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Industrialization in the modern world: from the Industrial Revolution to the Internet
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ABC-CLIO
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[2014]
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V. 1. A-P
v. 2. R-Z.
V. 2. Primary documents. I. Perspectives on the political economy of industrialization. An enquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations (1776) / Adam Smith ; The manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels ; The Gotha program (1875) / The German Social Democratic Party ; Theory of the leisure class (1899) / Thorstein Veblen ; The growth of Japan (1904) / Ito Hirobumi ; The spirit of capitalism (1905) / Max Weber ; The challenge of facts (1915) / William Graham Sumner ; "Report of the work of the Council of People's Commissars" (December 22, 1920) / Vladimir Il'ich Lenin ; "Acceptance speech to the Democratic National Convention" (June 27, 1936) / Franklin Delano Roosevelt ; Basic demands for a society worthy of man (Gotesberg program) (November 1959) / German Social Democratic Party ; "Military-industrial complex speech" (1961) / Dwight D. Eisenhower ; "A time for choosing" (October 27, 1964) / Ronald Reagan ; Commencement address at Howard University: "To fulfill these rights" (June 4, 1965) / Lyndon B. Johnson ; "There is no such thing as society" (September 23, 1987) / Margaret Thatcher ; "Signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) side agreements" (September 14, 1993) / William Jefferson Clinton ; "Economic populism" (December 6, 2011) / Barack Hussein Obama -- II. Perspectives on the industrial workplace. "Jerusalem" (1904) / William Blake ; "British inquiry into child labor" (1831-32) / Sadler Committee ; "The song of the shirt" (1843) / Thomas Hood ; Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (1845) / Frederick Douglass ; The jungle (1906) / Upton Sinclair ; "An experiment, with consequences" (January 7, 1914) / Wall Street Journal ; "The stokers" (1915) / Ernest Poole ; "Horse and wagon" (1919) / John A. Fitch ; "Mills and the men" (1920) / Andrew Carnegie ; My life and work (1922) / Henry Ford ; "Plant's death was long expected" (July 15, 1997) / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- III. Effects of industrialization. The modern traveller (1898) / Hillaire Belloc and Basil Temple Blackwood ; "An Englishwoman on American wives" (January 3, 1909) / Mary Mortimer Maxwell ; "Farm woman works eleven hours a day" (July 6, 1910) / New York Times ; "American cars making headway" (July 24, 1910) / New York Times ; "Inventions are for men: they have all the money to buy the labor-saving devices" (August 17, 1915) / Mary Beard ; Fight for the forest (1992) / Chico Mendes ; "The Kyoto Accord and global climate change" (June 11, 2001) / George W. Bush ; "Free trade arithmetic for progressives (November 23, 2006) / Dean Baker ; "The challenge of climate change" (2007) / Al Gore ; "Global warming alarmists" (2007) / James Inhofe ; "Time to take a second look at our 'free trade' agreements" (September 18, 2008) / Mark Weisbrot ; "Speech to the United Nations on climate change" (September 23, 2009) / Barack Hussein Obama ; "Korean teens win $100,000 world texting championship" (January 14, 2010) / Verena Dobnik ; "The ILO battles child labor" (May 10, 2011) / International Labour Organization ; "Fact sheet on carbon pollution" (2012) / Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) --
IV. Politics of business and labor in the West. Amazing grace (1779) / John Newton ; Thoughts on the African slave trade (1788) / John Newton ; Report on manufactures (1791) / Alexander Hamilton ; Essay on the principle of population (1798) / Thomas Malthus ; Combination Acts of Great Britain (1799, 1800) ; Luddite writings (Great Britain) (1812) ; "On free trade" (1817) / David Ricardo ; "Report to British Parliament on working conditions in textile mills" (1833) / Sadler Committee ; The Chartists' first petition to the British Parliament (1838) ; "The commercial policy of the German Zollverein" (1841) / Friedrich List ; "Speech to the British House of Commons supporting repeal of the Corn Laws" (1846) / Sir Robert Peel ; "The people's anthem" (1850) / Ebenezer Elliot ; "Decree emancipating the serfs" (1861) / Czar Alexander II ; Industrial biography: iron workers and tool makers (1863) / Samuel Smiles ; "Address to Abraham Lincoln" (1864) / International Workingmen's Association ; "Social welfare" (1880s) / Prince Otto von Bismarck ; Looking backward (1887) / Edward Bellamy ; "On the principles of the American Federation of Labor" (1903, 1914, 1920) / Samuel Gompers ; "I would be a traitor" (1911) / Rose Schneiderman ; "Bread and roses" (1912) / Rose Schneiderman/James Oppenheim ; "The great strike" (1912) / Frederik van Eeden ; Other people's money and how the bankers use it (1914) / Louis D. Brandeis ; "Slave narrative" (1938) / James Jackson
V. Latecomers to industrialization. "Primitive accumulation" (1867) / Karl Marx ; Heart of darkness (1899) / Joseph Conrad ; "The African roots of war" (1915) / W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ; "Marxism vs. liberalism" (1937) / Joseph Stalin and H.G. Wells ; "Speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" (February 24-25, 1956) / Nikita Khrushchev ; "The power of the powerless" (1978) / Vaclav Havel ; "Origins of lean production" (July 16, 1984) / Taiichi Ohno ; "There has been an accident" (April 28, 1986, 9:02 p.m.) / Vremya (Time) ; Workers of the Donbass speak: survival and identity in the new Ukraine, 1989-1992 (1995) / Narsis Melikian ; "Justice in the Maquiladoras" (June 2, 1999) / Martha A. Ojeda ; "Cell phone paradise" (March 2, 2000) / Korea Times ; "Brazil's learning curve" (September 11, 2000) / Bob Williams ; "African union and challenges of development" (January 3, 2002) / This Day (Nigeria) ; "Educating China's 'little emperors'" (November 5, 2003) / China Daily ; "The case of Ms. Zhang: peregrinations of a young migrant worker" (2006) / China Labour Bulletin ; "China's middle class" (June 1, 2006) / Tschang Chi-Chu ; "Cell phone banking on the rise" (November 22, 2007) / BuaNews ; "Why we are campaigning for re-industrialization of labour" (April 24, 2009) / Vanguard (Nigeria) ; "Solar city" (December 5, 2009) / Sim Chi Yin ; "The great Indian technolution" (January 23, 2010) / Subodh Varma ; "Court battle for sick miners" (November 21, 2010) / Richard Meeran and Zanele Mbuyisa ; "US, Chinese firms to build world's largest solar plant" (January 6, 2011) / Chinadaily.com.cn ; "Cell phone? Enemy no. 1 in classrooms" (January 26, 2011) / Kim Rahn ; "The workers behind the iPhones" (May 11, 2011) / Debby Chan Sze Wan.
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