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): Gregory W. Noble • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralAs one Asian economic crisis follows another, sending shock waves through the global marke...

• 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): David Walsh • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - GeneralDavid Walsh examines the historically insular unions in the airline industry, where the need for cooperation has bee...

• Author(s): John Bezis-Selfa • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary WarStacks of stone preside over many bucolic and wooded landscapes in the mid-Atlantic states...

• 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): Darryl Holter • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Industries - General

• Author(s): Sjoerd Beugelsdijk | Steven Brakman | Hans van van Ees • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Industries - GeneralAbout the Book Essays by leading scholars suggest that insights from inter...

• 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): Gary N. Chaison | Barbara Bigelow • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsLegitimacy is vital to unions. Without it, they lose political and ideolog...

• 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): Alexander Klose • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Industrial Design - PackagingA cultural history of the shipping container as a crucible of globalization and a cultural paradigm.We live in a worl...

• 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): John B. Thompson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Publishers & Publishing IndustryThese are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices...

• Author(s): Thomas Princen | Jack P. Manno | Pamela L. Martin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)A provocative call for delegitimizing fossil fuels rather than...

• Author(s): John Davies • Publisher: MIXIUK • Publisher Imprint: MIXIUK • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralStretching from the Ice Ages to the present day, this masterful account traces the political, social and cultural...

• Author(s): Jack Glazier • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralIn the early twentieth century, the population of New York City's Lower East Side swelled with the arrival of v...

• Author(s): Wally Seccombe • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: GeneralHow do changes in family form relate to changes in society as a whole? In a work which combines theoretical rigour with historical scope, Wally Seccombe pro...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): Gregory Pappas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Labor - GeneralThirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas h...

• Author(s): Kelly Sims Gallagher • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the glob...

• 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...