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Space security.
Defense contracts.
Electronic surveillance.
Capitalism.
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Wills, Jocelyn, 1960-
Security, International.
Space security.
Defense contracts.
Electronic surveillance.
Capitalism.
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Tug of war : surveillance capitalism, military contracting, and the rise of the security state / Jocelyn Wills.
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Wills, Jocelyn, 1960-
McGill-Queen's University Press, c2017.
Call #:
355.033 W741t
Subjects
Security, International.
Space security.
Defense
contracts
.
Electronic surveillance.
Capitalism.
Series
Carleton library ; 242.
ISBN:
9780773550476 (hc)
077355047X (hc)
Description:
xv, 500 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Satellites and surveillance capitalism -- "A permanent state of "Cold war'": preparing the environment, 1940-1968 -- "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": financial crises, mythical man-months, 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 -- "Unseen in the background": a view from the security state.
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