PNRC. Rockwell International. 1975
Pacific Northwest Research Center. Rockwell International: Where Business
Gets Down to the Science of War. Eugene OR: PNRC, 1975. Written by Paul
Fitzgerald, John Markoff, Roger Walke, and John Woodmansee, with a foreword
by G. William Domhoff. 69 pages.
PNRC was a collective of researchers that thrived for a time in the
1970s when "power structure research" meant identifying and tracking the
influence of corporate and government elites. One of PNRC's contributions
was this booklet on Rockwell International's cozy relations with Washington
and Pentagon bigwigs. By looking at Rockwell and its B-1 bomber contract in
particular, this booklet presents an amazing case study of how the military-
industrial complex works. (Nothing has changed since 1975. In 1991 I was
employed by Grumman, which along with Rockwell and others was a contractor
for NASA's space station. This latest tax-dollar boondoggle caused me to
resign in disgust after only three months of very fat paychecks.)
By the late 1970s the tendency of "the personal as political" replaced
"power structure research" on the U.S. left, and progressive funding sources
were now controlled by self-interested feminists and multiculturalists. They
succeeded in forcing one foot into the power structure by legislating and
lobbying for preferential treatment. But this neither exposed nor challenged
the way the system works, and by now it's increasingly clear that they were
simply bought off. -- D.Brandt
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- ACHESON DEAN G (27)
- ALLEGHENY LUDLUM (44)
- ANDERSON ROBERT (ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL) (27, 29, 43-4, 47)
- ATWOOD JOHN LELAND (LEE) (28-9, 42, 47)
- BALLES JOHN JOSEPH (4)
- BISPLINGHOFF RAYMOND LEWIS (17)
- BOEING COMPANY (5, 10-1, 17)
- BOOTH WALLACE WRAY JR (31)
- BORCH FRED J (47-51)
- BUSINESS COUNCIL (FOUNDED 1933) (49)
- CALL ASA V (47)
- CLIFFORD CLARK MCADAMS (6)
- COLLINS RADIO (30, 32-3)
- CYPRUS MINES CORPORATION (46, 51)
- DENT FREDERICK B (35)
- EL PASO NATURAL GAS (35)
- FITZGERALD A ERNEST (53, 55)
- GATES THOMAS S JR (44-7)
- GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION (10)
- GENERAL ELECTRIC (5, 46, 48)
- HARTLEY FRED L (47)
- HEWLETT WILLIAM REDINGTON (46-7, 51)
- HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (4, 46)
- HOOVER INSTITUTION (50)
- HULL CORDELL (1871-1955) (26)
- INDUSTRY ADVISORY COUNCIL (50)
- JOHNSON T.P. (44)
- KENDALL DONALD MCINTOSH (35)
- KIGHT ALONZO B (35, 38, 40)
- LAIRD MELVIN R (6, 45)
- LITTLEFIELD EDMUND WATTIS (46-9, 51)
- MACDONALD BRUCE (ENGINEER) (20)
- MARTIN ABNER B (15)
- MCELROY NEIL H (44-9)
- MCINTYRE THOMAS J (D-NH) (19)
- MCLUCAS JOHN LUTHER (17)
- MELLON BANK (4, 23, 44)
- MELLON FAMILY (44, 47, 51-2)
- MELLON RICHARD B (23)
- MUDD HARVEY S (46-7, 51)
- NELSON DOUGLAS T (6, 15)
- NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION COMPANY (6, 10, 12, 28-30, 42-3)
- NOSSITER BERNARD D (54)
- PACKARD DAVID (45-51)
- PARKER JACK STEELE (50)
- PELLY THOMAS (11)
- PROXMIRE WILLIAM (D-WI) (56)
- ROCKWELL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (1-68)
- ROCKWELL WILLARD F JR (AL)
- ROCKWELL WILLARD F SR (22-3, 26, 31, 34, 45-6)
- SCHLESINGER JAMES RODNEY (7)
- STANS MAURICE H (47)
- STUBBING RICHARD A (53-5)
- TYRRELL MERTON (55-7)
- UNITED STATES USSR TRADE ECONOMIC COUNCIL (35)
- WEIDENBAUM MURRAY L (53)
- WEISS HERMAN LEONARD JR (50)
- WESTWOOD JEAN M (58)
- WILSON CHARLES ERWIN (GM & DEFENSE SEC) (45)
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