Contents

• Coping with Economic Change
  Quincy, Massachusetts, like many other American communities, is trying to find its place in the 21st century economy
• Winners and Losers: Creative Destruction
  Should we put the emphasis on creative or destruction?
• Times Change
  Differences between 1950 and 2000
• "My Father Works at the Shipyard..."
• In the Neighborhood
  Town lines have become class lines
• Are We Having Fun Yet?
  Is the new world an improvement over the way things used to be?
• Wheels and Deals
  Changes in Quincy's commercial district
• Government Can Make a Difference
  Sometimes the government gets things right, sometimes not. Either way, its impact on economic life is undeniable
• Discuss Among Yourselves
  Topics for discussion

Resources: Coping with Economic Change

Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

• “The Father of Creative Destruction”
  Frank Rose, Wired, March 2002
  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.03/schumpeter.html
• “Biography of Joseph Alois Schumpeter”
  The Library of Economics and Liberty
  http://www.econlib.org/Library/Enc/bios/Schumpeter.html
• Robert Solow on Joseph Schumpeter
  Economist’s View, May 17, 2007
  http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2007/05/robert_solow_on.html

Industrial Quincy

• “Quincy Shipyard Launches First Nuclear Powered Cruiser”
  http://www.massmoments.org/index.cfm?mid=205
• “A History of Shipbuilding at Fore River”
  Anthony F. Sarcone and Lawrence S. Rines
  http://www.thomascranelibrary.org/shipbuildingheritage/history/history.htm
• “Quincy’s Granite Legacy”
  http://www.thomascranelibrary.org/legacy/grant.htm
• Quincy Historical Society
  http://www.quincyhistory.org

Highways, Air Conditioning, Shopping Malls, and Public Spaces

• “Highway History”
  Federal Highway Administration web site
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.htm
  The interstate highway system has been called the greatest public works program in U.S. history.
• “Route 128 Opens Boston’s High Tech Age”
  Mass Moments web site
  http://www.massmoments.com/index.cfm?mid=246
  The construction of Route 128, the first multilane beltway around Boston, had a major impact on downtown Quincy.
• “The 20 Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century”
  The National Academy of Engineering web site
  http://www.greatachievements.org
• “How Air Conditioning Changed America”
  The Old House Web
  http://www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/725.shtml
• “Keeping Things Cool: Air Conditioning in the Modern World”
  Susanna Robbins, (originally appeared in Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, October 18, 2003), Organization of American Historians web site
  http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/sunbelt/robbins.html
• “The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture”
  Raymond Arsenault, (originally appeared in The Journal of Southern History, November 1984), JSTOR– Journal Storage web site
  http://www.jstor.org
  Use the Search function, type in "air conditioning."
• “Shopping Mall History”
  American Studies Department, Eastern Connecticut State University
  http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/MallsHistory.htm
• “Great Public Spaces”
  Project for Public Spaces web site
  http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces

Moving to the Suburbs

• “Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb”
  Peter Bacon Hales, Art History Department, University of Illinois at Chicago
  http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown

Quincy: The Cradle of American Roadside Culture

• Three retrospectives on Howard Johnson’s
  http://www.slamtrak.com/hojo2003/index.htm – Check out the illustrations!
  http://www.massmoments.com/index.cfm?mid=273
  http://www.roadsidefans.com/hojo.html
• Two brief histories of the Dunkin’ Donuts chain, which got its start in Quincy.
  https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/company/History.aspx
  http://www.massmoments.com/index.cfm?mid=273

Government’s Impact

• “Government’s 50 Greatest Endeavors”
  The Brookings Institution web site
  http://www.brook.edu/gs/cps/research/projects/50ge/endeavors/immigration.htm
• “TVA: Electricity for All”
  New Deal Network web site
  http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm
• “Effects of the Immigration Act of 1965 on Selected Population Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States”
  Charles B. Keeley, Western Michigan University, (originally appeared in Demography, May 1971),
  JSTOR – Journal Storage web site
  http://www.jstor.org/view/00703370/di973790/97p01223/0
• “1965 Immigration Law Changed Face of America”
  National Public Radio web site
  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5391395
• “Remembering the GI Bill”
  Public Broadcasting System web site
  http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec00/gibill_7-4.html