Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Author: Mary L. Dudziak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019931585X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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"When is wartime? In common usage, it is a period of time in which a society is at war. But we now live in what President Obama has called 'an age without surrender ceremonies,' where the war on terror remains open-ended and presidents announce an end to conflict in Iraq, even as conflict on the ground persists. It is no longer easy to distinguish between wartime and peacetime. In this inventive meditation on war, time, and the law, Mary L. Dudziak argues that wartime is not a discrete or easily defined period of time. Indeed, America has been engaged in some form of ongoing overseas armed conflict for over a century. Yet policy makers and the American public continue to view wars as exceptional events that eventually give way to normal peace times--a conception that Dudziak believes has two significant consequences. First, because war is thought to be exceptional, 'wartime' remains a shorthand argument justifying extreme actions like torture and detention without trial. Second, ongoing warfare is enabled by the inattention of the American people. More disconnected than ever from the wars their nation is fighting, public disengagement leaves us without political restraints on the exercise of American war powers. Articulately exposing the disconnect between the way we imaging wartime and the practice of American wars, Dudziak illuminates the way the changing nature of American warfare undermines democratic accountability, yet makes democratic engagement all the more necessary."--Dust jacket.

Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 23

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1686

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index.

Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 2012

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Author: Colleen A. Dunlavy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509561722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 165

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We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods – from beds to batteries to printer paper – are available in a finite number of “standard sizes.” What makes these sizes “standard” is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms – often hotly competing firms – reach such collective agreements? In exploring this question, Colleen Dunlavy puts the history of mass production and distribution in an entirely new light. She reveals that, despite the widely publicized model offered by Henry Ford, mass production techniques did not naturally diffuse throughout the U.S. economy. On the contrary, formidable market forces blocked their diffusion. It was only under the cover of collectively agreed-upon, industrywide standard sizes – orchestrated by the federal government – that competing firms were able to break free of market forces and transition to mass production and distribution. Without government promotion of standard sizes, the twentieth-century American variety of capitalism would have looked markedly less “Fordist.” Small, Medium, Large will make all of us think differently about the everyday consumer choices we take for granted.

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1768

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Author: Stella Stewart
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Category : Price regulation
Languages : en
Pages : 14

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