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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Revivals The World Electronics Industry
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1990, this book provides an overview of the global distribution of the electronics industry and the structural factors which promoted this distribution by the end of the 1980s. Regarded as a flagship' sector in both advanced and developing countries, the electronics industry is encouraged by governments everywhere. Covering both the civilian and the military sides of the industry, Professor Todd reflects on the future of civilian electronics in the light of its global segmentation, and hints at the fundamental role of governments in the unfolding of both civilian and defence-electronics developments. He also endorses the overwhelming significance of strategies being played by electronics enterprises in both the USA and Japan. Table of ContentsList of Table; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction 2. The Pivotal Global Players 3. Structural Factors 4. Defence Electronics 5. Innovation and Enterprise 6. The Japanese Powerhouse 7. The NIC Challenge 8. Conclusions; Glossary; References; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd LabourIntensive Industrialization in Global
Book SynopsisThe prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement of the quality of labour over the course of several centuries that underscored the timing, pace and quality of global industrialization. While science and technology developed in the West and whereas the use of fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, were vital to this process, the more recent history has been underpinned by the development of comparatively resource- and energy-saving technology, without which the diffusion of industrialization would not have been possible. The labour-intensive, resource-saving path, which emerged in East Asia under the influence of Western technology and institutions, and is diffusing across the world, suggests the most realistic route humans could take forTrade Review"This volume presents an exciting set of economic explanations of global industrial development that fit the historical evidence far better than standard Anglo- or Euro-centric accounts." - Jeff Horn, Department of History, Manhatten College, in EH.Net"This collection of high-quality essays will interest a wide cross-section of economic historians and economists. The book offers a perspective on long-term industrial and economic development which is almost breath-taking in its range and simplicity... No longer confined to conference papers and sometimes rather obscure journals, the central ideas contained in this collection will doubtless lead to a great deal of interest and further research." - Porphant Ouyyanont, School of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Journal of Contemporary Asia"All in all this edited volume is a successful attempt to bring authorities in economic history in dialogue and discuss and assess use and limitations of LII as a perspective." - M. Erdem Kabadayi, Istanbul Bilgi University"This book can be expected to lead academic interchanges between economists and historians in order to consider potentia between economists and historians in order to consider potential development on a global scale...they contributed to opening discussions about the possibility to utilize the local point of view into the comparative histories that the discipline of Global History has promoted for 20 years." - Atsuko Munemura, Kansai University"…this carefully compiled collection not only demonstrates clearly that development paths have diverged considerably in the past, and that successful paths may be based on very different combinations of elements, but also that there are many total or partial failures, while turning points within individual paths have often resulted from non-economic causes." - Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social HistoryTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 Labour-intensive industrialization in global history: an interpretation of East Asian experiences 3 The industrious revolutions in East and West 4 Proto-industrialization and labour-intensive industrialization: reflections on Smithian growth and the role of skill intensity 5 Labour-intensity and industrializaton in colonial India 6 Labour-intensive industrialization in the rural Yangzi Delta: late imperial patterns and their modern fates 7 From peasant economy to urban agglomeration: the transformation of ‘labour-intensive industrialization’ in modern Japan 8 Government promotion of labour-intensive industrialization in Indonesia, 1930–1975 9 Labour intensity and manufacturing in West Africa, c.1450–c.2000 10 ‘Colonial’ industry and ‘modern’ manufacturing: opportunities for labour-intensive growth in Latin America c.1800–1940s 11 Labour-intensive industrialization: the case of nineteenth-century Alsace 12 Labour-intensive industrialization and global economic development: reflections
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Cambridge University Press Mathematical Modeling
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace
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Cambridge University Press Corporate Governance
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Cambridge University Press Brazils StateOwned Enterprises A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur 45 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 45
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Cambridge University Press The Organization of Economic Innovation in Europe
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Cambridge University Press Economic Behaviour Within Organizations
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive economic analysis of the internal working of organizations. Its attention to the role of information costs in influencing the breadth of discretion that members of an organization have, and the nature and effectiveness of the constraints that can be put upon them, leads to many important hypotheses about organizational behavior.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Definitions and determinants of employees' discretion over an organization's resources and production; 3. Employees' resource diversions and employers' imposition of resource responsibility; 4. Short-run resource allocation under fixed budgets; 5. Short-run resource allocation in response to demand: the cases of an employee, a private corporation, and a private nonprofit organization; 6. Legislative demand and short-run price and output of the public organization; 7. Employees' investment behaviour and implications for suborganization; 8. Equilibrium behaviour of public and private organizations in the first long run; 9. The demand and supply of nonmarket resource allocation; 10. A brief summary and proposed directions for further work.
