Confronting Decline: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization in Twentieth-Century New England

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Contents List of Illustrations viii Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Deindustrialization in New England 10 2. Retrenchment 26 3. Federal Assistance 67 4. Economic Development 102 5. Small Business Financing in Mid-Twentieth-Century New England 139 6. Small Business Finance and Electronics Spinoff Companies along Route 128 160 7. Responses to Deindustrialization in New England during the Cold War Years 187 8. Conclusions 221 Appendix 1. Rates of Job Creation in Massachusetts and the United States 241 Appendix 2. Cotton Textile Mill Wages 243 Appendix 3. A Contemporary Account of Spinoff Banking at the First National Bank of Boston 245 notes 247 bibliography 299 Index 319 ...