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The University of Chicago Press Patterns in Circulation Cloth Gender and
Book SynopsisIn this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women through the making and circulation of wax cloth became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil its critical role in colonial and postcolonial patterns of exchange and value production. Sylvanus brings wax cloth's unique and complex history to light: born as a nineteenth-century Dutch colonial effort to copy Javanese batik cloth for Southeast Asian markets, it was reborn as a status marker that has dominated the visual economy of West African markets. Although most wax cloth is produced in China today, it continues to be central to the expression of West African women's identity and power. As Sylvanus shows, wax cloth expresses more than this global motion of goods, capital, aesthetics,
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The University of Chicago Press Tight Knit Global Families and the Social Life
Book SynopsisThe coveted Made in Italy label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as ElizabethL. Krause uncovers in Tight Knit, Chinese migrants are the ones sewing Made in Italy labels into low-cost items for a thriving fast-fashion industryall the while adding new patterns to the social fabric of Italy's iconic industry. Krause offers a revelatory look into how families involved in the fashion industry are coping with globalization based on longterm research in Prato, the historic hub of textile productionin the heart of metropolitan Tuscany. She brings to the fore the tensionsover value, money, beauty, family, care, and belongingthat are reaching a boiling point as the country struggles to deal with the same migration pressures that are triggering backlash all over Europe and North America. Tight Knit tells a fascinating story about the heterogeneity of
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MO - University of Illinois Press Holding Up More Than Half the Sky
Book SynopsisIn 1982, 20,000 Chinese American garment workers - mostly women - went on strike in New York's Chinatown and forced Chinese garment industry employers in the city to sign a union contract. This study explains how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.Trade Review"Bao does an excellent job in not only portraying Chinese women workers' work and lives, but also revealing that the Chinese women's labor history in New York's garment industry is also part of American labor history, and they can only fully be understood through the complex interactions of race/ethnicity, class, and gender."--Wei Li, Journal of Asian Studies"A significant reference for scholars of women's studies, Chinese American history, immigration history, and labor history."--Huping Ling, American Historical Review"Offers a nuanced picture of transformations in personal and family life. Particularly successful are the portrayals of women's growing financial and emotional centrality in the family and of relations among Chinese women born in different parts of the world."--Adam McKeown, Journal of American History"Xiaolan Bao's book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Chinese American historical experiences. This excellent case study is a fine example of serious empirical investigation."--Renqiu Yu, Journal of American Ethnic History"Bao's research offers valuable insights into the intersection of race and class, one of the central questions in her book. . . . Bao's work reminds us that to fully appreciate how the two dimensions of race and class intersected, we also need to take a gendered perspective."--Left History"Theoretically informed and thoroughly researched, this multilayered study demonstrates the author's grasp of the complex experiences of the Chinese garment workers and their place within the larger historical context."--Business History Review"Xiaolan Bao has written a moving and important book about Chinese women in New York City's garment industry. Because of her reliance on more than a hundred oral histories, she makes the women speak for themselves as well as inform the reader. Historians of immigration and women will find this a gem."--David M. Reimers, author of Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America"This monumental study thoroughly examines the peculiar nature and situation of the Chinese female garment workers and their relations within their community and family, with their employers, and with the American unions. Xiaolan Bao's use of interviews, newspapers, and other sources in both Chinese and English makes this work particularly valuable."--Sue Fawn Chung, author of Power and Influence: The Hongmen Zhigongtang, a Chinese Secret Society in the American West
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MO - University of Illinois Press Glass Towns Industry Labor and Political Economy
Book SynopsisExploring a path not taken in Appalachian economic development--one that might have led away from underdevelopmentTrade Review"While those interested in the region's local history will enjoy the chapters dealing with the West Virginia glass towns, the book will appeal primarily to academic audiences. Those interested in business, labor, and ethnic history will find this to be a useful study. Recommended."--Choice "Ken Fones-Wolf's long awaited study on the glass industry in West Virginia is a welcome corrective, offering readers a more complex and polychromatic, albeit still bleak, narrative of Appalachia's economic past. . . . Fones-Wolf is able not only to trace the history of glass-making in each community, but also to make interesting comparisons and contrasts among the three regarding structure and behavior of labor, the organization and strategies adopted by capital, the differential technological imperatives in each branch of the industry, and the manner in which the local factors shaped the political economy of each community."--Labor History "Glass Towns effectively chronicles a story of the restructuring of both local and state economies in which technological, economic, political, geographical, cultural, and geological factors all shaped the process."--Technology and Culture"Ken Fones-Wolf helps to broaden our vision of capitalist development in the mountains with his perceptive study of West Virginia's glass industry. . . . This well-researched and highly readable study forces us to look beyond coal and other extractive industries for explanations of the economic and political distress that has plagued the region."--West Virginia History"By relating political and economic decisions to one another, Glass Towns offers a more complex look at West Virginia history and may well serve as a model for future historical research about the Mountain State and the Appalachian region."--Goldenseal"Ken Fones-Wolf has written a fine, provocative and iconoclastic book that merits most serious attention. It encourages a rethinking of glass-making on both sides of the Atlantic and a much needed reappraisal of the making of one of America's most interesting and perplexing regions."--International Review of Social History
