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Losing Out on Industrial Policy: The Chicago Case

dc.contributor.authorClavel, Pierre
dc.contributor.authorO'Neill-Kohl, Sara
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-10T01:37:27Z
dc.date.available2010-01-10T01:37:27Z
dc.date.issued2010-01-09
dc.descriptionworking paperen_US
dc.description.abstractWhile other nations were finding ways to intervene productively in their economic machinery in the post-war period, the United States moved from the pragmatic approach of the New Deal period, to avoidance of real economic policy intervention. With the crisis resulting from the losses in the financial sectors in 2008, this ideological umbrella was shorn away. What remained was the difficult task of reconstructing not just the willingness to intervene in various industrial sectors, but the capacity. In this paper, we first examine the wave of manufacturing plant shutdowns in Chicago in the 1980s. We then present two parallel stories about how social movements generated new institutions in the immediate response to plant shutdowns, and in city efforts to counter job loss with what turned out to be a successful rear guard action in the mid-1990s. Finally, we attempt a synthesis, to see what guidance there is in this story for present day attempts to maintain the nation’s manufacturing base.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/14278
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectmanufacturingen_US
dc.subjectdeindustrializationen_US
dc.subjectlaboren_US
dc.subjectindustrial policyen_US
dc.subjectChicagoen_US
dc.subjecteconomic developmenten_US
dc.titleLosing Out on Industrial Policy: The Chicago Caseen_US
dc.typearticleen_US

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