Ships for the Seven Seas (Studies in Industry and Society)

But large-scale naval construction in the 1920s eroded production flexibility, Heinrich argues, and since then, ill-conceived merchant marine policies and naval contracting procedures have brought about a structural crisis in American shipbuilding and the demise of the venerable Philadelphia shipyards.

• | Author: Thomas Heinrich
• | Publisher: JHUP
• | Publication Date: March 24, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 308 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 142143685X
• | ISBN-13: 9781421436852