Projecting Capitalism
A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry
Marc Linder(Author)
Greenwood Press
Published on 21. July 1994
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-313-29293-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the 1840's to the 20th century, large Western European and U.S. construction firms shaped the international economy by furnishing crucial physical infrastructure. The author attempts to destroy the myth that construction is a localized industry of many small firms in perfect competition, sheltered from world markets. U.S. and European firms that promote world markets were forced to transcend local and national markets and incorporate the Third World into both world markets and capital circuits. This book is valuable reading for international, political, and developmental economists; labor, economic, social, colonial, labor, engineering and material culture historians; organization theorists; and economic geographers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-313-29293-4 (9780313292934)
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MARC LINDER is Professor at the University of Iowa where he teaches Labor Law. He has also taught at universities in Germany, Denmark and Mexico. Mr. Linder's previous publications include Farewell to the Self-Employed (Greenwood, 1992), The Employment Relationship in Anglo-American Law (Greenwood, 1989), The Supreme Labor Court in Nazi Germany (1987), and Anti-Samuelson (1977).