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Family and business during the Industrial Revolution
Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet, despite their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms and the people who ran them, fo…
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- First edition.
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- 9780198786023
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- viii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- 338.09034 BAR f
Promoting active citizenship : markets and choice in Scandinavian welfare
This book analyses the considerable variation in the shares of private provision for core services in education, health and social services, in the Scandinavian countries. The chapters compare countries, service areas, and the for-profit, non-profit and public sectors. Each focuses on different levels of change: the mix of welfare providers, national laws and regulations, governance in munic…
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- 9783319553818
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- xiv, 325p. : ill.
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- 305 PRO p
Grassroots politics and oil culture in Venezuela : the revolutionary petro-state
This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular poli…
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- 9783319595078
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- xxi, 357p. : ill.
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- 987.0642 STR g
Digital peripheries : the online circulation of audiovisual content from the …
This is an open access book. Media industry research and EU policymaking are predominantly tailored to large (and, in the latter case, Western) European markets. This open access book addresses the specific qualities of smaller media markets, highlighting their vulnerability to global digital competition and outlining survival strategies for them. New online distribution models and new trends i…
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- 9783030448509
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- XI, 302 p.
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- Springer Series in Media Industries
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- 302.231 DIG d
Creative business in Australia : learnings from the creative industries innov…
As the largest ever Australian government investment in creative industries development, the Creative Industries Innovation Centre delivered tailored business services to more than 1500 creative businesses from 2009 to 2015 and provided industry intelligence and advice for public policy and peak sectoral activity. This collection gives an overview of the current ‘state of business’ in Austr…
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- 9780992451820
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- 260 p.
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- 338.477 CRE c
Designing sustainable energy for all : sustainable product-service system des…
This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in low- and middle-income contexts.Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low-income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity.Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approach to address this challenge and pro…
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- 9783319702230
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- xxxii, 208p. : ill.
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- 621.042 DES d
Safety cultures, safety models : taking stock and moving forward
The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carr…
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- 9783319951294
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- viii, 166p. : ill.
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- 363.11 SAF s
Precarious creativity : global media, local labor
Precarious Creativity examines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This pathbreaking anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges workers face. The authors take on crucial issues and provide insightful case studies of workplace dynamics regardi…
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- 9780520964808
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- X, 324 p.
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- 331.76130223 SAN p
Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations
This Brief presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts. “Community-oriented policing” is an approach that encourages police to develop and maintain personal relationships with citizens and community organizations. By developing these partnerships, the goal is to enhance trust and legitimacy of police by the commun…
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- 9783319892948
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- xiii, 131p. : ill.
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- 363.23 COM c
Applying the Kaizen in Africa : a new avenue for industrial development
At present, how to develop industries is a burning issue in Africa, where population growth remains high and economic development has thus far failed to provide sufficient jobs for many, especially young people and women. The creation of productive jobs through industrial development ought to be a central issue in steering economic activity across the continent. The authors of this book, con…
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- 9783319914008
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- xx, 266p. : ill.
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- 338.6 APP a
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