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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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University of Missouri Press A Missouri Railroad Pioneer
Book SynopsisLawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Louis Houck is often called the ""Father of Southeast Missouri"" because he brought the railroad to the region and opened this backwater area to industrialization and modernization. Although Houck's name is little known today outside Missouri, Joel Rhodes shows how his story has relevance for both the state and America.Trade ReviewReaders with an interest in Missouri history and the Southeast will find much to engage with, especially given Houck’s status as a local historian and intellectual. Those seeking to understand the complicated legal and financial arrangements contingent in the building of railroads in Missouri and the nation will also find this book useful."" - Southern Historian""Readers will be impressed with the skill Rhodes has mustered and researched the material for this volume from family descendants, archives, and published sources. The author makes what must have been a morass of material as thick and tangled as any southeast Missouri swamp into a very readable history."" - Missouri Historical ReviewTable of Contents A Missouri Railroad Pioneer Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Wanderjahre Chapter 2 Volksblatt Chapter 3 The Belle of Cape Girardeau Chapter 4 To Cogitate and To Dream: The Coming of the Railroad Chapter 5 The Houck Roads Chapter 6 Zwei Meinungen: Of Two Minds Chapter 7 A Damn Fine Lawyer Chapter 8 St. Louis, Kennett and Southern Allied Lines Chapter 9 Academic Hall Chapter 10 The Histories Chapter 11 Cape Girardeau Northern Chapter 12 The Big Ditch Chapter 13 A Quiet Religious Mood Bibliography Index
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd A History of the Cotton Industry
Book SynopsisThis book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of the cotton industry was the starting point for one of the great turning points in history the industrial revolution. It began with the importation of cloth into Britain from India and that created a new fashion. As the demand for cotton cloth grew, British inventors began to find ways of making the same cloth using powered machinery and built the first cotton mills. The old way of life of the textile workers was transformed, as work moved from home to factory and thousands of small children were brought in to tend the new machines. If conditions in the cotton towns were bad, they were far worse in America where, thanks to the work of slaves, the country took over the supply of raw material from India. During the American Civil War, Britain turned again to India for its supplies. Today, positions have changed dramatically. India again has a
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Abrams Electric City The Lost History of Ford and
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning author Thomas Hager, Electric City is the extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history—Henry Ford and Thomas Edison—and their attempt to create an electric-powered city of tomorrow on the Tennessee River. During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country’s poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s “Detroit of the South” would be 10 times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy, and free of air pollution. And it would reshape American society, introducing mass commuting by car, use a new kind of currency called “energy dollars,” and have the added benefit (from Ford and Edison’s view) of crippling the growth of socialism. The whole audacious scTrade ReviewA well-researched, crisply written account tinged with irony * The Wall Street Journal *“With incisive character sketches and insights into the tension between private and public interests, this is an illuminating portrait of a little-known chapter in American history.” * Publishers Weekly *“a beguiling history of the City That Almost Was...shining a crisp light on the tensions between private and public development with which we still grapple today.” * Garden & Gun Magazine *“as compelling as a good novel...Electric City is an excellent, illuminating narrative about an intriguing moment in American history that wound up having repercussions for generations.” * The Oregonian *“Thomas Hager’s Electric City is a rollicking and well-constructed story about power—electric power, political power, financial power—with a gallery of colorful and deeply human characters fighting to own the future. Hager brings Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and forgotten progressive giants like George Norris alive on the page. And he untangles complex but important strands of American history for easy inspection. In his capable hands, Muscle Shoals—and the Tennessee Valley Authority—are no longer dusty relics but fascinating examples of the great American experiment.” -- Jonathan Alter * author of The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope *“The best books about American history combine larger-than-life participants, engaging writing, and surprising twists and turns that provide both entertainment and the real story rather than mythology. Electric City by Thomas Hager checks every box. This is a book you don't want to miss.” -- Jeff Guinn * New York Times bestselling author of The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten- *“Electric City is an important story, well told. For decades the Tennessee River valley was a canvas on which visionaries sketched a plan for America’s future. Thomas Hager shows how hydropower and political power intertwined in a contest over who should own the river and its resources. A rich cast of characters drafted competing blueprints, each promising to engineer a resolution to the growing divide between urban and rural America. Their failures are as instructive as their successes.” -- Ernest Freeberg * author of The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America *“Engrossing...Hager’s portrayal of the key players...is revelatory...A willingness to conjecture sets Hager apart from many of his contemporaries. That this ‘Electric City’ was only ever a dream does not detract from Hager’s masterful storytelling and keen eye for details that bring history of life.” * Southern Review of Books *"[a] fascinating, widely-sweeping slice of Americana” * Winchester Sun *Electric City offers useful insights into why so many planned projects never come to fruition. * City Journal *
