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  • Manufacturing in the New Urban Economy

    by Willem van Winden, Leo van den Berg, Luis Carvalho, Erwin van Tuijl ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacotruing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown as many manufacturing firms have closed or moved to lower-cost locations. The process of deindustrialization is often seen as part of the inevitable shift towards a knowledge based economy and urban economies come to rely on research and development, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Delivering Sustainable Competitiveness

    Revisiting the organising capacity of cities

    Edited by Luís Carvalho, Leo van den Berg, Hazem Galal, Peter Teunisse ...
    Series series EURICUR Series (European Institute for Comparative Urban Research)
    Global trends such as climate change, digitalisation, enhanced concepts of democracy and the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis are changing the playing field of cities across the world. Urban development objectives are shifting away from being purely concerned with wealth creation and competitiveness, to increasingly combining social and environmental dimensions. In this context, how can ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Machining for Hobbyists

    Getting Started

    by Karl Moltrecht ...
    Machining for Hobbyists is for do-it-yourselfers and hobbyists who want to set up or expand a small machine shop in their garage, basement, shed or perhaps in a rented space. With their own shop, hobbyists can build models and undertake other building and maintenance projects that involve using different metals. Working in metal requires skills, knowledge, and equipment that are unlike other ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Building the Skyline

    The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers

    by Jason M. Barr ...
    The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles the economic history of the Manhattan skyline. In the process, he debunks some widely held ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Machine Shop Trade Secrets

    Second Edition

    by James Harvey ...
    Written by an experienced machinist and plastic injection mold maker, this groundbreaking manual will have users thinking and producing like experienced machinists. Machine Shop Trade Secrets provides practical “how-to” information that can immediately be put to use to improve ones machining skills, craftsmanship, and productivity. It is sure to be used and referred to time and again.Users will ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Men, Wage Work and Family

    Edited by Paula McDonald, Emma Jeanes ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    In the last two decades there has been a plethora of research on a range of subjects collectively and rhetorically known as ‘work-life balance’. The bulk of this research, which spans disciplines including feminist sociology, industrial relations and management, has focused on the significant concerns of employed women and/or dual career couples. Less attention has been devoted to scholarship ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Economics of the Indian Steel Industry

    by Susmita Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry
    Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world. This supply glut is reducing margins and turning steel into a sunset industry. Steel consumes as much as four times the amount of raw materials as its produced volume, and the sheer bulk of the steel makes it costly to transport. Because of this, countries ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Economic Integration and the Location of Industries

    The Case of Less Developed East Asian Countries

    by I. Kuroiwa ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    A comprehensive picture of the effects of economic integration on industry location in less developed East Asia - particularly in Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar - who pursued trade liberalization and economic integration after the 1990s. Studies include detailed empirical analyses of regional industry locations as well as country overviews. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cluster-Based Industrial Development

    A Comparative Study of Asia and Africa

    by T. Sonobe, K. Otsuka ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the upgrading of clusters. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Beyond Market and Hierarchy

    Patriotic Capitalism and the Jiuda Salt Refinery, 1914-1953

    by K. Man-Bun ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Based on extensive archival research, Beyond Market and Hierarchy reconstructs how Fan waged modern China's war of salts. Led by his Jiuda Salt Industries, the nascent refined salt industry battled revenue farmers who, as a group, monopolized the production and distribution of evaporated salt. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Local Clusters in Global Value Chains

    Linking Actors and Territories Through Manufacturing and Innovation

    Edited by Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Gary Gereffi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The international fragmentation of economic activities – from research and design to production and marketing – described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters. The consolidation of GVCs ruled by global lead firms and the recession of 2008-09 exacerbated the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Hybrid Factories in Latin America

    Japanese Management Transferred

    by Katsuo Yamazaki, Tetsuo Abo, JuhnWooseok Juhn ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Explores the Latin American economy and management through the study of Japanese companies in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Based on detailed case studies, this volume offers a bird's eye view of foreign investments in Latin America. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD