Download or read book Middle America in Business written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Business Groups and Transnational Capitalism in Central America written by Benedicte Bull and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Central America's political economy seen through the lens of its powerful business groups. It provides unique insight into their strategies when confronted with a globalized economy, their impact on development of the isthmus, and how they shape the political and economic institutions governing local varieties of capitalism.
Download or read book The Business of Empire written by Jason M. Colby and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.
Download or read book Trouble in the Middle written by Steven Paul Feldman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help readers better understand the ethical and cultural assumptions that both American and Chinese business cultures bring to business relationships. Based on historical context, theory, and a research-based comparison of how American and Chinese executives perceive the ethical and cultural aspects of doing business, it analyzes the relationships developed between the two cultures. Overall, Feldman's research and conceptualization of this cultural interaction will prove useful to all those who wish to expertly navigate the Chinese-American business relationship.
Download or read book The Forgotten Americans written by Isabel Sawhill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sobering account of a disenfranchised American working class and important policy solutions to the nation's economic inequalities One of the country's leading scholars on economics and social policy, Isabel Sawhill addresses the enormous divisions in American society--economic, cultural, and political--and what might be done to bridge them. Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. And yet both have a role to play in improving the country for all. Sawhill argues for a policy agenda based on mainstream values, such as family, education, and work. Although many have lost faith in government programs designed to help them, there are still trusted institutions on both the local and the federal level that can deliver better job opportunities and higher wages to those who have been left behind. At the same time, the private sector needs to reexamine how it trains and rewards employees. This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
Download or read book The Business of Empire written by Jason M. Colby and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources in the United States, Great Britain, Costa Rica, and Guatemala, Colby combines "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches to provide new insight into the role of transnational capital, labor migration, and racial nationalism in shaping U.S. expansion into Central America and the greater Caribbean. The Business of Empire places corporate power and local context at the heart of U.S. imperial history. In the early twentieth century, U.S. influence in Central America came primarily in the form of private enterprise, above all United Fruit. Founded amid the U.S. leap into overseas empire, the company initially depended upon British West Indian laborers. When its black workforce resisted white American authority, the firm adopted a strategy of labor division by recruiting Hispanic migrants. This labor system drew the company into increased conflict with its host nations, as Central American nationalists denounced not only U.S. military interventions in the region but also American employment of black immigrants. By the 1930s, just as Washington renounced military intervention in Latin America, United Fruit pursued its own Good Neighbor Policy, which brought a reduction in its corporate colonial power and a ban on the hiring of black immigrants. The end of the company's system of labor division in turn pointed the way to the transformation of United Fruit as well as the broader U.S. empire.
Download or read book Cultures of Commerce written by E. Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While historians have explored the impact on workers of changes in American business, the broader impact on other cultural forms, and vice versa, has not been widely studied. This anthology contributes to the debate at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material to visual culture to literature.
Download or read book Middle America and the United States written by United Fruit Company. Middle America Information Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Small Business in America written by Mansel G. Blackford and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2003-11-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the colonial era to the present day, small businesses have been an integral part of American life. First published in 1991 and now thoroughly revised and updated, A History of Small Business in America explores the central but ever-changing role played by small enterprises in the nation's economic, political, and cultural development. Examining small businesses in manufacturing, sales, services, and farming, Mansel Blackford argues that while small firms have always been important to the nation's development, their significance has varied considerably in different time periods and in different segments of our economy. Throughout, he relates small business development to changes in America's overall business and economic systems and offers comparisons between the growth of small business in the United States to its development in other countries. He places special emphasis on the importance of small business development for women and minorities. Unique in its breadth, this book provides the only comprehensive overview of these significant topics.
Download or read book Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc Celebrates Its Silver Anniversary and in Cooperation with the Kansas City Star Establishes the Business Leader Hall of Fame written by Junior Achievement of Middle America and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everybody s Business written by Milton Moskowitz and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everybody's Business: An Almanac compiled, evaluates, and puts at your fingertips a wealth of information about the major corporations that shape the lives of all Americans...In understandable, nontechnical language, this in-depth almanac encapsulates the history of each corporation and reviews the present-day, innermost working of each. Everybodu's business provides: sales and profits; rankings; numbers of employees and main employment centers; services and products offered; brand names used; sales and marketing strategies; important holdings (including property and subsidiaries); reputation (how outsiders feel about the company); who actually owns and runs the company; the presence -- or absence -- of minorities or women on the boards of directors; past history and likely directions for the future; in the public eye (from lawsuits to charitable contributions); stock performance; address and phone number of main office. Interspersed with company profiles are numerous short articles and fillers that give inside information on the business world....Of unique value is the only published index to link all the major brand names with the companies that produce them....Everybody's Business is the one eye-opening and indispensable guide to the people, products, and profits of corporate America" --
Download or read book The Changing Image of the United Fruit Company in Middle America 1899 1968 written by Darrell Erville Levi and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Export Agriculture and the Crisis in Central America written by Robert G. Williams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. Williams shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes of the export boom and who benefited from it, and shows the impact of the boom on land use, the ecology, and the conditions of life in the rural areas.
Download or read book Revolution In Central America written by Stanford Central America Action Network and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central America, though affected for decades by profound socioeconomic transformations, has been more or less quiescent politically. The sudden eruption of revolutionary turmoil in the region, as seen in recent events in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, has shattered the political status quo and cast Central America into the U.S. foreign poli
Download or read book In the Know in Mexico Central America written by Jennifer Phillips and published by Living Language. This book was released on 2003-04-15 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be IN THE KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Doing business across borders is very different from doing business across town–subtle and not-so-subtle differences in attitudes and etiquette play a big role. Did you know? • Flowers are so inexpensive and plentiful in Mexico & Central America that they’re considered to be too cheap to give as a gift. • Be patient, and don’t rush into discussing business. You can ruin a business deal if you don’t spend time on small talk. • A lot of Mexicans and Central Americans hate to deliver bad news; they are more likely to tell you what you want to hear In the Know in Mexico & Central America helps you: • Fit right in by understanding local manners, etiquette, and behaviors • Navigate through everyday life with tips for the whole family • Get an insider’s perspective on the social and business environment The book includes a FREE 60-minute CD with the key phrases you need to make a great impression. From the Package edition.
Download or read book The American Heritage History of American Business Industry written by Alex Groner and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and text survey the men, inventions, technological advances and political and financial policies which have influenced the growth of free enterprise in America.
Download or read book Investment in Central America written by United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce. American Republics Division and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
