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100 1 _aCummings, Alex Sayf,
_eauthor.
_993662
245 1 0 _aBrain magnet :
_bResearch Triangle Park and the idea of the idea economy
_cAlex Sayf Cummings.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c2020
300 _axii, 248 pages :
_billsutrations, maps ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aColumbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Beginning in the 1950s, a group of academics, businesspeople, and politicians set out on an ambitious project to remake North Carolina's low-wage economy. They pitched the universities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill as the kernel of a tech hub, Research Triangle Park, which would lure a new class of highly educated workers. In the process, they created a blueprint for what would become known as the knowledge economy: a future built on intellectual labor and the production of intellectual property. Alex Sayf Cummings reveals the significance of Research Triangle Park to the emergence of the high-tech economy in a postindustrial United States. She analyzes the use of ideas of culture and creativity to fuel economic development, how workers experienced life in the Triangle, and the role of the federal government in bringing the modern technology industry into being. As Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill were transformed by high-tech development, the old South gave way to a distinctly new one, which welded the intellectual power of universities to a vision of the suburban good life. Cummings pinpoints how the story of the Research Triangle sheds new light on the origins of today's urban landscape, in which innovation, as exemplified by the tech industry, is lauded as the engine of economic growth against a backdrop of gentrification and inequality. Placing the knowledge economy in a broader cultural and intellectual context, Brain Magnet offers vital insight into how tech-driven development occurs and the people and places left in its wake"--
_cProvided by publisher.
563 _aHB
610 2 0 _aResearch Triangle Park (N.C.)
_xHistory.
_993663
650 0 _aKnowledge economy
_zNorth Carolina
_zResearch Triangle
_xHistory.
_993664
650 0 _aTechnology
_xResearch
_zNorth Carolina
_zResearch Triangle
_xHistory.
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aCummings, Alex Sayf,
_tBrain magnet
_dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2020.
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_w(DLC) 2019047172
830 0 _aColumbia studies in the history of U.S. capitalism.
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