Industrialisation and industrial history Books
Cambridge University Press Guilds Innovation and the European Economy 1400 1800
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Cambridge University Press Making a New Deal
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Boeing from Technological
Book SynopsisOrganizations rise or fall based on misreading of external signals as well as internal factors ? strong or weak management, leadership and governance, proactive or reactive benchmarks of innovation and performance. This Element addresses the commercial aerospace sector the case study of Boeing Corporation. Boeing and Airbus illustrate the dynamics of competitive rivalry, the shifting attention span of senior leaders. Beset by internal dysfunctions, product delays and certification challenges, Boeing has a negative net worth, and perverse executive incentives, financial engineering values, and governance dysfunctions when confronting the changes facing the main customers, the airline industry. Boeing trails its European rival in market share, R&D investments, and diverse product line based on seat size, pricing, and distance. This case study provides an opportunity to suggest new research directions on governance and managing truly complex organizations.
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Boeing from Technological Leadership to Financial Engineering and Decline
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University of Washington Press Picturing India People Places and the World of
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W. W. Norton & Company Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making
Book SynopsisA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Required reading for anyone interested in the history of American railroading…This is an exciting story and well told." -- John Steele Gordon - Wall Street Journal"A model of narrative skill and [an] insightful reinterpretation of the Gilded Age. It is easily the best business history I have read." -- Donald Worster - Slate"A scathing and wonderful new book. [Railroaded] will entertain and outrage readers." -- Buzzy Jackson - Boston Globe"An acute analysis that in failure came success and in many ways the map of the nation." -- Scott Martelle - Washington Post"Imaginative, iconoclastic, immensely informative and mordantly funny." -- Glenn C. Altschuler - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"A different and provocative view of the role of the transcontinentals in developing the American West. Railroaded will no doubt spark lively debate and become required reading for those seeking an insightful and recast history of the transcontinental railroad saga." -- Walter R. Borneman - San Francisco Chronicle"Richard White is one of those rare historians with an unfailing ability to transform any topic he writes about, no matter how familiar that topic might seem. In Railroaded, he tells the story of the western transcontinentals as it has never been told before, with insights that speak as much to our own time as to the nineteenth-century era he explores with such wit and intelligence." -- William Cronon, author of Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West"When it comes to the American West, there is no other writer like Richard White, a serious scholar with a highly original take on familiar subjects and elegant prose besides. His subject, the making of the transcontinental railroads, is perhaps the pivotal story of the West, but it’s not the one we know from movies and myth. It’s about the birth of all those things that most trouble us nowadays, a genesis story in which the serpent in Eden is the railroad itself writhing across the continent." -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwell's Roses"This brilliant book will forever change our understanding of the great railroad projects of nineteenth-century America." -- William Deverell, director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West"Excellent big-picture, popularly written history of the Howard Zinn mold, backed by a mountain of research and statistics." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Mine to Mill History of the Great Lakes Iron
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Business of Speed
Book SynopsisLucsko offers a rich and heretofore untold account of the culture and technology of the high-performance automotive aftermarket in the United States, offering a fresh perspective on the history of the automobile in America.Trade ReviewLucsko does an exceptional job of telling the story of the performance tuning industry's evolution over seven decades. The book is thoroughly researched, including the players, the genesis of the automotive aftermarket industry, and how the business of speed evolved across America. -- Dennis E. Horvath Cruise-In.com 2008 A really informative read. Retro Cars 2009 The Business of Speed is the most extensive study of hot rodding yet published and will be the starting point for future scholars of this multi-billion dollar industry and its associated under-hood cultures. -- Kevin Borg Technology and Culture 2009 Lucsko brings a jeweler's eye to his examination of the history of the automobile aftermarket... In writing about ti, Lucsko is all business, his research is plentiful, and his expository prose is flawless... This is a very valuable contribution to automobile history and culture. Choice 2009 The Business of Speed is clearly written, insightfully argued, and exceptionally successful in explaining the highly technical modifications to stock automobiles... In the hands of an inferior writer, these details could have made the book intellectually inaccessible. -- Christopher W. Wells Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Faster Flivvers, 1915–19272. Westward Ho, 1928–19423. From Hot Rods to Hot Rodding, 1945–19554. The California Hot Rod Industry, 1945–19555. Factory Muscle, 1955–19706. Bolt-on Power, 1955–19707. The Speed Equipment Manufacturers Association8. "Ink-Happy Do-Gooders," 1960–19789. "This Dreadful Conspiracy," 1966–198410. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times, 1970–1990ConclusionNotesGlossaryEssay on SourcesIndex
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Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned Connecticut: The Twilight of American
Book Synopsis"What is left after the last embers of an Industrial Revolution finally die? What do we find when we go sifting through the ashes of the past? Connecticut was home to everything from textile mills to brassworks to coal-fired power plants. As these once-great industries of the American Northeast slowly dried up and gave way to a new landscape, they left behind a string of abandoned, forgotten facilities dotting the state. Now they have become galleries of graffiti, shelter for the homeless, and living museums of an often-clouded past. In Abandoned Connecticut, photographer J. R. Washburn gives the reader a first-hand account of his time exploring these modern ruins. Over 150 haunting photographs and a running personal narrative put the reader in his mud-covered boots as he experiences the past, present, and future of these icons of American history."
