Industries Professions category: 12443 books

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Chips and Change

How Crisis Reshapes the Semiconductor Industry

by Clair Brown, Greg Linden
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011

How the chip industry has responded to a series of crises over the past twenty-five years, often reinventing itself and shifting the basis for global competitive advantage. For decades the semiconductor industry has been a driver of global economic growth and social change. Semiconductors,...
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Gender and Sexuality in Male-Dominated Occupations

Women Working in Construction and Transport

by Tessa Wright
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016

Examining women’s diverse experiences of male-dominated work, this ground-breaking book explores what sexuality and gender means to women working in the construction and transport industries. Using accounts from heterosexual women and lesbians working in professional, manual and operational roles,...
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Aviation and Tourism

Implications for Leisure Travel

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Transport is an essential element of tourism, providing the vital link between the tourist generating areas and destinations. Good accessibility, which is determined by the transport services provided, is a fundamental condition for the development of any tourist destination. Moreover the transport...
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by John Medkeff Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015

While Delaware maintains one of the oldest beer-brewing traditions in the United States, its history has largely been lost or forgotten over the course of nearly four centuries. Beer was a main source of sustenance to Delaware's early European settlers, and its production eventually became one of...
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry

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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014

Volume 11 of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines the economic culture of the South by pairing two categories that account for the ways many southerners have made their living. In the antebellum period, the wealth of southern whites came largely from agriculture that relied on the forced...
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Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy

Making and Keeping New Industries in the United States

by David J. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012

An examination of the politics of green jobs that foresees a potential ideological shift away from neoliberalism toward “developmentalism.” Good Green Jobs in a Global Economy is the first book to explore the broad implications of the convergence of industrial and environnmental policy...
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Small Investor Playbook

Analyze Companies Like the Pros

by Mark D. Mandel
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013

This book offers the small investor unique assistance that is not found in other publications offering investment advice. The small investor is, in effect, competing with professional money managers, who are often on the opposite side of a trade. If a stock is becoming cheaper because institutions...
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The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)

The Effects of Government Policy, 1945-79

by Peter Dunnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British industries. Rather...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013

This book provides insight into the potential for the market to protect and improve labour standards and working conditions in global apparel supply chains. It examines the possibilities and limitations of market approaches to securing social compliance in global manufacturing industries. It does...
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Verizon Untethered

An Insider's Story of Innovation and Disruption

by Ivan Seidenberg, Ram Charan, Scott McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

The Verizon leadership team stands apart from most leadership teams today in their willingness repeatedly to put the enterprise before the individual. At first blush, this might look like a hopelessly old-fashioned notion in the age of the selfie. Yet, I would argue this is a trait that future leaders...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this handbook takes a closer look at particular industries, business practices, and policy issues associated with the digital industry....
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Media Product Portfolios

Issues in Management of Multiple Products and Services

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Media product portfolios are rapidly becoming the predominant shared characteristic of media companies worldwide. The phenomenon involves firms from all kinds of media--newspapers, magazines, television, radio, cinema--and is found in enterprises ranging from small, local firms to large, globalized...
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by Saeid Mokhatab, John Y. Mak, Jaleel V. Valappil
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry, using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to expand its markets, diversify its supply...
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The Plot to Save the Planet

How Visionary Entrepreneurs and Corporate Titans Are Creating Real Solutions to to Global Warming

by Brian Dumaine
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008

American entrepreneurs, corporate tycoons, and financiers are plotting what they do best—creating new industries that change the world and making billions in the process—a plot that will ultimately save the planet. The Plot to Save the Planet is an illuminating and inspiring look at the...
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