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Author | : Thomas K. McCraw |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 764 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674175563 |
This memorial release takes a look back at the life and career of legendary American soul and R&B vocalist and pop star Whitney Houston, whose powerful vocals and larger than life image made her an icon, before her life short with her unexpected death in 2012 at the age f 48. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
Author | : Roger L. Janelli |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1995-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804766355 |
This pathbreaking work extends the boundaries of contemporary anthropological research by presenting in one cohesive, meticulously researched work: an original theoretical perspective on the relationships between the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of a large modern business organization; the first anthropological work on South Korean management and its white-collar workers, in a case study of one of South Korea's "big four" conglomerates; and an innovative delineation of how modern business practices are enmeshed in past and present, structure and agency, and local and international systems." "Based largely on the author's nine months of participant-observation in the offices of one of South Korea's largest conglomerates (with annual sales of about $15 billion and approximately 80,000 employees), the book is also enriched by the author's previous fieldwork in rural Korea, where many of the conglomerate's white-collar personnel spent their formative years. These vantage points are used to explore constructions of "traditional" Korean culture and transformations of cultural knowledge prompted by new political-economic conditions, and how both inform practices prevailing in the large conglomerates - and ultimately shape South Korea's capitalism." "The work focuses on South Korea's new middle class. It explains how office workers' identities and often contradictory interests present them with choices between alternative interpretations and actions affecting both themselves and their conglomerates. Much attention is paid to ideological and more coercive means of controlling white-collar employees, to subordinates' strategies of resistance, and to ways in which cultural understandings and moral claims inform the assessment and pursuit of material advantage.
Author | : Leo Panitch |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1844677427 |
Author | : John Tutino |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2011-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822349892 |
This history of the political economy, social relations, and cultural debates that animated Spanish North America from 1500 until 1800 illuminates its centuries of capitalist dynamism and subsequent collapse into revolution.
Author | : Donald Wayne Rogers |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0252034821 |
Workplaces in the United States are safer today than they were a hundred and twenty years ago. In this book, Donald W. Rogers attributes this improvement partly to the development in the Progressive Era of surprisingly strong state-level work safety and health regulatory agencies, a patchwork of commissions and labor departments that advanced safety law from common-law negligence to the modern system of administrative regulation. Rogers examines the Wisconsin Industrial Commission and compares it to arrangements in Ohio, California, New York, Illinois, and Alabama. Connecting this history to the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1970, Making Capitalism Safe will revise historical understandings of state regulation, compensation insurance, and labor law politics--issues that remain pressing in our time.
Author | : Anders Åslund |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | : 9780521805254 |
Author | : Antony Loewenstein |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1784781177 |
Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism. He discovers how companies cash in on organized misery in a hidden world of privatized detention centers, militarized private security, aid profiteering, and destructive mining. What emerges through Loewenstein's reporting is a dark history of multinational corporations that, with the aid of media and political elites, have grown more powerful than national governments. In the twenty-first century, the vulnerable have become the world's most valuable commodity.
Author | : Paul Hawken |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2007-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0316031534 |
There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold worldwide, they have set the agenda for rational, ecologically sound industrial development. In this inspiring book they define a superior & sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically raises the productivity of nature's dwindling resources. Natural Capitalism shows how cutting-edge businesses are increasing their earnings, boosting growth, reducing costs, enhancing competitiveness, & restoring the earth by harnessing a new design mentality. The authors offer dozens of examples of businesses that are making fourfold or even tenfold gains in efficiency, from self-heating & self-cooling buildings to 200-miles-per-gallon cars, while ensuring that workers aren't downsized out of their jobs. This practical blueprint shows how making resources more productive will create the next industrial revolution
Author | : Gil Eyal |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781859843123 |
Explores class formation and elite struggles in post-communist Central Europe.
Author | : Linda Clarke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136599533 |
First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour force. The quality of the labour process determines the development of production. Changes to the built environment reflect changes in the production process and, in particular, the development of wage labour. To support these arguments, the author identifies a qualitatively new historical stage of capitalist building production involving a significant expansion of wage labour, and hence capital, and the transition from artisan to industrial production. Linda Clarke draws from a wide range of original material relating to the development of London from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century to provide a complete description of the development process: materials extraction, roadbuilding, housebuilding, paving, cleansing, etc; profiles of builders and contractors involved, and a picture of the new working class communities, as in Somers Town – their living conditions, population, working environment, and politics.