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Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Made in Sheffield
Author: Massimiliano MollonaPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845455514
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In 1900, Sheffield was the tenth largest city in the world. Cutlery "made in Sheffield" was used across the globe, and the city built armored plate for the navy in the run-up to the First World War. Today, however, Sheffield's derelict Victorian shop floors and industrial buildings are hidden behind new leisure developments and shopping centers. Based on an extended period of research in two local steel factories, this book combines a lively, descriptive account with a wide-ranging critique of post-industrial capitalism. Its central argument is that recent government attempts to engineer Britain's transition to a post-industrial and classless society have instead created volatile post-industrial spaces marked by informal labor, industrial sweatshops and levels of risk and deprivation that divide citizens along lines of gender, age, and class. The author discovers a link between production and reproduction, and demonstrates the centrality of kinship relations, child and female labor, and intra-household exchanges to the economic process of de-industrialization. Paradoxically, government policies have reinvigorated working-class militancy, spawned local industrial clusters and re-embedded the economy in the spatial and social structure of the neighborhood.
Made in Sheffield
Author: Neil WarnockPublisher: Hodder Headline
ISBN: 9780340937204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
One of soccer’s most colorful and outspoken managers, Neil Warnock ran Sheffield from 1999 until 2007 and cemented his place in the Blades' history books by leading them back to the Premiership in April 2006. With his trademark humor and passion, here Warnock recalls various stories from his life as a manager and gives his input on such controversial players as Gerard Houllier, Gary Megson and Steve Bull. This is a candid insight into the journey of a rebel football manager from the Nationwide Conference to the Premier League.
Inside Power
Author: Gary SheffieldPublisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 0307352234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
This above-average sports memoir is peppered with engaging on-the-field anecdotes, forays inside the competitive mind of a world-class athlete, and thoughtfully presented glimpses of the harsh, often uncaring world of big-time sports.
The Book of Sheffield
Author: Margaret DrabblePublisher: Reading the City
ISBN: 9781912697137
Category : Sheffield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Illustrated Guide to Sheffield and the Surrounding District, Comprising Accounts of the Early History and Progress of the Town ...
Author: Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: A History of Sheffield
Author: David HeyPublisher: Carnegie Pub.
ISBN: 9781859361986
Category : Industries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The city of Sheffield has long been synonymous with cutlery and steel, and most previous books have understandably concentrated on the momentous changes which industrialization wrought on the area over the last two hundred years. The figures are astonishing: as early as the seventeenth century three out of every five men in the town worked in one branch or another of the cutlery trades and, in all, Sheffield had a smithy to every 2.2 houses; a hundred years later there were as many as six watermills per mile on rivers such as the Don, Porter and Rivelin, driving a wide range of industrial machinery and processes; local innovations included Old Sheffield Plate, crucible steel and stainless steel; during the mid-nineteenth century 60 per cent of all British cutlers worked in the Sheffield area, and the region manufactured 90 per cent of British steel, and nearly half the entire European output; small, specialized workshops producing a wide range of goods such as edge-tools and cutlery existed side by side with enormous steel factories (it has been estimated that in 1871 Brown's and Cammell's alone exported to the United States about three times more than the whole American output). Yet, as David Hey shows, the city's history goes back way beyond this. Occupying a commanding position on Wincobank, high above the River Don, are the substantial remains of an Iron Age hillfort, built to defend the local population. Celts, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons came and left a legacy recalled in many local names. By the twelfth century William de Lovetot had built a castle at the confluence of the Don and the Sheaf, and it is likely that is was he who founded the town of Sheffield alongside his residence. A century later can be found the first reference to a Sheffield cutler, so industry in the area can be said to be at least 700 years old, and no doubt stretches back even further.
The Friendly Ones
Author: Philip HensherPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008175667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
‘It’s the book you should give someone who thinks they don’t like novels ... Here is surely a future prizewinner that is easy to read and impossible to forget’ Melissa Katsoulis, The Times The things history will do at the bidding of love