LEADER 03104nam 2200469 450 001 9910467208003321 005 20191125083657.0 010 $a1-5017-2356-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501723568 035 $a(CKB)4100000008622367 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965013 035 $a(DE-B1597)527392 035 $a(OCoLC)1105893301 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501723568 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5965013 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008622367 100 $a20191125d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCapital moves $eRCA's seventy-year quest for cheap labor /$fJefferson Cowie 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d[1999] 210 4$dİ1999 215 $a1 online resource (x, 273 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-8014-3525-0 311 $a0-8014-8522-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. In Defiance of Their Master's Voice: Camden, 1929-1950 -- $t2. "Anything but an Industrial Town": Bloomington, 1940-1968 -- $t3. Bordering on the Sun Belt: Memphis, 1965-1971 -- $t4. The New Industrial Frontier: Ciudad Juarez, 1964-1978 -- $t5. Moving toward a Shutdown: Bloomington, 1969-1998 -- $t6. The Double Struggle: Ciudad Juarez, 1978-1998 -- $t7. The Distances In Between -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aFind a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs-and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route-one taken time and again by major American manufacturers-is vividly chronicled in this fascinating account of RCA's half century-long search for desirable sources of labor. Capital Moves introduces us to the people most affected by the migration of industry and, most importantly, recounts how they came to fight against the idea that they were simply "cheap labor."Jefferson Cowie tells the dramatic story of four communities, each irrevocably transformed by the opening of an industrial plant. From the manufacturer's first factory in Camden, New Jersey, where it employed large numbers of southern and eastern European immigrants, RCA moved to rural Indiana in 1940, hiring Americans of Scotch-Irish descent for its plant in Bloomington. Then, in the volatile 1960s, the company relocated to Memphis where African Americans made up the core of the labor pool. Finally, the company landed in northern Mexico in the 1970s-a region rapidly becoming one of the most industrialized on the continent. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations. 676 $a338.76213810973 700 $aCowie$b Jefferson$01050023 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467208003321 996 $aCapital moves$92479491 997 $aUNINA