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Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned Gary Indiana
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Fonthill Media LLc Abandoned Pennsylvania
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Founders of the Future: The Science and Industry
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious new interdisciplinary study, Useche proposes the metaphor of the social foundry to parse how industrialization informed and shaped cultural and national discourses in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spain. Across a variety of texts, Spanish writers, scientists, educators, and politicians appropriated the new economies of industrial production—particularly its emphasis on the human capacity to transform reality through energy and work—to produce new conceptual frameworks that changed their vision of the future. These influences soon appeared in plans to enhance the nation’s productivity, justify systems of class stratification and labor exploitation, or suggest state organizational improvements. This fresh look at canonical writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concha Espina, Benito Pérez Galdós, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, and José Echegaray as well as lesser known authors offers close readings of their work as it reflected the complexity of Spain’s process of modernization. Trade Review"At the crossroads of industry and ideology, Useche reveals the 'semiological engine' of a paradigm shift in fin-de-siglo Spain that spans the discursive horizon of modernization and progress. Attentive to economics, education, labor practices, technology, and the environment, this study explores how coetaneous, often contradictory currents of thought confronted change through new ways of imagining a symbolic advancement that was at once liberating and threatening for Spain’s tomorrow."— Travis Landry, editor of The Fruits of the Struggle in Diplomacy and War: Moroccan Ambassador al-Ghazzal and His Di "Founders of the Future establishes Spain as a vital player in late nineteenth-century discussions of modernization, industrialization, and energy. With a background in engineering and a fine ear for language, Óscar Iván Useche looks beyond well-known works to show how metaphors in popular science writing shaped attitudes toward energy, industrial production, and Spain’s possibilities."— Laura Otis, author of Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel "Each chapter of this finely-crafted book paints a lucid picture of the productive incorporation of industrial language and imagery into the discursive fabric of fin-de-siglo Spanish society. Researchers, historians, and scholars from diverse disciplines and theoretical backgrounds will no doubt find Useche’s book a rich source for reflection."— Nicolás Fernández-Medina, author of Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity "Founders of the Future uncovers the new logic in Spain’s late nineteenth-century industrialization and modernization. It offers a unique perspective for mapping how different sectors of Spanish society viewed technological innovation, a 'social foundry' whence to forge regenerative approaches to Spain’s social, political, and economic problems."— Dale Pratt, author of Signs of Science: Literature, Science and Spanish Modernity Since 1868Table of ContentsNote on Translations Introduction: Reaching Out into the Future 1 The Social Foundry 2 Economy and Other Matters of State 3 The Educational Engine 4 Social Engineering 5 Technologies of Mass Diffusion 6 Industrial Footprint Conclusion: The Unreachable Future Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Verso Books Work: The Last 1,000 Years
Book SynopsisBy the end of the nineteenth century, the general Western conception of work had been reduced to simply gainful employment. But this limited perspective contrasted sharply with the personal experience of most people in the world-whether in colonies, developing countries or in the industrializing world. Moreover, from a feminist perspective, reducing work and the production of value to remunerated employment has never been convincing.Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she sheds light on the complex coexistence of multiple forms of labour (paid/unpaid, free/ unfree, with various forms of legal regulation and social protection and so on) on the local and the world levels. Combining this global approach with a gender perspective opens our eyes to the varieties of work and labour and their combination in households and commodity chains across the planet-processes that enable capital accumulation not only by extracting surplus value from wage-labour, but also through other forms of value transfer, realized by tapping into households' subsistence production, informal occupation and makeshift employment. As the debate about work and its supposed disappearance intensifies, Komlosy's book provides a crucial shift in the angle of vision.Trade ReviewAs Andrea Komlosy argues in Work: The Last 1,000 Years, our conception of what constitutes work has changed markedly over time. The professor of social history at the University of Vienna writes that our commonly accepted definitions are too narrow, too European, too male and too modern -- John Thornhill * Financial Times *Komlosy's book is deeply researched, lucid and persuasive. -- Joe Moran * Times Literary Supplement *Komlosy's analysis is a helpful reminder that our familiar understanding of work is narrow and historically exceptional. The hierarchy we have established in the industrialized West, placing permanent, full-time, legally contracted wage work at the top of a pyramid of social good, is deeply flawed-denigrating not only those millions who work outside its confines, but also devaluing and neglecting the kinds of nonwork activities that enrich and give meaning to human lives. By showing that "work" may exist without wages, a boss or a workplace outside the home, Komlosy's analysis allows us to think more broadly about what we value, and whether we want to continue to separate work and life. -- Joanna Scutts * In These Times *Andrea Komlosy has written an important book on the global history of work during the past 800 years. Looking at particular moments (1250, 1500, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2010), she charts how understandings of work and work practices have shifted-from household focused subsistence labor to the widespread