The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism's Time-Space Fix

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 74-90

  O'Neill, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

American manufacturing industry, evolution of monopoly capitalism; Economic geography's study of the modern corporation; Largest US corporations, 1960 to 2010; Spatial and spatiotemporal fixes, Harvey and his structured coherences; The old industrial corporations and dominance, ending by 2010

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886837601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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