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Fraying Fabric How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America.

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"The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermine...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Benton, James C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Illinois Press, 2022.
Series:Working Class in American History Ser.
Subjects:
Textile industry > United States > History > 20th century.
Clothing trade > United States > History > 20th century.
Deindustrialization > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Commercial policy > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • From Free Trade to Populism: How Did We Get Here? 1974-2016
  • Clashing Aims: The New Deal, Labor, and Tariff Reform, 1933-45
  • New Challenges: Labor's Limits, International Recovery, and Industrial Decline, 1945-60
  • New Domestic and International Frontiers: John F. Kennedy, Labor, and Trade, 1961-63
  • Winds of Change: Trade Deals, Rising Imports, and Shifting Political Alliances, 1964-69
  • Fighting to Win: Organized Labor and the Battle to Shape Trade Policy, 1969-70
  • Labor Strikes Out: The Mills Bill, Burke-Hartke, and the Trade Act of 1974
  • Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here?

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