This unique volume presents a theory of capitalist collective action and a case study of the pre-World War II American coal industry to which the theory is applied. The author examines the irony of capitalist firms that do not want to compete with each other, but often cannot avoid doing so. He then explains under what conditions businesses would be able to organize their competition and identifies the economic and political factors that facilitate or inhibit this organization. The case study not only illustrates the theory, but demonstrates how the competitive relations of capitalist firms are critically important determinants of their political behavior.
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"...an extraordinary piece of work that is sure to become a centerpiece in the ongoing discussion of the politics of industrial states. The distinguishing feature of the book is Bowman's hard-nosed and articulate theoretical approach to a major empirical problem." Professor Russell Hardin, The University of Chicago
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"Regardless of one's view of rational choice models,...this volume is praiseworthy.... This book is highly recommended to sociologists with an interest in corporations, labor, and the state." American Journal of Sociology
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This unique volume presents a theory of capitalist collective action and a case study of the pre-World War II American coal industry to which the theory is applied. The author examines the irony of capitalist firms that do not want to compete with each other, but often cannot avoid doing so.
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In this chapter I argue that capitalist relations of production, besides producing conflicts of interest between workers and capitalists, also produce conflicts among capitalists; and that these latter conflicts, which take the form of economic competition, generate a distinct set of collective action problems for competing firms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
district sales agencies, midwestern operators, dominant defection strategy, unionized operators, capitalist collective action problems, tidewater market, internal organizational mechanisms, competitive wage cutting, coal competition, suboptimal payoffs, defecting firms, suboptimal profits, bituminous coal industry, interdistrict competition, nonunion operators, southern operators, defection outcome, northern operators, high coal prices, bituminous coal operators, wage game, trade association survey, coal legislation, coal code, eastern operators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Virginia, New York, Prisoner's Dilemma, United States, Black Diamond, World War, Central Competitive Field, Geological Survey, United Mine Workers, Mineral Resources, National Coal Association, New Deal, Supreme Court, Economic Survey, Industrial Market Structure, Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Government Printing Office, Great Expectations, Mineral Industry, Appalachian Coals, Bureau of Mines, Sherman Act, Bituminous Coal Code, Cambridge University Press New!
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In this chapter I argue that capitalist relations of production, besides producing conflicts of interest between workers and capitalists, also produce conflicts among capitalists; and that these latter conflicts, which take the form of economic competition, generate a distinct set of collective action problems for competing firms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
district sales agencies, midwestern operators, dominant defection strategy, unionized operators, capitalist collective action problems, tidewater market, internal organizational mechanisms, competitive wage cutting, coal competition, suboptimal payoffs, defecting firms, suboptimal profits, bituminous coal industry, interdistrict competition, nonunion operators, southern operators, defection outcome, northern operators, high coal prices, bituminous coal operators, wage game, trade association survey, coal legislation, coal code, eastern operators Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Virginia, New York, Prisoner's Dilemma, United States, Black Diamond, World War, Central Competitive Field, Geological Survey, United Mine Workers, Mineral Resources, National Coal Association, New Deal, Supreme Court, Economic Survey, Industrial Market Structure, Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Government Printing Office, Great Expectations, Mineral Industry, Appalachian Coals, Bureau of Mines, Sherman Act, Bituminous Coal Code, Cambridge University Press New!
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- Making Sense of Marx (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Jon Elster on 8 pages
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- Poverty of Philosophy (Great Books in Philosophy) by Karl Marx on 4 pages
- The Origins of the National Recovery Administration by Robert Himmelberg on page 67, page 190, and Back Matter
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