First, why did RCA move? Second, as you survey RCA’s movement nationally and internationally, can you identify any patterns in the experiences of the workers and communities where RCA established production facilities?
1.Subject Area: This is actually a paper for Economic History of the U.S. So please combine both economic point of view and history.
2. Topic: Capital mobility and globalization have had a dramatic impact on twentieth century United States economic history and development. We often view capital mobility as a relatively recent phenomenon. Not so, says Jefferson Cowie. Cowie’s describes this change beginning in the United States and later extending Ciudad Juárez. In Cowie’s telling of the story reasons and effects of capital mobility were well established long before RCA decided to begin manufacturing its products in Mexico. In this essay, you should use Cowie’s analysis of RCA to address two sets of questions which are in the paper topic.
3. Citation Format: This paper is required to follow Chicago Manual of Style or MLA
guidelines for proper footnotes and bibliographic citations. There is only One
source for the paper, but proper citation of evidence and arguments is a good practice to get into.
4. Source for the paper: Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for
Cheap Labor
5. Please be original.