Exposing Federal Sponsorship of Job Loss - The Whitehall Plant Closing Campaign and 'Runaway Plant' Reform

List of contents

1. The Antagonists, the Issue, and the Political and Economic Antecendents 2. Obsolescence of the Picket Line: Taking the Battle to the Courts and Capitol Hill 3. Primetime, 60 Minutes and Michael Moore: The Media Campaign 4. Was It Worth the Fight?

Summary

Originally published in 1995, this book explores a number of subjects of significance for labor and economic policy, especially the role of U. S. tax policy in the relocation of jobs from the contintental USA to Puerto Rico.

Product details

• Authors: ABEDIAN, Julia C. Abedian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781138322448
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32244-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Studies on Industrial Productivity; Studies on Industrial Productivity; Studies on Industrial Productivity: Selected Works
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, International Economics, Political Economy, Economics of industrial organisation, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade, Economics of industrial organization