover from the downturn of 1929â€"33? The author presents a convincing case that there were important long-run tendencies within the economy that are crucial to understanding this failure.
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Crisis In The Making - The Political Economy Of New York State Since 1945

by Alan L. Magdovitz e Peter D. Mcclelland

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 This book examines in detail the fiscal and more general economic crisis of New York State and City. The authors show that the crisis was as much the fruit of political manoeuvering as it was the outcome of long-term economic trends and fiscal ineptitude.
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Europe, America, And The Wider World: Volume 1, Europe And The World Economy - Essays On The Economic History Of Western Capitalism

by William Nelson Parker

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 Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a particular, yet comprehensive, view of the economic history of Western Europe since the Renaissance. In the concluding essay, Professor Parker examines the break-up of the capitalist synthesis and speculates on its transmutation into other forms.
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Science And Corporate Strategy - Du Pont R And D, 1902â€“1980

by David A. Hounshell e John Kenly, Jr Smith

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 Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont R and D, 1902â€"1980 provides a comprehensive, critical study of research and development in a large US corporation. Du Pont was among a handful of US corporations that established formal research and development laboratories at the turn of the century to improve competitive positions in their respective industries.
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The Business Of Research - Rca And The Videodisc

by Margaret B. W. Graham

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 The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. This book, first published in 1986, presents an absorbing account of how RCA shaped a sophisticated consumer electronics technology in a research and development effort that spanned fifteen years.
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Europe, America, And The Wider World: Volume 2, America And The Wider World - Essays On The Economic History Of Western Capitalism

by William N. (Yale University, Connecticut) Parker

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 Focusing on the nineteenth-century experience of three US regions, the northeast, south and midwest, these essays trace the agricultural and industrial sources of wealth and growth that accounted for the country's development as a flourishing nation.
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Economic Development, The Family, And Income Distribution - Selected Essays

by Simon Kuznets

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 This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, dealing with 'modern economic growth' and the interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. An introduction by Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings.
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The Business Of Research - Rca And The Videodisc

by Margaret B. W. Graham

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 The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. This book, first published in 1986, presents an absorbing account of how RCA shaped a sophisticated consumer electronics technology in a research and development effort that spanned fifteen years.
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Energy Policy In America Since 1945 - A Study Of Business-Government Relations

by Richard H. K. Vietor

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 This 1985 book provides us with an innovative and insightful approach to the study of businessâ€"government relations in modern America. For anyone interested in seeing a more effective national industrial policy, this history should put the relationship of business and government in a critical new perspective.
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Thinking About Growth - And Other Essays On Economic Growth And Welfare

by Moses (Stanford University, California) Abramovitz

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 The essays in this book explore the forces behind modern economic growth, concentrating on the surge of growth since World War II. Essays include a discussion of how Japan and Europe follow a set of circumstances and policies to sustain rapid growth, and the contributions of education.
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Regulation And The Revolution In United States Farm Productivity

by Sally H. (University Of Texas, Austin) Clarke

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 Since the 1930s, US agriculture has undergone a revolution in productivity. Sally Clarke explains how government activity, by stabilizing prices, introducing new sources of credit, and prompting tool manufacturers to revise their business strategies, created a climate favorable to rapid gains in productivity.
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Economic Development, The Family, And Income Distribution - Selected Essays

by Simon Kuznets

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 This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, dealing with 'modern economic growth' and the interrelations between demographic change and income inequality. An introduction by Professor Richard Easterlin discusses the relationship of the essays to the balance of Kuznets's writings.
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The Making Of American Industrial Research - Science And Business At Ge And Bell, 1876â€“1926

by Leonard S. Reich

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 This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric and American Telephone and Telegraph. The author shows that important lessons can be drawn from the early efforts of these two corporations.
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Innovation As A Social Process - Elihu Thomson And The Rise Of General Electric

by W. Bernard (University Of Virginia) Carlson

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 Elihu Thomson was a late-nineteenth-century American inventor who helped create the first electric lighting and power systems. One of the most prolific inventors in American history, Thomson was granted nearly 700 patents in a career spanning the 1880s to 1930s.
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Manufacturing Knowledge - A History Of The Hawthorne Experiments

by Richard (Museum Of Victoria, Melbourne) Gillespie

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 Richard Gillespie raises fundamental questions about the nature of scientific knowledge, and about the assumptions and evidence that underpin debates about worker productivity.
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Drastic Measures - A History Of Wage And Price Controls In The United States

by Hugh Rockoff

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 This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black markets and the expansion of government, and the relationship between controls and monetary policy.

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