Download or read book Twirling Jennies written by Ruth Evans and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Industrial Revolution in the United States took hold in the 1820s with the founding of Lowell, Massachusetts, a city born of the textile industry. Twirling Jennies takes a look the social dances of that time and place, and of the following hundred years. Along the way, this heavily illustrated book touches on a wide range of topics including social mores, sexual harassment, architecture, immigration, pastimes, and more. The author has lifelong ties with textiles, dancing, and Lowell.
Download or read book Spinning and Weaving written by Lynn Huggins-Cooper and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the extensive history of the folkcraft, its presence in the modern world, and resources to help beginners enter the world of textile artistry. This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of spinning and weaving. The story begins in prehistory when people first wove yarns to create clothing and blankets. The book explores how spinning and weaving have continued to be important throughout human history (or should that be herstory), in artistic, economic, and functional terms. The second part of the book brings us up to date, via interviews with modern-day spinning and weaving artisans. These textiles artists generously allowed the author a window into their studios and discussed the way they use and adapt traditional methods, techniques, and tools for the twenty-first century. Photos of their work and their working environment offer a unique view into the world of this ancient craft. Finally, if you are inspired to try your hand at this fascinating art, the book also has a resources section. It includes a valuable list of suppliers of fiber, dyes, tools, and yarn, as well as information about training courses, useful websites, and more—everything you need to get started.
Download or read book The days of the spinning wheel in New England written by Henry Mason Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry and Lucy with Other Tales written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology in the Industrial Revolution written by Barbara Hahn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places the British Industrial Revolution in global context, providing a fresh perspective on the relationship between technology and society.
Download or read book Works written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender and Work in Capitalist Economies written by Pam Odih and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the industrial revolution through to more recent advances in information technology, radical changes in working practices have accelerated rates of production to previously unimaginable levels. The establishment of wage relations, in the second half of the 19th Century, precipitated the rise of the 'employment society' and a movement towards synchronized work. Industrialization epitomized the capitalist definition of work time. In Gender and Work in Capitalist Economies, Pamela Odih advances a politics of gender and time, exploring the sociological aspects of work. This book provides a dynamic intervention into Marxist analysis of time and capitalist accumulation, and looks at how in contemporary regimes this translates as the universal appropriation of women’s labour time. Pamela Odih reasons that it is a disconcerting fact of global manufacturing, that accelerated turnover gains have become increasingly dependent on the exploitation of a spatially disaggregated, feminized global assembly-line. The book explores: Industrial and post-industrial times as moments in a longer-term trend Manufacturing in the 24 hour economy Accelerated rates of disaggregated production Gender and Work in Capitalist Economies is key reading for students of gender studies, sociology, organizational analysis and economic history.
Download or read book The Industrial Revolution written by James L. Outman and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2003 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents insight into the thoughts and ideas of some of nineteenth-century important minds of the Industrial Revolution.
Download or read book Early Lessons written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VC written by Tom Nicholas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An incisive history of the venture-capital industry.” —New Yorker “An excellent and original economic history of venture capital.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “A detailed, fact-filled account of America’s most celebrated moneymen.” —New Republic “Extremely interesting, readable, and informative...Tom Nicholas tells you most everything you ever wanted to know about the history of venture capital, from the financing of the whaling industry to the present multibillion-dollar venture funds.” —Arthur Rock “In principle, venture capital is where the ordinarily conservative, cynical domain of big money touches dreamy, long-shot enterprise. In practice, it has become the distinguishing big-business engine of our time...[A] first-rate history.” —New Yorker VC tells the riveting story of how the venture capital industry arose from America’s longstanding identification with entrepreneurship and risk-taking. Whether the venture is a whaling voyage setting sail from New Bedford or the latest Silicon Valley startup, VC is a state of mind as much as a way of doing business, exemplified by an appetite for seeking extreme financial rewards, a tolerance for failure and experimentation, and a faith in the promise of innovation to generate new wealth. Tom Nicholas’s authoritative history takes us on a roller coaster of entrepreneurial successes and setbacks. It describes how iconic firms like Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia invested in Genentech and Apple even as it tells the larger story of VC’s birth and evolution, revealing along the way why venture capital is such a quintessentially American institution—one that has proven difficult to recreate elsewhere.
Download or read book The Weaver s Knot written by Tessie P. Liu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rosamond with Other Tales written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rosamond written by Maria Edgeworth and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arkwrights written by R. S. Fitton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Arkwright was born in Preston in 1732. He married Patience Holt in 1755 and had a son, Richard, in the same year. After Patience's death in 1756, he married Margaret Biggens in 1761. He passed away in 1792, and was buried at Smelting Mill Green, close to Cromford Bridge.
Download or read book London Quarterly and Holborn Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Profit and Prejudice written by Paul Donovan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoiding prejudice will be critical to economic success in the fourth industrial revolution. It is not the new and innovative technology that will matter in the next decade, but what we do with it. Using technology properly, with diverse decision making, is the difference between success and failure in a changing world. This will require putting the right person in the right job at the right time. Prejudice stops that happening. Profit and Prejudice takes us through the relationship between economic success and prejudice in labour markets. It starts with the major changes that occur in periods of economic upheaval. These changes tend to be unpopular and complex – and complexity encourages people to turn to the simplistic arguments of ‘scapegoat economics’ and prejudice. Some of the changes of the fourth industrial revolution will help fight prejudice, but some will make it far worse. The more prejudice there is, the harder it will be for companies and countries to profit from the changes ahead. Profit is not the main argument against prejudice, but can certainly help fight it. This book tells a story of the damage that prejudice can do. Using economics without jargon, students, investors and the public will be able to follow the narrative and see how prejudice can be opposed. Prejudice is bad for business and the economy. Profit and Prejudice explains why.
Download or read book The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay written by Gay L. Gullickson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1987 book broadens our understanding of the proto-industrial era and the history of women.