commodification of labor in various forms. Her two most important contributions are that she thinks about labor on a global scale, thus overcoming a deep Eurocentric bias in much of the labor history as it exists, and that she brings feminist conversations on labor into an analysis of virtually all aspects of labor history. Her book is unique, I am not aware of any other such volume. -- Sven BeckertThis is a book teeming with insights, from the contempt for manual labour in ancient Greece to the historical tendency for all kinds of subsistence tasks to be "housewife-ized" into unpaid domestic labour. -- Barbara Kiser * Nature *Written in well-defined thematic sections that give the reader a thorough understanding of how labour as well as labour profiles have changed over the ages. * Down To Earth *The theoretical and historical scope of the book is impressive. * Insight Turkey *In Work, Komlosy, an economic and social history professor at the University of Vienna in Austria, provides a sweeping overview of how ideas and definitions about work have evolved over the last 1,000 years, calling out the very limited conception of work offered by traditional labor studies and Marxist perspectives.Komlosy's book is ambitious in its brevity: she condenses a millennium of global history into just 225 pages, justifying her far-reaching geographic and historical scope as necessary for avoiding the Eurocentric and patriarchal biases in traditional conceptions of work. -- Lauren Kaori Gurley * Indypendent *Capturing this churn [in both work itself and our ideas about it] is the difficult task that historian Andrea Komlosy attempts in her new book Work: The Last 1,000 Years..Komlosy attempts the monumental task of writing a large-scale global history of labor adequate to the growing instability in how we define and participate in work. -- Gabriel Winant * The Nation *A fascinating book -- Laurie Taylor * Thinking Allowed *
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University of Hertfordshire Press Industrial Letchworth: The first garden city
Book SynopsisIn spite of being named the first 'Garden City', Letchworth was conceived as a model industrial town built on enterprise and employment. Never intended to be merely a pleasant place to live, it needed to be large enough to encourage the mass movement of manufacturers and their employees from overcrowded cities and to function as a self-supporting new town. In this richly illustrated account, Letchworth Local History Research Group look in detail at the town's foundation in the early 1900s and the energetic organisation and administration that enabled it to get off the ground quickly and successfully. Based on new research into a wealth of source material, the book puts to rest some of the enduring myths about the garden city, revealing a nuanced picture of the founding of a working community. The collaborative efforts of First Garden City Ltd (FGC), the development company for the new town, are a key focus. Extremely well-connected, experienced and highly influential, the senior management of FGC (including Ebenezer Howard), together with a team of engineers as well as architects Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin, were able to provide key infrastructure and sites for development in keeping with a clear strategy. Naturally there were challenges and the need for capital to maintain momentum posed considerable difficulties. But strong leadership saw the fledgling town through some tough periods, including the first world war. The second part of the book comprises a detailed gazetteer of the industries that established themselves in Letchworth in its early years, with rare archive photographs showing both premises and workers. From printing and publishing, to motor manufacture, foundries, clothing and pioneering cinematic companies, the story of Letchworth's early industry is lively and unique.Table of ContentsFirst Garden City and their model town SECTION 1 Introduction Developing the land at Hitchin was a risk Getting started at Letchworth Progress on the estate infrastructure - road making Population growth and demand for housing Financing the first Garden City SECTION 2 THE INDUSTRIES Printing, binding and publishing in the Garden City Motor industry in Letchworth Foundries and other engineering manufacturers Textiles and clothing Precision manufacture Co-operatives - societies and associated industries in Letchworth Photography (and cinema) Service industries Cottage industries Landholding, agriculture and smallholding Tenement Factory: multi industry facilities How the War affected Letchworth CONCLUSIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCES
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Brepols N.V. Music and the Second Industrial Revolution
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Aschendorff Verlag Findbuch Zum Bestand Dortmund-Horder Huttenunion
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Carl Zeiss: A Biography 1816-1888
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Bohlau Verlag Thüringen im Industriezeitalter: Konzepte,
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Wasserkraft im Dienst des Sozialismus
Book SynopsisDas Buch analysiert erstmals sowjetische Quellen und behandelt die sozialistische Seite der Geschichte des globalen Staudammbaus.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Organisation und Geschäft:
Book SynopsisText in German. The phase of the so-called "Second Industrialization" at the turn of the century was characterized in Germany and France by new forms of industrial production, but also by mass consumption. This led to changed organizational forms in the production of large companies. For the first time, systematic management teachings and thus new directions in organizational science literature developed. In both countries, entrepreneurs began to structure their businesses in a reflective way, to professionalize management and to think through problems of work organization. This process is extensively examined in the present work. The comparison between the neighboring countries, both of which are among the most industrialized countries in Europe, is intended to clarify how this new organizational theory was similar in large companies, but also which branch-specific and national peculiarities gained importance in the companies.
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Industrialization of India
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