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Cambridge University Press Coal Mining in Chinas Economy and Society 18951937 Cambridge Studies in Chinese History Literature and Institutions
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Cambridge University Press Economics in Urban Conservation
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Cambridge University Press Industrial Organisation and Location 16 Cambridge Geographical Studies Series Number 16
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Cambridge University Press Production and Economic Dynamics
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Cambridge University Press Production Process and Technical Change
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Cambridge University Press Constructing a Competitive Order The Hidden History of British Antitrust Policies
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Cambridge University Press Debating Coal Closures
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Cambridge University Press Oil Trade Politics and Prospects Cambridge Energy and Environment Series
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Cambridge University Press Economic Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia 14 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Theory of Modern Society
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Cambridge University Press Applied Production Analysis
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Cambridge University Press Oil Trade Politics and Prospects Cambridge Energy and Environment Series
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Cambridge University Press Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
Book SynopsisBrazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to produce a significant rubber crop again in Brazil.Trade Review"Dean has written a lucid and solidly researched account of how a particular plant disease prevented the development of an important branch of agriculture in one country, thereby affecting its economic development, Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber is warmly recommended as a perceptive study of the relationship between humans and their environment." ISIS"In his sophisticated integration of ecological concepts into a socioeconomic history of rubber cultivation, Dean sets a high standard." Martin T. Katzman, American Historical Review"Warren Dean spins a good tale and draws some insightful conclusions about the limits of human ability to manipulate the environment." Report on the AmericasTable of ContentsExplanatory notes; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Prometheus in reverse, 1855–1876; 2. Awaiting developments, 1876–1906; 3. Production and folklore, 1876–1910; 4. The reason why, 1904–1923; 5. A jump in the dark, 1923–1940; 6. The battle for rubber, 1940–1945; 7. Administrative discontinuities, 1946–1961; 8. Complete perplexity, 1961–1972; 9. Economically guaranteed, 1973–1986; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Capitalist Development in the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press Pay Up and Play the Game
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Cambridge University Press Labour and Gold in Fiji
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Cambridge University Press Managing the Service Economy
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Cambridge University Press Education Technology and Industrial Performance in Europe 18501939
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Cambridge University Press Stalins Industrial Revolution Politics and Workers 19281932 Politics and Workers 19281931 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 60
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Cambridge University Press The Industrial Revolution in National Context Europe and the USA
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Cambridge University Press The Industrial Revolution in National Context
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Cambridge University Press Production Process and Technical Change
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Cambridge University Press Constructing a Competitive Order
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Cambridge University Press Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Business Community of SeventeenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press Theory of Production
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Cambridge University Press Industry in the Countryside
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Cambridge University Press Forging Industrial Policy
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Cambridge University Press Opting for Oil
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Cambridge University Press Productivity and Growth A Study of British Industry 195486 46 National Institute of Economic and Social Research Occasional Papers Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press The Medieval SuperCompanies
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Cambridge University Press Production and Economic Dynamics
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Cambridge University Press Industrial Constructions
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Cambridge University Press Producing Hegemony The Politics of Mass Production and American Global Power 38 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 38
Book SynopsisIn this book Mark Rupert argues that American global power was shaped by the ways in which mass production was institutionalized in the USA, and by the political and ideological struggles integral to this process. The production of an unprecedented volume of goods propelled the United States to the apex of the global division of labor, ensuring victory in World War II and enabling postwar reconstruction under American leadership. He describes an 'historic bloc' of American statesmen, capitalists and labor leaders who fostered a productivity-oriented political consensus within the USA, and sought to generalize their vision of liberal capitalism around the globe. He focuses on the incorporation of industrial labor as a junior partner in this hegemonic bloc, and argues that the recent erosion of its position under the pressures of transnational competition and the political forces of right wing reaction may open up new possibilities for transformative politics.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Marx, Gramsci and possibilities for radical renewal in IPE; 3. The quality of global power: a relational view of neoliberal hegemony; 4. The emergence of mass production practices and productivist ideology; 5. State-society relations and the politics of industrial transformation in the USA; 6. Fordism vs. unionism: production politics and ideological struggle at Ford Motor Company, 1914–1937; 7. Unionism is Americanism: production politics and ideological struggle at Ford Motor Company, 1937–1952; 8. Fordism and neoliberal hegemony: tensions and possibilities; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Single Market Programme as a Stimulus to Change
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Cambridge University Press Industrial Policy in Britain 19451951
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Cambridge University Press World of Possibilities
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Cambridge University Press A History of Business in Medieval Europe 1200 1550
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Cambridge University Press European ProtoIndustrialization
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Cambridge University Press European ProtoIndustrialization
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