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Japanese Manufacturing Investment in Europeby Roger Strange
Routledge 1993; US$ 230.00A stimulating discussion of the causes and consequences of the growth of Japanese manufacturing investment in Europe, looking at 14 industrial sectors and using 27 case studies more...
Evaluation of Energy Useby Watt Committee on Energy Publications
Spon Press 1979; US$ 210.00Report number 6 of the Evaluation of Energy Use in Great Britian more...
Market and Society in Koreaby Dennis McNamara
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 195.00The first comprehensive review of the past and present of a leading sector, the volume offers a new interpretation of society and market in South Korea. more...
Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialisingby Janet Hunter
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 39.95From the 1870s to the 1930s the textile industry was Japan's largest manufacturing industry and it had a predominantly female labour force. This book examines the institutions of the labour market during this period of economic development. more...
World Businessby The Staff of the Wall Street Journal
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 8.99Several times a year, The Wall Street Journal publishes Special Reports on the subject of World Business . This ongoing feature is one of the most popular in both the print and interactive versions of the Journal . Here, in World Business , is the very best of the best Special Reports: Stories of. countries trying to lure foreign businesses, of businesses trying to lure foreign workers, of workers seeking opportunities in foreign countries. Here is the story of the race to find -- or develop -- the world's next Silicon Valley: Will it be Dublin, Ireland; Beijing, China; Hyderabad, India; Campinas, Brazil; or Paris, France? Here, also, are the stories of the Viet Kieu (Vietnamese living abroad) who are drawn back to their homeland to... more...
Structural Macroeconomic Change and the Size Pattern of Manufacturing Firmsby Fabrizio Trau
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 130.00The crisis of the so-called Golden Age regime has been paralleled since the late 1960s by an increasing importance of market exchanges as opposed to vertically integrated manufacturing activity, leading to major changes in the size structure of firms. These changes have generally taken the form of an employment shift towards low-scale firms, lower average size and a higher number of manufacturing units. This book tries to explain on theoretical grounds the reasons for such important discontinuity. more...
Fundamentals of Spun Yarn Technologyby Carl A. Lawrence
CRC Press 2003; US$ 239.95Existing textbooks covering the subject of yarn manufacture deal either with one of the process stages, e.g. cotton carding or open-end spinning, or they present the subject at only the introductory level. Written by a well-known and respected authority on textile technology, this book presents complete coverage of yarn manufacture and technology. It not only introduces the subject, but it provides the reader with an advanced understanding of the various process stages. more...
RE-Engineering the Manufacturing Systemby Robert E. Stein
Marcel Dekker Inc 2003; US$ 94.95The second edition of this text offers straightforward instructions for designing, installing and operating manufacturing information systems. It clarifies the often blurred concepts of synchronization and optimization and offers implementation advice from four discrete angles for better results. more...
Meet You in Hellby Les Standiford
Crown 2005; US$ 11.99Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry—Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. Author Les Standiford begins at the bitter end, when the dying Carnegie proposes a final meeting after two decades of separation, probably to ease his conscience. Frick’s reply: “Tell him that I’ll meet him in hell.” It is a fitting epitaph. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, a time when Horatio Alger preached the gospel of upward mobility and expansionism went hand in hand with optimism, Meet You in Hell is a classic tale of two men who embodied the... more...
Making Sweatshopsby Ellen Israel Rosen
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95The only comprehensive historical analysis of the globalization of the U.S. apparel industry, this book focuses on the reemergence of sweatshops in the United States and the growth of new ones abroad. Ellen Israel Rosen, who has spent more than a decade investigating the problems of America's domestic apparel workers, now probes the shifts in trade policy and global economics that have spawned momentous changes in the international apparel and textile trade. Making Sweatshops asks whether the process of globalization can be promoted in ways that blend industrialization and economic development in both poor and rich countries with concerns for social and economic justice?especially for the women who toil in the industry's low-wage sites around... more...