History 1BB3: America and the World: The Twentieth Century

Dr. Stephen M. Streeter

McMaster University, Winter 2002

 

Deindustrialization

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I. Postwar Economic Prosperity

military Keynesianism
military-industrial complex
Military-Industrial Complex Speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
sunbelt
stagflation

II. Deindustrialization

deindustrialization
decline of the U.S. steel industry

II. U.S. Economic Decline?

Philadelphia Inquirer, special report, America: What Went Wrong? (1991)
National Center for Policy Analysis, "Deindustrialization Myths" (1998)
Institute for Policy Studies, Top 200: The Rise of Corporate Global Power (2000)

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