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Chemicals and LongTerm Economic Growth
Book SynopsisThis magisterial volume will be the definitive study of the economics and history of the chemical industry for many years to come. The core of the volume is a study of the process of innovation in the first industry to employ science as a basis for technology. This extends over 150 years and covers four leading countries-Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States. . . . The book will be of interest to participants in the industry, economists, and economic historians interested in growth, business school faculty and students concerned with corporate strategy, especially the management of technical change, and finally, policymakers who create the legal and political environment within which the industry has developed.-Dale W. Jorgenson, Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics, Harvard University The chemical industry will continue to be a leading indicator of economic development in the century ahead. The research and conclusions of Ralph Landau and his colleagues captureTrade Review"Thirteen papers study how commercial technological leadership in the chemical industry has moved across countries and firms over the last century and a half, and the forces that powered this shifting leadership." (Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 39, No. 4, December 2001)Table of ContentsORGANIZATION AND PURPOSE. Introduction (A. Arora, et al.). COUNTRY OVERVIEWS. On the Making of Competitive Advantage: The Development of the Chemical Industries of Britain and Germany Since 1850 (J. Murmann & R. Landau). Chemicals: A U.S. Success Story (A. Arora & N. Rosenberg). The Japanese Puzzle (T. Hikino, et al.). INNOVATION AT THE HEART OF THE INDUSTRY. The Process of Innovation in the Chemical Industry (R. Landau). The Impact of the Legal System on Innovation (T. Campbell & R. Landau). Technological Change in Chemicals: The Role of University-Industry Relations (N. Rosenberg). SURVEYING THE LEVELS OF THE MATRIX. The Industry Evolves Within a Political, Social, and Public Policy Context: A Brief Look at Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States (M. Horstmeyer). Monetary, Fiscal, and Trade Policies in the Development of the Chemical Industry (B. Eichengreen). Finance and the Chemical Industry (M. Da Rin). Structure and Performance of the Chemical Industry under Regulation (K. Esteghamat). Evolution of Industry Structure in the Chemical Industry (A. Arora & A. Gambardella). The Evolution of Corporate Capability and Corporate Strategy and Structure Within the World's Largest Chemical Firms: The Twentieth Century in Perspective (A. Chandler, et al.). THE MODERN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE. Connecting Performance and Competitiveness with Finance: A Study of the Chemical Industry (A. Richards). INSIGHTS FROM THIS STUDY. Conclusions (A. Arora, et al.). About the Contributors. Index.
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The University of Michigan Press The Vernors Story
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Age of Homespun the Vintage Objects and Stories
Book SynopsisThey began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history. In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The objects Ulrich investigates unravel those simplified illusions, revealing important clues to the culture and people who made them. Ulrich uses an Indian basket to explore the uneasy coexistence of native and colonial Americans. A piece of silk embroidery reveals racial and class distinctions, and two old spinning wheels illuminate the connections between colonial cloth-making and war. Pulling these divergent threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made, used, sold, and saved textiles in order to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Billionaire Murders The Mysterious Deaths of
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER*NOW A FOUR-PART CRAVE ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES*A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in late 2017 when their bodies were found in a bizarre tableau in their elegant Toronto home. First described as murder-suicide — belts looped around their necks, they were found seated beside their basement swimming pool — police later ruled it a staged, targeted double murder. Nothing about the case made sense to friends of the founder of one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical firms and his wife, a powerhouse in Canada’s charity world. Together, their wealth has been estimated at well over $4.7 billion. There was another side to the story. A strategic genius who built a large generic drug company &mdash
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Ebury Publishing Unprocessed
Book Synopsis''Explores the profound link between the food we eat and the way we think and feel'' Radio 4 Start the Week''A powerful book that breaks down the dangerous beliefs that food is just fuel and delivers an important message we can all get behind... the evidence Kimberley presents in this book will change lives and hopefully policy'' - Professor Tim SpectorWe all know that as a nation our mental health is in crisis. But what most don''t know is that a critical ingredient in this debate, and a crucial part of the solution - what we eat - is being ignored.Nutrition has more influence on what we feel, who we become and how we behave than we could ever have imagined. It affects everything from our decision-making to aggression and violence. Yet mental health disorders are overwhelmingly treated as ''mind'' problems as if the physical brain - and how we feed it - is irrelevant. Someone suffering from depression is moreTrade ReviewThis is a really important book - identifying one of the most alarming ways that our poor diet hurts us. Our brains are as severely affected as our bodies. Packed with science, hope and a clear demand for much needed change. * Chris van Tulleken *A powerful book that breaks down the dangerous beliefs that food is just fuel and delivers an important message we can all get behind - eat for your body and your brain! With a mental health crisis on our hands and over 50% of our diets coming from UPFs the evidence Kimberley presents in this book will change lives and hopefully policy. * Professor Tim Spector *Kimberley Wilson kick-starts a hugely important conversation that not many are having. A powerful read. Everybody needs to read this book. * Fearne Cotton *Marks a transformation in our thinking about diets. With luck it may one day make our brains better, a development that is long overdue... an essential and urgent read. * Sunday Times *
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