Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

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Lyn Spillman (University of Notre Dame)

Solidarity in Strategy

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Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

Lyn Spillman (University of Notre Dame)

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English

University of Chicago Press
30 August 2012

Sociology: work & labour; Economic systems & structures; Business strategy; Trade unions

Popular conceptions hold that capitalism is driven almost

entirely by the pursuit of profit and self-interest. Challenging that

assumption, this major new study of American business associations shows

how market and non-market relations are actually profoundly entwined at

the heart of capitalism.

In Solidarity in Strategy, Lyn Spillman draws on rich

documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four

thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of

commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of American

economic activity. From the Intelligent Transportation Society to the

American Gem Trade Association, Spillman explains how business

associations are more collegial than cutthroat, and how they make

capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about

collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity

that transcends those interests.

Deeply grounded in both economic and cultural sociology, Solidarity in Strategy

provides rich, lively, and often surprising insights into the world of

business, and leads us to question some of our most fundamental

assumptions about economic life and how cultural context influences

economic.

By: Lyn Spillman (University of Notre Dame)
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 17mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 794g
ISBN: 9780226769578
ISBN 10: 0226769577
Pages: 536
Publication Date: 30 August 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lyn Spillman is associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, she is also the author of Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia and the editor of Cultural Sociology.

Reviews for Solidarity in Strategy: Making Business Meaningful in American Trade Associations

Lyn Spillman does for trade associations what Alexis de Tocqueville did for civic ones, carefully investigating a wide range of associations in the United States - with surprising results. In describing how these associations band members together and give rise to group identities, Solidarity in Strategy breaks new ground in the discussion of the cultures of capitalism. (Frederick Wherry, University of Michigan)