Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-235) and index (pages [239]-246).
Contents:
Introduction: The military and the market / Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson -- The politics of US Military privatizations, 1945-2000 / Jennifer Mittelstadt and Mark R. Wilson -- The world's biggest landlord : how the cold war military built its arsenal of houses / A. Junn Murphy -- Updating the military industrial complex : the evolution of the national security contracting complex from the cold war to the forever war / Daniel Wirls -- "Make up a box to send me" : consumer culture and camp life in the American Civil War / Sarah Jones Weicksel -- A girl in every port? : The US Military and prostitution in the twentieth century / Kara Dixon Vuic -- Building the bases of empire : the US Army Corps of engineers and military construction during the Early Cold War / Gretchen Heefner -- Militarized circuits : Kang Ki Dong, the US Military, and the rise of global high tech / Patrick Chung -- "Don't discuss jobs outside this room" : reconsidering military Keynesianism in the 1970s / Timothy Barker -- Mediating the economic impacts of service : race and veterans' welfare after the war in Vietnam / Jessica L. Adler.
Summary:
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--Publisher's description.
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