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Author Doukas, Dimitra, 1948- author.

Title Worked over : the corporate sabotage of an American community / Dimitra Doukas.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. I. Encounters -- 1. Introduction: The Other American Culture -- 2. The Valley -- 3. Local Knowledge -- 4. Local History -- pt. II. The Gospel of Work -- 5. The Remingtons of Ilion -- 6. The Remington Success -- 7. The Remington Failure -- pt. III. The Corporate Regime -- 8. Cultural Revolution -- 9. The Gospel of Wealth -- 10. Learning to Expect Hard Times -- 11. Wealth against Commonwealth -- App. 1. Theoretical and Methodological Orientations -- App. 2. Local Historical Sources and Abbreviations.
Summary "Worked Over is about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center [comprising the Mohawk River Valley towns of Herkimer, Ilion, Frankfort, and Mohawk] along New York State's old Erie Canal ... [T]he Remington company, maker of arms and typewriters among other things, was for many years the backbone of a thriving regional society. Corporate takeover of the varied Remington enterprises in 1886 ushered in a century of social distress and decreasing political autonomy. Since the 1970s, the area has suffered mightily from deindustrialization."--Back cover.
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Subject E. Remington & Sons -- History.
E. Remington & Sons.
History.
Big business -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
Big business -- Social aspects.
New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
Big business.
Social values -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
Social values.
Local government -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
Local government.
Distributive justice -- New York (State) -- Mohawk River Valley.
Distributive justice.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
ISBN 9781501711206 (electronic book)
1501711202 (electronic book)
0801440920
9780801440922
0801488613
9780801488610