The new economy and the modern South
By: Michael Dennis.
Series: Working in the Americas
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780813032917
Subjects: Business enterprises -- Virginia; Industrial promotion -- Virginia; Southern States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; Virginia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The South in the era of market dominance; title: Reengineered and rewired: downsized business and the insecure worker; title: After the deluge: office workers and the era of uncertainty in Virginia; title: Wealth against commonwealth: southern labor in the era of market dominance; title: Trading in southern futures: NAFTA and Virginia; title: Virginia is for business: selling the commonwealth in the competition era; title: Dreams of revolution: Virginia's conservatives in the 1990s; title: Democratic vistas in the Old Dominion: organizing for change among working Virginians; title: Only yesterday: hope and disillusionment at the end of a century.