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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"industrial capitalism"”.
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Forging Titans: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism in the Northern Forest, 1850-1950
… "Forging Titans" argues that, as rural America industrialized, the built environment and bodies of workers became parts of nature and these natural forces were mobilized to increase the scale and efficiency of production to reach industrial levels. Because lumberjacks were seen as part of …
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Industrial/statecraft : infrastructure and the making of industrial capitalism in India, ca. 1940
… India. The project looks at the discourse of industrial development and planning in late and post-colonial India, investigating the manner in which infrastructure appears as a trope not only for state's validation but also for aggregation of the Indian industrialist class.
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Aboriginal Dispossession and Proletarianization in Canadian Industrial Capitalism: Creating the Right Profile for the Labour Market
… of production and their subsumption into the industrial-capitalist mode of production. The investigation is a hypothesis about the historical proletarianization process regarding Aboriginal peoples in Canada stemming from dispossession. The analysis utilizes a critical political economic …
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Geopolitics, State-Formation and Economic Development in Quebec and Ontario
… existing historical interpretations assume that capitalism was there, at least in embryo, from the colony’s very beginning in the guise of the fur trade, manufacturing, or a local bourgeoisie. By contrast, this thesis brings together, through a comparative perspective, different pieces of the …
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Spirit, desire and the world: Roho churches of western Kenya in the era of globalization
… production in contradistinction to the European industrial capitalism characteristic of Kenya in the 1930s. It examines the desire of Roho leaders to play a role in the public sphere and recounts their attempt to influence national political life through an indigenous conciliar movement at the …
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"White Slaves of California": Race, Religion, and the Railroad in Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's <i>The Squatter and the Don</i>
… imperialist expansion, and nineteenth-century industrial capitalism, this thesis attends to how Ruiz de Burton’s political project does not unsettle or disrupt structures of settler colonialism; but is ultimately concerned with maintaining the class interests that the Californio Alamar family …
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Defining the Boundaries: Family Farmers, Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and the State in the Rural Midwest, 1898--1938
… historians usually associate solely with urban industrial America. By focusing on industrialization, class relations, and ethnic diversity in a rural context, this dissertation questions the holy triptych of modernization that links urbanization, immigration, and industrialization together as …
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The Social Codes of Tech Workers: On the Quest to be Middle-Class Wealthy and Morally Worthy
… work and class relations emerging within digital capitalism. So far, however, most research has either focused on tech entrepreneurs or the highly precarious crowd and gig workers, neglecting the growing ranks of professionals who render digital technologies. My study fills this gap by uncovering …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… Ecology, a comprehensive critique of advanced industrial capitalism that fused classical Anarchism with Neo-Marxist theory and British ecological theory. By the 1970s, Social Ecology had evolved into a standalone school of thought that became a guiding influence for the American Environmental …
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Fifty Years on the Fringe: Murray Bookchin and the American Revolutionary Tradition, 1921-1971
… Ecology, a comprehensive critique of advanced industrial capitalism that fused classical Anarchism with Neo-Marxist theory and British ecological theory. By the 1970s, Social Ecology had evolved into a standalone school of thought that became a guiding influence for the American Environmental …
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Productivity and economic growth in the Pittsburgh region from 1850 to 1900
… to the second Kondratieff wave of competitive industrial capitalism which began in the 1840s, peaked in the 1870s and ended in the depression of the 1890s. Using data for 37 counties from the Census of Manufacturers, the Verdoorn relationship was estimated by OLS regression. The results …
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Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben und D.F. Malherbe's Hans-die-skipper : ein Vergleich
… (1929) can both be read as reactions to early industrial capitalism, although neither text refers directly to this phenomenon. This dissertation attempts to show that both novels display a similar, ambivalent attitude, whilst defending the "logic of the market" against proponents of the …
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"The Length of Our Vision": Thoreau, Berry, and Sustainability
… worlds—Thoreau's just beginning to embrace industrial capitalism and technological progress, and Berry's very much the product of that embrace. Most importantly, however, both authors focus on individual action and responsibility.
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The English public library as an agency for social stability c. 1850-1919
… externalities; the intention being to advance industrial capitalism whilst ameliorating its dehumanizing effects. The method employed to support this theory is to identify points of intersection between public library growth and recent debates in wider history. Attention is paid to discussions …
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Towards a social theory of mental handicap
… to see the category as a functional one for industrial societies. However, these ahistorical accounts do not add up to an adequate sociology of retardation. Tracing the history of the condition, as the core of this thesis does, we find that it was not identified as a distinct 'social problem' …
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Governing The Peripheries: The Social Reconstruction Of The South And West After The American Civil War
… Reconstruction, western imperialism, and industrial capitalism in the last third of the nineteenth century. These broad developments were evident in many forms, including in the trajectory of one company: Phelps Dodge, a mercantile-turned-industrial corporation based in New York City, …
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The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's <em>This Side of Paradise</em>, "Winter Dreams," and "The Swimmers"
… the new modern age. Under the twin influences of industrial capitalism and a market economy and a fledgling women's movement, affecting, especially, the work place, the American male felt nervous, anxious, and emasculated. In response to what Greg Forter calls the feminizing effects of bourgeois …
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Modern Poetry of Work, the Work of Modern Poetry
… such an ideal with the seeming permanence of industrial capitalism. This study also examines how some of modernism's least known poets---that is, workers themselves---nevertheless used poetry in the 1930s and early 1940s to shape working-class political movements and construct their own …
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Gray City of the Midway: The University of Chicago and the Search for American Urban Culture, 1890-1932
This research examines the American industrial city in the early twentieth century and the role of cultural institutions in the shift to an urban-oriented society. In-depth analysis of the University of Chicago’s architecture and planning traces how urban form emerged gradually as an assimilation …
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Island bodies: registers of race and 'Englishness' on Tristan da Cunha c.1811 - c.1940
… global circulation during the era of mercantile capitalism. This process saw the island framed as a Romantic English rural idyll displaced into the South Atlantic, and resulted in a metonymic linkage being created between the island body and the bodies that inhabited it. The shift from mercantile …
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