Download or read book Shopkeeping written by Peter Miller and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. For more than four decades, Peter Miller has run a design bookshop that shares his name in Seattle. He has also written three of his own books, manuals about cooking and about food and about eating together. In Shopkeeping, Miller writes for the first time about his other love: shopkeeping. “There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailer—not by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop.” [from the Introduction] Over ten chapters, Miller crafts stories from the bookshop floor with wry humor and skillful storytelling. Readers will laugh out loud as they come to understand along the way that small shops characterize our towns and cities, making them unique, special, and worth visiting and living near. An essay collection for book and bookshop lovers, small business owners, and Seattle natives, transplants, and visitors, Shopkeeping captures the art and heart of running a local shop cherished by the community that surrounds it.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan 1886 1922 written by Jonathan Morris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-1880s a shopkeeper movement developed in Milan, centred around a shopkeeper newspaper, a federation of shopkeeper trade associations, and a shopkeeper bank. In 1904 shopkeeper representatives initiated a sequence of events that led to the fall of the first radical-socialist administration within the city. The author explains these events with reference to the business of shopkeeping itself. He analyses the trades, techniques, tax structure and topography of the Milanese retail sector, and traces the history of the contest between shops and cooperatives and the shopkeeper's changing relationship with his employees and with his clientele. The final chapter confronts the crucial question of why the Milanese shopkeepers were to be found on the political right in the years leading up to the Fascist takeover. This is the first book to deal with any aspect of the Italian petite bourgeoisie.
Download or read book Merchants and Shopkeepers written by P. H. Gulliver and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Thomastown, Ireland, exploring the town's 800-year history of commerce and focusing on merchants and shopkeepers during the last 200 years. It describes the entrepreneurial strategies of shopkeepers and the persistence or decline of family businesses, with discussions on dependency models, ideas of modernization, class structure, and the socio-economics of small businesses. Of interest to anthropologists and students. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Reports of Proceedings Before the Boards of Conciliation and the Court of Arbitration written by Western Australia. Court of Arbitration and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Proceedings Before the Court of Arbitration written by Western Australia. Court of Arbitration and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sugar and Spice written by Jon Stobart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one that incorporated a range of novel foods (tobacco, chocolate, coffee, and tea) and new supplies of more established commodities, including sugar, spices, and dried fruits. Much has been written about the attraction of these goods, which went from being novelties or expensive luxuries in the mid-seventeenth century to central elements of the British diet a century or so later. They have been linked to the rise of Britain as a commercial and imperial power, whilst their consumption is seen as transforming many aspects of British society and culture, from mealtimes to gender identity. Despite this huge significance to ideas of consumer change, we know remarkably little about the everyday processes through which groceries were sold, bought, and consumed. In tracing the lines of supply that carried groceries from merchants to consumers, Sugar and Spice reveals how changes in retailing and shopping were central to the broader transformation of consumption and consumer practices, but also questions established ideas about the motivations underpinning consumer choices. It demonstrates the dynamic nature of eighteenth-century retailing; the importance of advertisements in promoting sales and shaping consumer perceptions, and the role of groceries in making shopping an everyday activity. At the same time, it shows how both retailers and their customers were influenced by the practicalities and pleasures of consumption. They were active agents in consumer change, shaping their own practices rather than caught up in a single socially-inclusive cultural project such as politeness or respectability.
Download or read book Ten Years of Gentleman Farming at Blennerhasset with co operative objects By W Lawson C D Hunter and others Edited by C D Hunter written by William LAWSON (of Blennerhasset, Cumberland.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Years of Gentleman Farming at Blennerhasset written by William Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Years of Gentleman Farming at Blennerhasset with Co operative Objects written by William Lawson (of Blennerhasset.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shopkeep written by Zachery Miller and published by Zachery Miller. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cindy and Rachel break into a creepy old antiques and oddities shop. They’re just there for a steal and a quick buck, but what they don’t realize is that they’ve come for a whole different reason: the Devil’s Shopkeep awaits.
Download or read book A Nation of Shopkeepers written by Dan Evans and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the unstoppable rise of the petite-bourgeoisie, one of the most powerful, but underexplored, classes in modern society. The petite-bourgeoisie — the insecure class between the working class and the bourgeoisie — is hugely significant within global politics. Yet it remains something of a mystery. Initially identified as a powerful political force by theorists like Marx and Poulantzas, the petit-bourgeoisie was expected to decline, as small businesses and small property were gradually swallowed up by monopoly capitalism. Yet, far from disappearing, structural changes to the global economy under neoliberalism have instead grown the petite-bourgeoisie, and the individualist values associated with it have been popularized by a society which fetishizes "aspiration", home ownership and entrepreneurship. So why has this happened? A Nation of Shopkeepers sheds a light on this mysterious class, exploring the class structure of contemporary Britain and the growth of the petite-bourgeoisie following Thatcherism. It shows how the rise of home ownership, small landlordism and radical changes to the world of work have increasingly inculcated values of petite-bourgeois individualism; how popular culture has promoted and reproduced values of aspiration and conspicuous consumption that militate against socialist organizing; and, most importantly, what the unstoppable rise of the petit-bourgeoisie means for the left.
Download or read book Wealth and Poverty considered written by Patrick BARRY (Author of “Dockyard Economy, ” etc.) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wealth and Poverty Considered written by Patrick Barry and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Back to the Shops written by Rachel Bowlby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back to the Shops offers a set of short and surprising chapters, each one a window into a different shop type or mode of selling. Old shopping streets are seen from new angles; fast fashion shows up in eighteenth-century edits. Here are pedlars and pop-ups, mail order catalogues and mobile greengrocers' shops. Here too are food markets open till late on a Saturday night, and tiny subscription libraries tucked away at the back of the sweet shop. Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and in our everyday lives. They are essential sources of daily provisions, but they are also the visible evidence of consuming excess. They are local community hubs and they are dreamlands of distraction. Shops are inherently spaces of imagination as well as of practicality. They belong with their own surrounding streets and town; they bring back the times and places of our lives. They linger in stories of all kinds, whether far-fetched or round the corner. From butcher to baker and from markets to motor vans—after reading this book, you will want to go back to the shops.
Download or read book Summits of Success written by James Burnley and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Retailing Industry The coming of the mass market 1800 1945 written by John Benson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retail and Community written by George Campbell Gosling and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local and the global, between the late-nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries.
