Author: John F. Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000353400
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved. Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case-studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Author: David Higgins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315403641
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This book examines the decline of the cotton textiles industry, which defined Britain as an industrial nation, from its peak in the late nineteenth century to the state of the industry at the end of the twentieth century. Focusing on the owners and managers of cotton businesses, the authors examine how they mobilised financial resources; their attitudes to industry structure and technology; and their responses to the challenges posed by global markets. The origins of the problems which forced the industry into decline are not found in any apparent loss of competitiveness during the long nineteenth century but rather in the disastrous reflotation after the First World War. As a consequence of these speculations, rationalisation and restructuring became more difficult at the time when they were most needed, and government intervention led to a series of partial solutions to what became a process of protracted decline. In the post-1945 period, the authors show how government policy encouraged capital withdrawal rather than encouraging the investment needed for restructuring. The examples of corporate success since the Second World War – such as David Alliance and his Viyella Group – exploited government policy, access to capital markets, and closer relationships with retailers, but were ultimately unable to respond effectively to international competition and the challenges of globalisation. The chapters in this book were originally published in Business History and Accounting, Business and Financial History.
Author: John H. Veit Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367715885
Category : Cotton textile industry
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Capital ownership, capital structure and capital markets: financial constraints and decline in the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1880-1965 -- Quiet successes and loud failures: the UK textile industries in the interwar years -- The decline of the UK textile industry: the terminal years 1945-2003.
Author: John F. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429680457
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved. Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Author: John F. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429680465
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the editors address how the field of textile history has evolved. Themes covered include entrepreneurial, technological and labour history, whilst the book highlights the strategic and social consequences of innovations in the history of this key UK sector. Of interest to business and economic historians, this shortform book also provides analysis and illustrative case studies that will be valuable reading across the social sciences.
Author: United States. Foreign Agricultural Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Author: Sylvia Walby
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745668984
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The concept of 'patriarchy' is one which signals a sharp divide between traditions of feminist thought. Sylvia Walby attempts to conceptualize 'patriarchy' in a way that takes account not only of the complexity of relationships of gender, but also of the subtleties of the interconnections of patriarchy and capitalism. She rejects those accounts which treat patriarchy as a unified set of relations, or which confine the site of patriarchy to any one privileged sphere such as the family. Instead, she elaborates a novel view of patriarchy as a set of 'relatively autonomous relations', the connections between which are spelled out through a variety of detailed case studies. In contrast to many other views of 'capitalist patriarchy', Sylvia Walby characterizes the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy as a relationship, not of harmony and mutual accommodation, but of tension and conflict. This thesis is substantiated through a comparative historical analysis of three contrasting areas of employment: cotton textiles, engineering and clerical work. These analyses show the shortcomings of much conventional literature in sociology, history and economics on women's employment, which pays insufficient attention to the independence of patriarchal relations. The book draws upon sociological, historical, economic and geographic materials to argue for an understanding of gender relations in terms of the specific tensions and compromises between patriarchal and capitalist relations. Exploring the impact of the state on patterns of employment and unemployment completes a book rich in theoretical and empirical analysis. Patriarchy at Work will be recognized as a major contribution to feminist thought and the social sciences.
Author: G N Pandey
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
ISBN: 8125902929
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Pollution has become a worldwide phenomenon and so has become concern for its control. The alarming situation has awakened administrators, engineers, technocrats, governments and international organizations to take steps to curb pollution. Educational institutions now include in their curricula various aspects of pollution (its nature and dimensions, health hazards it has created, and measures of controlling and managing it, etc.). This book contains a core course in Environment Management. It will be useful to students of Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, Biochemical and other disciplines of Engineering and Technology.
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Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9780821346044
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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