Margaret O’mara
Biographic Data
| ID | 4515221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret O’mara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | O’mara |
| SIGNATURE | O’MARA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Silicon Politics, from Puritan Soil to California Dreaming
ON Puritan Soil the Computers Grow,” proclaimed a headline in the New York Times in 1964, the midpoint of a four-decade period when greater Boston was the most important hub of high technology in America. Harvard and MIT were research powerhouses without rival, their leaders shaping national science policy, their laboratories spinning startup companies at a rapid clip. Corporate campuses gleamed along “America's Technology Highway” of Route 128, …
Can Firms Act Morally
The firm is a critical actor in the formation of a new moral political economy, but firm structure, culture, and profits can be an obstacle to change. The case of the American technology industry demonstrates the limits of relying on firms to change from within. The widespread practice of awarding stock ties white-collar compensation to corporate performance and curtails employee activism. The high-tech venture capital model measures success usin…
Michael Katz, Urban Optimist
“It is hard to capture the sense in which life in the past, especially in cities, differed from living today,” Michael B. Katz wrote in the conclusion of his first book-length work of urban history, The People of Hamilton, Canada West (Katz 1975: 311). “For the recognizable components of past urban life lull one into imagining a continuity greater than that which exists. In fundamental ways the patterns and texture of urban existence have changed…
The Uses of the Foreign Student
The rise of the global university is often associated with the concomitant wave of late twentieth-century neoliberalism and privatization and correlated with universities embracing “corporate” models of governance. However, it is a phenomenon with roots in the earliest years of the Cold War that emerged out of a set of institutions and policies with diplomatic rather than explicitly economic aims. Notable among these were the programs aimed at br…
Making Sense of American Liberalism
The past decade has been a rich one for American political history, largely because of the blossoming of a historiography of modern American conservatism that has blended institutional, biographical, and sociocultural approaches to create a powerful explanatory narrative for the nation's rightward swing since the 1960s. Yet the sustained attention paid to the Right may have obscured the fact that the Left was not only alive and kicking but also i…
Cold War politics and scientific communities
Many cities, regions and states have sought to replicate the economic success achieved by the high-tech industrial cluster of 'Silicon Valley' in northern California. While Silicon Valley's success is commonly attributed to particular entrepreneurs, firms and institutions, historically-specific political and economic frameworks underpinned its development. Policies and programmes of the US government during the early decades of the Cold War creat…
Making Sense of American Liberalism
The past decade has been a rich one for American political history, largely because of the blossoming of a historiography of modern American conservatism that has blended institutional, biographical, and sociocultural approaches to create a powerful explanatory narrative for the nation's rightward swing since the 1960s. Yet the sustained attention paid to the Right may have obscured the fact that the Left was not only alive and kicking but also i…
The Uses of the Foreign Student
The rise of the global university is often associated with the concomitant wave of late twentieth-century neoliberalism and privatization and correlated with universities embracing “corporate” models of governance. However, it is a phenomenon with roots in the earliest years of the Cold War that emerged out of a set of institutions and policies with diplomatic rather than explicitly economic aims. Notable among these were the programs aimed at br…
Cold War politics and scientific communities
Many cities, regions and states have sought to replicate the economic success achieved by the high-tech industrial cluster of 'Silicon Valley' in northern California. While Silicon Valley's success is commonly attributed to particular entrepreneurs, firms and institutions, historically-specific political and economic frameworks underpinned its development. Policies and programmes of the US government during the early decades of the Cold War creat…
Cold War politics and scientific communities
Many cities, regions and states have sought to replicate the economic success achieved by the high-tech industrial cluster of 'Silicon Valley' in northern California. While Silicon Valley's success is commonly attributed to particular entrepreneurs, firms and institutions, historically-specific political and economic frameworks underpinned its development. Policies and programmes of the US government during the early decades of the Cold War creat…
The Uses of the Foreign Student
The rise of the global university is often associated with the concomitant wave of late twentieth-century neoliberalism and privatization and correlated with universities embracing “corporate” models of governance. However, it is a phenomenon with roots in the earliest years of the Cold War that emerged out of a set of institutions and policies with diplomatic rather than explicitly economic aims. Notable among these were the programs aimed at br…
Making Sense of American Liberalism
The past decade has been a rich one for American political history, largely because of the blossoming of a historiography of modern American conservatism that has blended institutional, biographical, and sociocultural approaches to create a powerful explanatory narrative for the nation's rightward swing since the 1960s. Yet the sustained attention paid to the Right may have obscured the fact that the Left was not only alive and kicking but also i…
Michael Katz, Urban Optimist
“It is hard to capture the sense in which life in the past, especially in cities, differed from living today,” Michael B. Katz wrote in the conclusion of his first book-length work of urban history, The People of Hamilton, Canada West (Katz 1975: 311). “For the recognizable components of past urban life lull one into imagining a continuity greater than that which exists. In fundamental ways the patterns and texture of urban existence have changed…
Can Firms Act Morally
The firm is a critical actor in the formation of a new moral political economy, but firm structure, culture, and profits can be an obstacle to change. The case of the American technology industry demonstrates the limits of relying on firms to change from within. The widespread practice of awarding stock ties white-collar compensation to corporate performance and curtails employee activism. The high-tech venture capital model measures success usin…
Silicon Politics, from Puritan Soil to California Dreaming
ON Puritan Soil the Computers Grow,” proclaimed a headline in the New York Times in 1964, the midpoint of a four-decade period when greater Boston was the most important hub of high technology in America. Harvard and MIT were research powerhouses without rival, their leaders shaping national science policy, their laboratories spinning startup companies at a rapid clip. Corporate campuses gleamed along “America's Technology Highway” of Route 128, …
Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works)