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Temple University Press,U.S. Dangerous Trade
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive survey of the global history of industrial hazards and their controlTrade Review"No other work addresses industrial hazards with such geographic breadth and historical depth. Together, the essays in Dangerous Trade offer a damning indictment of capitalism's impact on working people and the environments in which they have labored and lived. Just as importantly, Dangerous Trade also makes a compelling case regarding the role of workers' movements in improving public health in and beyond the workplace. This book, in short, offers something new to a range of practitioners and academics." -Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder "The authors' backgrounds run the gamut from anthropology to medicine, so the authors offer diverse perspectives on both the history of industrial pollution and the current state of these problems across the globe. The nations discussed range from developing countries like Malaysia, Nigeria, and Mexico to more developed nations like France, Spain, and Italy. The array of problems considered is also broad, including, for example, rubber plantations, liquefied natural gas, oil, asbestos, and mercury. This book is a fine account of some international problems in industrial health and is especially valuable for undergraduate collections that support environmental programs. Summing Up: Highly Recommended." -CHOICE "[A] compelling collection of essays that provides integral groundwork for understanding our contemporary globalized industrial hazards... These essays show the challenges confronting our contemporary globalized industrial hazard situation including scientific and lay knowledge production and the translation of resistance to regulation... Together these essays provide an important foundation for looking at industrial hazards on a larger geographic scope and through a wider interdisciplinary lens." -Environmental HistoryTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: From Dangerous Trades to Trade in Dangers: Toward an Industrial Hazard History of the Present / Christopher Sellers and Joseph Melling Part I: The Late Nineteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century Creating Industrial Hazards in the Developing World 1. Rubber Plantation Workers, Work Hazards, and Health in Colonial Malaya, 1900-1940 / Amarjit Kaur 2. Work, Home, and Natural Environments: Health and Safety in the Mexican Oil Industry, 1900-1938 / Myrna Santiago Knowing and Controlling in the Developed World 3. Global Markets and Local Conflicts in Mercury Mining: Industrial Restructuring and Workplace Hazards at the Almaden Mines in the Early Twentieth Century / Alfredo Menendez-Navarro 4. Trade, Spores, and the Culture of Disease: Attempts to Regulate Anthrax in Britain and Its International Trade, 1875-1930 / Tim Carter and Joseph Melling 5. Rayon, Carbon Disulfide, and the Emergence of the Multinational Corporation in Occupational Disease / Paul D. Blanc Part II: The Middle to the Late Twentieth Century New Transfers of Production 6. Shipping the "Next Prize": The Trade in Liquefied Natural Gas from Nigeria to Mexico / Anna Zalik 7. New Hazards and Old Disease: Lead Contamination and the Uruguayan Battery Industry / Daniel E. Renfrew New Knowledge and Coalitions 8. Objective Collectives? Transnationalism and "Invisible Colleges" in Occupational and Environmental Health from Collis to Selikoff / Joseph Melling and Christopher Sellers 9. Bread and Poison: The Story of Labor Environmentalism in Italy, 1968-1998 / Stefania Barca 10. A New Environmental Turn? How the Environment Came to the Rescue of Occupational Health: Asbestos in France c. 1970-1995 / Emmanuel Henry New Arenas of Contest 11. A Tale of Two Lawsuits: Making Policy-Relevant Environmental Health Knowledge in Italian and U.S. Chemical Regions / Barbara Allen 12. Pesticide Regulation, Citizen Action, and Toxic Trade: The Role of the Nation-State in the Transnational History of DBCP / Susanna Rankin Bohme 13. Turning the Tide: The Struggle for Compensation for Asbestos-Related Diseases and the Banning of Asbestos / Barry Castleman and Geoffrey Tweedale Conclusion / Joseph Melling and Christopher Sellers, with Barry Castleman Contributors Index
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University of Scranton Press,U.S. Stories from the Mines
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania to work in the coal mines. "Stories from the Mines" chronicles the struggle of these miners to earn a decent wage, alleviate dangerous working conditions, and gain respect. The perilous work the miners performed for extremely low pay, Greg Matkosky and Thomas M. Curra argue, laid the foundation for America's Industrial Revolution and the modern labor movement. This powerful book traces the miners' epic human rights battle from their arrival in the United States to the Great Strike of 1902 and the inception of the United Mine Workers. Its companion documentary, available separately on DVD, blends dramatic reenactments and never-before-seen archival footage and photographs to recount a conflict that inspired the involvement of Clarence Darrow and Theodore Roosevelt. "Stories from the Mines" highlights the indelible contribution to America's history made by anthracite coal and the men who mined it.
