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Suggestions for Further Study
New Western Economies

 

Malone, Michael S. The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1985.
Edstrom, Jennifer and Marlin Eller. Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft From the Inside: How the World's Richest Corporation Wields its Power. New York : H. Holt, 1998.

Brown, Beverly A. In Timber Country: Working People's Stories of Environmental Conflict and Urban Flight. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

A study of the decline of the timber industry in southern Oregon and its consequences.

More Books of Interest

Riebsame, William, ed. Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a Changing Region. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Covers many of the economic, political, cultural, social, and demographic shifts in the late twentieth century West.

Baden, John A. and Donald Snow, ed. The Next West: Public Lands, Community, and Economy in the American West. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1997.

A collection of essays.

Kapstein, Edith B, ed. Downsizing Defense. Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1993.

Essays on the decline of the defense industry.

Ruiz, Vicki L. and Susan Tiano, ed. Women on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Responses to Change. Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1987.

Essays, several of which address the question of maquiladoras.

Ballinger, Jeff and Claes Olsson, ed. Behind the Swoosh : The Struggle of Indonesians Making Nike Shoes. Uppsala, Sweden : Global Publications Foundation, 1997.
Macdonald, Cameron Lynne and Carmen Sirianni, ed. Working in the Service Society. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996

A collection of essays.

Video

Ashes of the Cold War. Produced and written by June Cross. 56m. 1993. Videorecording.

Chronicles the recent history of two American military contractors. General Dynamics, once the country's largest defense manufacturer, and Hughes Aircraft Company, the largest supplier of military electronics, as each tries to carve out a future in a radically changed defense environment.

Web Sites

 
WorkTravel.Com

Home page of an employment agency that has taken advantage of the rise of the resort-supported service industry.http://www.worktravel.com/

Put Yourself There: 
      Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts

United States General Accounting Office. Military Bases: Case Studies on Selected Bases Closed in 1988 and 1991: Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice, Committee on Governmental Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: The Office, 1995.

In Government Documents.