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From the 1930s through the 1970s, Chinese American owned supermarkets located outside of Chinatown, catering to a non-Chinese clientele, and featuring mainstream American foods and other products and services rose to prominence and phenomenal success in Northern California, only to decline as union regulations and competition from national chains made their operation unprofitable. Alfred Yee’s study of this trajectory is an insider’s view of a fascinating era in Asian American immigration and entrepreneurship. Drawing on oral interviews with individuals who worked in the business during its peak and decline, he presents an accessible history that illustrates how this once-thriving business fostered the social and economic integration of Chinese Americans into life in the United States. Yee demonstrates how Chinese American supermarkets were able to sell American groceries at reduced prices by using the cheap labor of family members and Chinese immigrants whose entry to the United States had been sponsored by their employers. This type of symbiotic relationship was eventually undermined by labor unions’ demands that employees be covered by labor laws and fully compensated for all hours worked. Also contributing to the ultimate demise of Chinese American supermarkets were increasing costs of capitalization and operation, the dominance of national chain stores, and difficulties arising from traditional Chinese methods of business management.

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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

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Statik in der Ebene.- Schwerpunktslehre.- Reibung.- Dynamik.- Festigkeitslehre.- Fluidmechanik (Hydraulik).- Arbeitspläne.- Lehrbeispiele.- Tabellen.

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In diesem essential ergründet der Autor, was man sich von der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft verspricht, warum die Soziale Marktwirtschaft nicht „sozial“ ist und Lohnsteigerungen nicht helfen, sie sozialer zu machen. Dabei treibt ihn vor allem der Wunsch nach mehr Solidarität. Seine Thesen sind klar und deutlich als Aufruf zu verstehen: Die aktuelle Lohnpolitik führt zur Minderung der Kaufkraft und der Nachfragekraft des Lohns. Das Aufbauen von Vermögen durch Arbeiter scheint nahezu unmöglich. Und die soziale Verantwortung wird nur noch den Tafeln, der Agenda 2010 und dem Mindestlohn überlassen. Um die Gerechtigkeitslücke zu schließen, braucht es ein radikales Umdenken, das Arbeitenden Anteile an Unternehmensgewinnen ermöglicht. Ein Neuentwurf der Erbschaftssteuer für Betriebsvermögen könnte dabei helfen.

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This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health. The author is a medical scientist, with training in the law. The book documents current understanding about pesticides in food, the plastics revolution, toxic metals, air, water and electronic waste pollutants, chemical exposure in the workplace, radiation pollutants, chemical exposure and hearing loss, how our bodies deal with chemicals, genetic variability and the risk of disease, the effect of chemicals on genes, mitochondria and the immune system and what we can do about it all. Industrialisation has resulted in many thousands of chemicals, which are being continuously developed and often escaping from where they are used into our human environment, without us really knowing enough about them. In high dosages or with continuous small dosage, the evidence suggests, that many of them could interfere with human health and some of them are known to be doing so. But for the vast majority, we are left wondering whether some could be responsible for some diseases the causes of which are inadequately understood. Every chapter is thoroughly reinforced with several pages of references from the peer-reviewed literature.

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