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" Tug of war : "
Jocelyn Wills.
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BL
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881098
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Wills, Jocelyn,1960-
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Tug of war : : surveillance capitalism, military contracting, and the rise of the security state /\ Jocelyn Wills.
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Montreal ;Kingston ;London ;Chicago :: McGill-Queen's University Press,, [2017]
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, ©2017
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Carleton library series ;; 242
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1 online resource (xv, 500 pages)
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077355047X
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: 0773550488
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: 0773550496
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: 9780773550476
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: 9780773550483
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: 9780773550490
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction : satellites and surveillance capitalism -- "Our knowledge is in the holes" : software consulting and the sweat-equity formula, 1968-1977 -- "Innovation in a cold climate" : remote sensing and the government contracting paradigm, 1971-1980 -- "Two things went wrong at once" : mythical man-months, financial crises, and the near-death experience, 1975-1981 -- "Unscrambling the mess" : financial restructuring, management discipline, and the military contracting formula, 1981-1987 -- "The systems vision was too hard" : investor strategies, product development, and the demise of the manufacturing vision, 1982-1988 -- "One amorphous mass" : systems integration, strategic planning, and the search for liquidity, 1988-1993 -- "This company will be sold" : MDA's public offering, orbital's acquisition, and the dot-com bust, 1993-2001 -- "Shades of grey" : 11 September 2001, the homeland security bubble, and Canada's sovereignty imbroglio, 2001-2008 -- "A lucky escape" : the great recession, property information divestment, and the acquisition of a critical mass in satellite manufacturing, 2009-2012.
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Lifting the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games.
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Capitalism.
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Defense contracts.
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Electronic surveillance.
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Security, International.
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Space security.
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Capitalisme.
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Contrats de la défense.
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Sécurité internationale.
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Sécurité spatiale.
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Surveillance électronique.
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Capitalism.
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contemporary history
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Defense contracts.
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Electronic surveillance.
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Elektronische Überwachung
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espionage
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Fallstudie
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Firma.
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HISTORY-- Military-- Other.
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Kapitalismus
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Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie
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Militärische Raumfahrt
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new technology
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satellite
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secret service
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Security, International.
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Sicherheitspolitik
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Space security.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Military Science.
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threat to national security
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Kanada
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| Dewey Classification
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355/.033
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JZ5588.W55 2017eb
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64.22ep-class
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cci1icclacc
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