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The Military and the Market (Hardcover)
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The Military and the Market (Hardcover)
Series: American Business, Politics, and Society
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Throughout its history, the U.S. military has worked in close
connection to market-based institutions and structures. It has run
systems of free and unfree labor, taken over private sector firms,
and both spurred and snuffed out economic development. It has
created new markets-for consumer products, for sex work, and for
new technologies. It has operated as a regulator of industries and
firms and an arbitrator of labor practices. And in recent decades
it has gone so far as to refashion itself from the inside, so as to
become more similar to a for-profit corporation. The Military and
the Market covers two centuries of history of the U.S. military's
vast and varied economic operations, including its often tense
relationships with capitalist markets. Collecting new scholarship
at the intersection of the fields of military history, business
history, policy history, and the history of capitalism, the nine
chapters feature important new research on subjects ranging from
Civil War soldier-entrepreneurs, to the business of the
construction of housing and overseas bases for the Cold War, to the
U.S. military's troubled relationships with markets for sex. The
volume enriches scholars' understandings of the depth and
complexity of military-market relations in U.S. history and offers
today's military policymakers novel insights about the origins of
current arrangements and how they might be reimagined.
Contributors: Jessica L. Adler, Timothy Barker, Patrick Chung,
Gretchen Heefner, Jennifer Mittelstadt, A. Junn Murphy, Kara Dixon
Vuic, Sarah Jones Weicksel, Mark R. Wilson, Daniel Wirls.
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