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Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations - Softcover

Spillman, Lyn

 
9780226769578: Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226769577 ISBN 13: 9780226769578
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at the heart of capitalism.

In Solidarity in Strategy, Lyn Spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of American economic activity. From the Intelligent Transportation Society to the American Gem Trade Association, Spillman explains how business associations are more collegial than cutthroat, and how they make capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity that transcends those interests.

Deeply grounded in both economic and cultural sociology, Solidarity in Strategy provides rich, lively, and often surprising insights into the world of business, and leads us to question some of our most fundamental assumptions about economic life and how cultural context influences economic.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lyn Spillman is associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she is also the author ofNation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia and the editor ofCultural Sociology.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226769577
ISBN 13 
9780226769578
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
532
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