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The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism

byJennifer Delton

The first complete history of US industry’s most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers―NAM―helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. Drawing on economic evidence, institutional analysis, and historical examples, the narrative gives The Industrialists a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, how the national association of manufacturers shaped american capitalism becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within business & economics and history.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780691203348