... that underpin transformative policies to improve technological, coordination and collective capabilities in the economic system. New institutional economics Political settlements National Innovation Systems Broad-based industrialism Industrial policy A theoretical model consists of certain hypotheses...

... based on US cities, recent European research also reports divergent processes. The aim of this article is to examine the degree of divergence across UK cities and to analyse how far this has been driven by differences among cities in industrial structure and specialisation, tradable bases...

...This chapter maps the urban shift from post-industrialism to a postmetropolis—a process marked by both objective changes and subjective perceptions, in which the physical disappearance of lived spaces and places of memory does not necessarily entail their immediate forgetting. Urban documentary...

... their stories within the larger context of the deindustrialization of Muncie and the rise of a post-industrial society. It uses discourse analysis to describe how racial prejudice, social marginalization, and religious difference have affected the lives of immigrant working professionals and are embedded...

..., ideological) underpinning the “modern” nation. Prominent nodes challenge stereotypes of the region as out of sync temporally, spatially, and structurally with the “progressive” nation: the city, the factory, and the suburbs. These spaces reflect the ideation of the United States as a nexus of urban-industrial...

...Figure 1.1 The Lowell Offering (December, 1845). This article suggests that historians in the United States have ignored the aural history of early industrialization. It suggests that the transition to industrialism has been misleadingly slipped into a binary understanding, which makes...

...Globalisation compelled the UK economy into a phase of rapid restructuring, turning away from the old industries in manufacturing and mining and towards a knowledge economy based around services. This new work replaced mainly male full-time jobs with part-time female work. This reconfiguration...

...This chapter examines American radicalism by focusing on three American utopians of the latter nineteenth century who dramatized the evils of corporate industrialism in bestselling books: Henry George, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and Edward Bellamy. It looks at the panaceas they proposed—George's single...

...This chapter argues that the meaning of craft in twenty-first century America has been shaped by the transition from a preindustrial to a post-industrial society. Craft has been culturally located in traditions as a naturalistic sign of social belonging and a commentary on mechanical displacement...

...This chapter demonstrates how the ideology and mechanisms of convict labor and New South industrialism were built across state lines, with newspapers as a critical tool. Arthur S. Colyar was to Tennessee who Henry Grady was to Georgia: a leading proponent of New South ideology, political power...

...This chapter explores the meaning of industrialism. It considers some of the consequences which follow when industrialism is defined as ‘science-based technical progress embodied in physical equipment’. It discusses industrialism in relation to science-based technology, economies of scale, land...

...This essay explores the place of the West in American historiography and, in particular, how the discourses of the West as Garden and the West as Desert provide one of the key binary oppositions within the Western genre. The Garden/Desert binary is itself in binary opposition to, the Industrialism...

... relationships, social trust and the transformation of inner life. Rossetti William Michael Shields Frederic activist vision Brown Ford Madox Carlyle Thomas Cromwell Oliver industrialisation Industrial Revolution Morris William Noble Matthew Ruskin John social activist aesthetic sovereignty Toryism...

...Speculating about expressions of capitalism that emerged in Western Europe, this chapter will explore the nature and impact of overseas expansion from the North Atlantic world, assessing connexions between different forms of colonialism and types of industrial growth. It offers a stylised...

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...We explore the science of mass extinction, link it to industrial civilization, use the concept of the banality of evil to explain the ethical situation, and then explain the various ways in which mass extinction poses further ethical problems within that situation, especially of environmental...

..., for besides the land itself being very fat and black, and being very well watered by the rivulets and springs and rivers, I found prunes like those of Spain and nuts and very good sweet grapes and mulberries. . . . Aborigines Climate Democritus Energy Fire Great Britain Industrialism Lucretius Plato...

...This chapter details the history of the Republican Party from 1877–1893. During this period, the underlying political issue for both Republicans and Democrats was how best to spur the growth of the industrial sector while addressing the plight of farmers, workers, and small business. The Democrats...

...The final chapter of The Future of Consumer Society returns to a broadly historical perspective of sequential transition from agrarianism to industrialism to consumerism and considers longer-term processes both in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The intention...

... Shavitt Y social stratification absolute mobility CASMIN educational categories Goldthorpe class schema liberal theory of industrialism social fluidity social mobility The study of social mobility is concerned with the description and analysis of the trajectories of social position that individuals...