Timing a Century;history of the Waltham Watch Company/by Charles W. Moore
Title | Timing a Century;history of the Waltham Watch Company/by Charles W. Moore PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Walden Moore |
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Pages | 362 |
Release | 1945 |
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Timing a Century
Title | Timing a Century PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Walden Moore |
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Pages | 440 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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The business of time
Title | The business of time PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre-Yves Donzé |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2022-08-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1526162563 |
World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory during the twentieth century. How did this situation come about? The business of time aims to answer this question by presenting the first comprehensive history of the sector. It traces the evolution and transformation of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting the conditions that enabled watch production to expand across the globe and revealing how multinational companies gradually emerged to dominate the industry.
Time: A Bibliographic Guide
Title | Time: A Bibliographic Guide PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel L. Macey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2018-10-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0429685130 |
Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.
Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age
Title | Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age PDF eBook |
Author | Ross Thomson |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2009-05-08 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0801896622 |
The United States registered phenomenal economic growth between the establishment of the new republic and the end of the Civil War. Ross Thomson's fresh study accounts for the unprecedented technological innovations that helped propel antebellum growth. Thomson argues that the transition of the United States from an agrarian economy in 1790 to an industrial leader in 1865 relied fundamentally on the spread of technological knowledge within and across industries. Essential to this spread was a dense web of knowledge-diffusing institutions—new occupations and industries, the patent office, machine shops, mechanics’ associations, scientific societies, public colleges, and the civil engineering profession. Together they composed an integrated innovation system that generated, disseminated, and employed new technical knowledge across ever-widening ranges of the economy. To trace technological change in fourteen major industries and the economy as a whole, Thomson analyzes 14,000 patents, the records of two dozen machinery firms, census data for 1,800 companies, and hundreds of business directories. This exhaustive research leads to his interesting interpretation of technological diffusion and development. Thomson's impressive study of the infrastructure that fueled and supported the young country’s economic and industrial successes will interest students of economic, technological, and business history.
USITC Publication
Title | USITC Publication PDF eBook |
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Pages | 114 |
Release | 1982 |
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Family Time & Industrial Time
Title | Family Time & Industrial Time PDF eBook |
Author | Tamara K. Hareven |
Publisher | University Press of America |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780819190260 |
The myth that industrialization broke down traditional family ties has long pervaded American society. Professor Hareven, a leading social historian, dispels this myth and illustrates how the family survived and became an active force in the modern factory. In this book, Hareven examines the multiple roles that the workers' families fulfilled in facilitating their adaptation to the pressures of changing work patterns and new modes of life in an industrial city. She reconstructs family and work patterns among immigrants as well as native textile laborers over two generations during a crucial period in the transformation of American industry from the late nineteenth century. A case study based on what was the world's largest textile plantóthe Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshireóthe book integrates a wide array of documentary evidence with oral testimony. It examines the lives of real peopleóthe way they acted, the way they perceived their lives, and the kinds of decisions they made when pacing their lives in relation to the demands of the industrial system. Originally published in 1982 by Cambridge University Press.