Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism

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Beacon Press, 2000年4月7日 - 336 頁
With the election of Donald Trump, economic nationalism has re-emerged as a patriotic rallying cry. But are imports and “foreigners” really to blame for the disappearance of good jobs in the United States? Tracing the history and politics of economic nationalism from the American Revolution to the present, historian Dana Frank investigates the long history of “Buy American” campaigns and their complexities. This entertaining story is full of surprises, including misguided heroes, chilling racism, and more than a few charlatans. Frank helps reframe the debate between free trade, on the one hand, and nationalism on the other, to suggest alternative strategies that would serve the needs of working Americans—instead of the interests of corporations and economic elites—and that don’t cast “foreigners” or immigrants as our “enemies.”
 

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Whose Economic Nation? Buy American Campaigns and the American Revolution
3
The Class Politics of the Tariff Or Secrets of the Tariff Revealed
33
Circling the Wagons Buy American Campaigns During the Great Depression
56
No Thanks Mr Hearst Alternatives to Buy Americanism in the 1930s
79
Making the World Safe for American Products Imperial Free Trade in the American Century
102
PART TWO
129
So Well Be Able to Make It in the USA The ILGWU the Union Label and the Import Question
131
Demons in the Parking Lot Autoworkers and the Japanese Threat
160
This Label Means Bigger Profits CorporateSponsored Buy American Campaigns
187
Nationalism from the Bottom Up Popular Buy American Movements
214
Up from Nationalism
244
NOTES
255
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
299
INDEX
303
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Dana Frank is the author of multiple books including Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America and, with Robin D.G. Kelley and Howard Zinn, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor’s Last Century, and has written widely about human rights and US policy in Honduras since the 2009 coup. She is professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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