Buy American : the untold story of economic nationalism / Dana Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Dana.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumers--United States.

Consumers.

United States.

Consumers' preferences--United States.

Consumers' preferences.

Buy national policy--United States.

Buy national policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 316 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [1999]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Are imports really to blame for disappearing American jobs? Labor historian Dana Frank demonstrated how "Buy American" campaigns are not a new idea, tracing the history and politics of economic nationalism from the American Revolution to the present. The entertaining story is full of surprises, including misguided heroes, chilling racism, and more than a few charlatans. Frank contributes a much-needed new approach to the whole debate between free trade and protectionism, a strategy that would serve the needs of workers instead of the interests of corporations and economic elites.

Contents:

Whose economic nation? Buy American campaigns and the American Revolution

The class politics of the tariff: or, secrets of the tariff revealed

Circling the wagons: buy American campaigns during the Great Depression

No thanks, Mr. Hearst: alternatives to buy Americanism in the 1930s

Making the world safe for American products: imperial free trade in the American century

So we'll be able to make it in the U.S.A.: the ILCWU, the union label, and the import question

Demons in the parking lot: autoworkers and the "Japanese threat"

This label means bigger profits: corporate-sponsored buy American campaigns

Nationalism from the bottom up: popular buy American campaigns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-298) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Frank, Dana. Buy American.

ISBN:

9780807047125

0807047120

Publisher Number:

99985889405

Access Restriction:

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