From the intelligent transportation society to the american gem trade association the book explains how business associations are more collegial than cutthroat and how they make capitalist action meaningful not only by developing shared ideas about collective interests but also by articulating a disinterested solidarity that transcends those interests. In solidarity in strategy lyn spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial life to reveal a busy and often surprising arena of american economic activity from the intelligent transportation society to the american gem trade . In solidarity in strategy lyn spillman draws on rich documentary archives and a comprehensive data set of more than four thousand trade associations from diverse and obscure corners of commercial. Solidarity in strategy making business meaningful in american trade associations by lyn spillman chicago university of chicago press 2012 pp xiv 517 9000 cloth 3000 paper american journal of sociology vol 119 no 4 menu. Solidarity in strategy making business meaningful in american trade associations spillman lyn 9780226769561 books amazonca