Author: Westmoreland Club (Richmond, Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
List of Members of the Westmoreland Club, February 1, 1912
Author: Westmoreland Club (Richmond, Va.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Directory of Officers, Societies, Divisions, Local Sections, Student Chapters and Committees
Author: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum EngineersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Year Book
Author: Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Olde Penn
Author: Networks of Influence and Power
Author: Robert LeePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317088832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
During the nineteenth century Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network. As the 'second city' of Empire, its merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the development of new markets and their integration within an increasingly global economy. This ground-breaking volume brings together ten original contributions that reflect upon the development of the city's business community from the early-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War with an emphasis on the period from 1851 to 1912. It offers the first detailed analysis of Liverpool's merchant community within a conceptual and historiographical framework which focuses on the economic, social and cultural role of business elites in the nineteenth century. It explores the extent to which business success was predicated on the maintenance of networks of trust; analyses the importance of business culture in structuring commercial operations; and discusses the role of ethics, trust and reputation within the changing framework of the business environment. Particular attention is paid to the role of women and the important contribution of the family to commercial success and the maintenance of social networks. Changes in business practice and social networks are also examined within a spatial context in order to assess the impact of the development of a distinct commercial centre and the clustering of commercial activity on interaction, reputation and trust, while particular attention is paid to the effect of suburbanization on existing associational networks, the social cohesiveness of business culture, and the cultural identity of the merchant community as a whole.
Upper Ten Thousand
Author: American Art Directory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-
Biographical Directory of the Railway Officials of America
Author: The Bosses' Union
Author: Vilja HuldenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252053885
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of unions exercising independent power. Vilja Hulden reveals how this tension provided the opening for pro-business organizations to shift public attention from concerns about inequality and dangerous working conditions to a belief that unions trampled on an individual's right to work. Inventing the term closed shop, employers mounted what they called an open-shop campaign to undermine union demands that workers at unionized workplaces join the union. Employer organizations lobbied Congress to resist labor's proposals as tyrannical, brought court cases to taint labor's tactics as illegal, and influenced newspaper coverage of unions. While employers were not a monolith nor all-powerful, they generally agreed that unions were a nuisance. Employers successfully leveraged money and connections to create perceptions of organized labor that still echo in our discussions of worker rights.