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New Western Economies
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Malone,
Michael S. The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon
Valley. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1985.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Kapstein,
Edith B, ed. Downsizing Defense. Washington, D.C. :
Congressional Quarterly, 1993. |
Essays
on the decline of the defense industry.
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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.
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Ballinger,
Jeff and Claes Olsson, ed. Behind the Swoosh : The Struggle
of Indonesians Making Nike Shoes. Uppsala, Sweden :
Global Publications Foundation, 1997.
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Macdonald,
Cameron Lynne and Carmen Sirianni, ed. Working in the Service
Society. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996 |
A
collection of essays.
Video
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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
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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
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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.
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