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Extinction equilibrium
Generation Z has grown up with a global financial crisis, a pandemic, the climate emergency, growing autocracy and wars. Survival, not just equity, is at stake. As debate rages about how to ensure a fairer and sustainable society, this book challenges short-sighted economic policies, asking where...
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Inside thatcher’s monetarism experiment
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists: a policy based on t...
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Exploring trade union identities
The world of work has changed and so have trade unions with mergers, rebrandings and new unions being formed. The question is, how positioned are the unions to organize the unorganized? With more than three quarters of UK workers unrepresented and the growth of precarious employment and the gig ...
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Responsibility beyond growth
Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics, politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of 'responsible stagnation' as an ex...
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People, places and business cultures
Inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali, this collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history.This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentiet...
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Globalization and catching-up in transition economies
Globalization and post-communist transition are currently two of the most important economic issues. Kolodko considers the links between them, and the way forward for post-socialist economies.Kolodko, former finance minister of Poland, considers the links between issues of globalization and post-...
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The kenyan cut flower industry & global market dynamics
Investigates the production, trade and consumption of the bouquets sold in European supermarkets and the consequences of this for the globalised economy.From a macro-perspective, it appears that the cut flower industry has changed into a buyer-driven value chain with corporate retailers as the ne...
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The economics of ethnic conflict
Investigates development practice, civil organization formation and the increase of ethnically motivated conflicts over the past two decades in Western Africa.Through richly detailed anthropological case studies of the rural economics and administrative policies in Burkina Faso, and reassessment ...
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Tanzanian development
An up-to-date, comparative, examination of the developing economy of Tanzania and its grass roots progress out of poverty, with pointers to its wider implications for policymakers, NGOS and practitioners.Over the past thirty years, in common with a number of other Sub-Saharan African countries, T...
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The english east india company's silk enterprise in bengal, 1750-1850
This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal.This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the...
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The age of machinery
An engagingly written account of textile engineering in its key northern centres, rich with historical narrative and analysis.The engineers who built the first generations of modern textile machines, between 1770 and 1850, pushed at the boundaries of possibility. This book investigates these pion...
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Crises in economic and social history
Exploring how crises have shaped economic and social life from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first.This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historian...
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Trade and empire in early nineteenth-century southeast asia
Discusses the complexities of a trading network in this period, outling commodity chains, links between colonies and colonial centres, and tensions between local polities and competing empires.This book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of t...
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Meat matters
In this book, Watts examines why meat mattered to a growing number of Parisians and explores the political, economic and cultural matters of the meat trade in order to illuminate more fully the changing world of Old Regime Paris.In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, ...
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Globalization and sustainable development in africa
The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.Few studies of globalization have analyzed its impact on African societies from the viewpoint of sustainable development. This volume answers that need. The essays here contribute to ...
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Financing cotton
This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.The cotton and textile industry, at the centre of the industrial revolution, has long been a metaphor for t...
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Landlords and tenants in britain, 1440-1660
Provides for a new interpretation of the agrarian economy in late Tudor and early modern Britain.This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England betwe...
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Not just in time
How a tiny start-up slayed an industry giant before redefining the way workers are managed around the globe.This book recounts a success story rooted in one individual's desire to embrace his entrepreneurial spirit and forge his own company. Mark Ain led Kronos Incorporated from concept to the ba...
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Consumers and food: understanding and shaping consumer behaviour
This collection reviews the wealth of research in understanding consumer food-purchasing behaviour and what this means for farmers, food manufacturers, retailers and policy makers seeking to produce healthier food in a more sustainable way.
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Pesticides and agriculture
Pesticides have played a critical but sometimes controversial role in the development of agriculture. This book provides an authoritative account of the development of the modern pesticides industry in the context of broader developments in global agriculture.
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Arctic abstractive industry
Examining the processes at work in sites of industrial extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, this book looks at the displacements that conceal exploitation, on the one hand, and appropriations of value on the other.
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The brave new world of european labor
European union movements played a central role in promoting a "Europeanmodel of society", a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political representation which reached its pinnacle in the post-World War II era. The recent shift to low...
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Flexible capitalism
Explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. Introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary ec...
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