Corporate & Business History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250035547Author Stewart PinkertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

In November of 1891, at the age of twenty-five, John MacDonald Blackstock Hawley arrived in Fort Worth, Texas. A civil engineer from Minnesota, Hawley "hung out his shingle" in 1894 and began a tradition of engineering in Texas that his...

Shaw Industries, which is based in Dalton, Georgia, is the nation's leading textile manufacturer and the world's largest producer of carpets. This history focuses on the evolution of Shaw's business strategy and its adaptations to changing economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602194Author William C. KetchumFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Syracuse University PressPublisher Syracuse University Press

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Shaw Industries, which is based in Dalton, Georgia, is the nation's leading textile manufacturer and the world's largest producer of carpets. This history focuses on the evolution of Shaw's business strategy and its adaptations to changing economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999173725Author Brian TarcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint FrontispiecePublisher FrontispieceWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393312270Author John HeidenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 676g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979995033Author William Louis RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Thomas Max PublishingPublisher Thomas Max PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156004749Author Doron P. LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 365Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner Books

How can workers retain job security in an industry currently experiencing extensive restructuring and retrenchment? In the United States, massive layoffs in the 1980s in industries like steel have resulted in increased worker demands for job security...

More than any other single group of individuals, the Boston Associates were responsible for the sweeping economic transformation that occurred in New England between 1815 and 1861. Through the use of the corporate form, they established an extensive...

This book explores Europe's third sector - the non-profit organisations and providers of social services such as mutuals, co-operatives, associations, voluntary organisations and charities: these elements of a civil society are important yet often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738510583Author Martha Esposito SheaFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Snacks is a history of Canadian snack foods, of the independent producers and workers who make them, and of the consumers who can't put them down. Janis Thiessen profiles several iconic Canadian snack food companies, including Old Dutch Potato Chips,...

"For years I have been convinced that there is not an honest bone in your body. Now I know that you are a god-damned thief," Henry Clay Frick reportedly told Andrew Carnegie at their last meeting in 1900, just before J. P. Morgan bought the Carnegie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930895Author William D. CohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 468gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385507707Author Micheline MaynardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062128263Author Yukari Iwatani KaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 272g

An authoritative introduction to the world of professional gaming and casino management, from the authorities on the subject, the faculty of the UNLV International Gaming Institute: Vincent H. Eade, Director David J. Christianson, Dean William F. Harrah...

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Starbucked will be the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fueled its success. Part Fast Food Nation, part Bobos in Paradise, Starbucked combines investigative heft with witty...

Prior to 1914, Germany dominated the worldwide production of synthetic organic dyes and pharmaceuticals like aspirin. When World War I disrupted the supply of German chemicals to the United States, American entrepreneurs responded to the shortages and...

Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in...

Focusing on five Los Angeles environmental policy debates between 1920 and 1950, Sarah Elkind investigates how practices in American municipal government gave business groups political legitimacy at the local level as well as unanticipated influence over...

Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their ""property,"" or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a...

Using a series of case studies from five industries, Dicke analyzes franchising, a marketing system that combines large and small firms into a single administrative unit, strengthening both in the process. He studies the franchise industry from the 1840s...

Despite almost four centuries of black independent self-help enterprises, the agency of African Americans in attempting to forge their own economic liberation through business activities and entrepreneurship has remained noticeably absent from the...

Pan-amBook InformationISBN 9780738505527Author Lynn M. HomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743290197Author Matthew MayFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981661728Author Michael N MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Silver Sands BooksPublisher Silver Sands BooksWeight(grams) 195g