Search results for “[Subject: industrial]”

• Author(s): Bruce E. Kaufman • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations

• Author(s): Quentin R. Skrabec • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The rubber industry was born in bankruptcy and built through bankruptcies. As this history details,...

• Author(s): Steven High • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanDeindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past--th...

• Author(s): Richard B. Freeman | Peter Boxall | Peter Haynes • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralThis book brings together research in the United States, Canada, the United Kin...

• Author(s): Gordon F. Bloom • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis timely resources appears during a period when rising food prices are a subject of public concern and the entire food distribution...

• Author(s): Virginia Doellgast • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementThe shift from manufacturing- to service-based economies has often been accompanied by the expansion of low-wage and insecure empl...

• Author(s): Thomas D. Beamish • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)In the Guadalupe Dunes, 170 miles north of Los Angeles and 250 miles south of San Francisco, a...

• Author(s): Leslie Black • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Construction - GeneralA comphensive guide to information sources relevant to the building industry and legislation affecting it. It is designed fo...

• Author(s): Bruce D. Epperson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cycling - General This economic and technical history of the early American bicycle industry focuses on the crucial period f...

• Author(s): Lawrence Mishel • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsFrom reviews of previous editions--"The State of Working America remains unrivaled as the most-trusted source for a compre...

• Author(s): Carliss Y. Baldwin | Kim B. Clark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralWe live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In man...

• Author(s): Jennifer Jihye Chun • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsThe realities of globalization have produced a surprising reversal in the focus and strategies of labor movements arou...

• Author(s): Leonard Joel Kirsch • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralDuring the past fifteen years, a unique wage structure emphasizing consistency and equity has developed in t...

• Author(s): Bill Mesce • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism There are two ages in the history of television: before HBO and after HBO. Before the launch o...

• Author(s): William J. Phalen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that "without cotton, you have no modern industry." Ind...

• Author(s): Amber L. Davisson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. Thi...

• Author(s): Sidney W. Mintz • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Modern - GeneralA fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening...

• Author(s): Jeff Horn | Leonard N. Rosenband | Merritt Roe Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryClosely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of e...

• Author(s): Michael Z. Newman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicThe cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over ...

• Author(s): Robert L. Mott • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - General During the "golden age" of live radio and television, writers, performers, and producers created their pro...

• Author(s): Michel M. Benarie • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralThis book brings together the methods, models and formulae used for estimating air pollution concentrations in urban areas. From ...

• Author(s): David Meuel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women--w...

• Author(s): Ralph E. Gomory | William J. Baumol • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralRalph Gomory and William Baumol adapt classical trade models to the modern world economy. In this boo...

• Author(s): Maureen Stanton • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - AmericanaWhether it's Antiques Roadshow or American Pickers, or any of the number of TV shows on fl...

• Author(s): Thierry Poibeau • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language ProcessingA concise, nontechnical overview of the develo...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): W. Bruce Bowlus • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General The availability of inexpensive steel, so crucial to the United States' emergence as a leading industr...

• Author(s): Ergin Bulut • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsA Precarious Game is an ethnographic examination of video game production. The developers that Ergin Bulut researched for almo...

• Author(s): Jon Ronson • Publisher: Riverhead Books • Publisher Imprint: Riverhead Books • BISAC: HistoryIn this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who stu...

• Author(s): Didier Fassin | Mariella Pandolfi • Publisher: Zone Books • Publisher Imprint: Zone Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Security (National & International)About the Book From natural disaster areas to zones of ...

• Author(s): Benjamin H. D. Buchloh • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyThe first full-scale monographic study in English of one of the most important artists of the second half of the t...