Find 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...

The immediate impact of deindustrialization the suffering inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities has been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important volume, the authors seek to move discussion of America's industrial decline beyond the immediate ramifications of plant shutdowns by placing it into a broader social, political, and economic context. Emphasizing a historical approach, the authors explore the multiple meanings of one of the major transformations of the twentieth century.The concept of deindustrialization entered the popular and scholarly...