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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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University of Delaware Press England's Asian Renaissance
Book SynopsisEngland's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of Contents England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli Part 1 The Eurasian Continuum 1 The Ottomans in and of Europe Abdulhamit Arvas 2 Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit Nedda Mehdizadeh 3 The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination Thea Buckley Part 2 Religious and Cultural Negotiations 4 Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making of Europe Jennifer Feather 5 Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies Amrita Sen 6 Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early Modern England Rachana Sachdev Part 3 Making the English Stage Eastern 7 Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity, Admiration, and Authority in 1604 Emily Soon 8 Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Bourse Richmond Barbour Bibliography About the Contributors
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University of Delaware Press England's Asian Renaissance
Book SynopsisEngland's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia.Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of Contents England’s Asian Renaissance: An Introduction Su Fang Ng and Carmen Nocentelli Part 1 The Eurasian Continuum 1 The Ottomans in and of Europe Abdulhamit Arvas 2 Robert Sherley and the Persian Habit Nedda Mehdizadeh 3 The East India Spice Trade and the Circulation of Shakespearean Imagination Thea Buckley Part 2 Religious and Cultural Negotiations 4 Religious Emotion and Racialization: Marlowe’s Sigismund and the Making of Europe Jennifer Feather 5 Solomon, Ophir, and the English Quest for the East Indies Amrita Sen 6 Welfare and Work for All: King Lear and Poor Relief in China and Early Modern England Rachana Sachdev Part 3 Making the English Stage Eastern 7 Staging China and India in Jacobean Court Masques: Negotiating Antiquity, Admiration, and Authority in 1604 Emily Soon 8 Constructing the New Exchange: Jonson’s Entertainment at Britain’s Bourse Richmond Barbour Bibliography About the Contributors
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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 Wales Press New Perspectives on Welsh Industrial History
Book SynopsisThis volume tells a story of Welsh industrial history different from the one traditionally dominated by the coal and iron communities of Victorian and Edwardian Wales. Extending the chronological scope from the early eighteenth- to the late twentieth-century, and encompassing a wider range of industries, the contributors combine studies of the internal organisation of workplace and production with outward-facing perspectives of Welsh industry in the context of the global economy. The volume offers important new insights into the companies, the employers, the markets and the money behind some of the key sectors of the Welsh economy – from coal to copper, and from steel to manufacturing – and challenges us to reconsider what we think of as constituting ‘industry’ in Wales.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Tables and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Industrial Wales: historical traditions and approaches - Louise Miskell 1. Welsh Copper: what, when and where? - Chris Evans 2. Enumerating the Welsh-French coal trade c.1833‒1913: opening Pandora’s Box - Trevor Boyns 3. Hidden Labours: the domestic service industry in south Wales, 1871–1921 - Carys Howells 4. From Paternalism to Industrial Partnership: the evolution of industrial welfare capitalism in south Wales, c.1840-1939 - Steven Thompson 5. The Affluent Striker: Industrial Disputes in the Port Talbot Steelworks, 1945–79 - Bleddyn Penny 6. From Margam to Mauritania: The Steel Company of Wales and the globalization of iron ore supplies, 1952–1960 - Louise Miskell 7. The Age of Factories: the rise and fall of manufacturing in south Wales, 1945–1985 - Leon Gooberman, Ben Curtis 8. The Welsh Development Agency: activities and impact, 1976 to 2006 - Leon Gooberman Trevor Boyns Bibliography
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Countryside Books Memories of the Lancashire Aircraft Industry
Book SynopsisThe Blackpool Aviation week in 1909 marked the beginning. Early pioneers performed a number of flying feats which were rewarded with prizes given by the Daily Mail and the then Manchester Guardian. After this Henry Greg Melly set up a flying school on Freshfield beach at Formby and A V Roe founded his AVRO company. Meanwhile, English Electric decided to open up an aircraft building firm based at Samlesbury near Preston. They produced the Hampden and Halifax bombers used during the Second World War. Ron Freethy's well researched book also includes many firsthand accounts provided by local people from their own memories and those of their parents. These bring the story alive and, combined with many photographs, create a lasting record of the county's place in British aviation history.
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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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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Eisenverhuttung Im Dursteltal: Ein Hochofen Des
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Industrialization of India
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