Memphis Commercial Appeal, September 18, 2011, Sunday

Memphis Commercial Appeal

September 18, 2011, Sunday

Memphis Commercial Appeal (full article)

RCA came to Memphis promising thousands of jobs, left 5 years later

“The incentives offered RCA in Memphis were chump change compared with what goes on today,” author Jefferson Cowie wrote in an e-mail message.

RCA’s move to Memphis was part of its decades-long search for a low-cost, compliant workforce, Cowie, a Cornell University labor historian, wrote in his 1999 book “Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor.”