J. R. Hicks
- Published in print:
- 1977
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198284079
- eISBN:
- 9780191596421
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198284071.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
The chapters contained in this book on money and growth, including two previously unpublished chapters, brings together the work of Sir John Hicks, covering the following: the mainspring of economic ...
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The chapters contained in this book on money and growth, including two previously unpublished chapters, brings together the work of Sir John Hicks, covering the following: the mainspring of economic growth; industrialism; monetary experience and the theory of money; expected inflation; Hawtrey; recollections and documents; capital controversies, ancient and modern; the disaster point in risk theory; and explanations and revisions.Less
The chapters contained in this book on money and growth, including two previously unpublished chapters, brings together the work of Sir John Hicks, covering the following: the mainspring of economic growth; industrialism; monetary experience and the theory of money; expected inflation; Hawtrey; recollections and documents; capital controversies, ancient and modern; the disaster point in risk theory; and explanations and revisions.
Richard Breen
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- November 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199258451
- eISBN:
- 9780191601491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199258457.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
Outlines the objectives and layout of the volume; discusses the main theories that have guided empirical research on intergenerational social mobility and the findings of this research; and explains ...
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Outlines the objectives and layout of the volume; discusses the main theories that have guided empirical research on intergenerational social mobility and the findings of this research; and explains the main concepts and instruments (such as the class schema) that are used in the book.Less
Outlines the objectives and layout of the volume; discusses the main theories that have guided empirical research on intergenerational social mobility and the findings of this research; and explains the main concepts and instruments (such as the class schema) that are used in the book.
Gøsta Esping‐Andersen
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198742005
- eISBN:
- 9780191599163
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198742002.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Revisits welfare regimes through the analytical lens of the family, first making the point that modernization theory should not have been taken at face value, since even if history has, in general, ...
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Revisits welfare regimes through the analytical lens of the family, first making the point that modernization theory should not have been taken at face value, since even if history has, in general, eroded the role of households in welfare production, this is perhaps less salient than specific international variations (some nations are characterized by their advanced level of de‐ familialization of welfare responsibilities, others for their sustained adherence to familialism). In other words, some societies may have brought the idealized Parsonian family into being; others reproduce many of the features of the ‘pre‐industrial’ household. Most welfare state theory provides little help in understanding such variation, and the real problem begins with the association of the nuclear family with industrialism, for it is simply wrong to assume that it lost its welfare functions with the advent of welfare states. The second point addresses the prevailing, often feminist, arguments that models of welfare regimes that have been specified via a political economy perspective fail to hold up when subject to a gendered analysis. Alternative gendered typologies do, in fact, often contradict political economy typologies, but the contradiction may be spurious because different phenomena are being explained and compared. The objective of this chapter is not to debate gender theories, but to understand the position of the (changing) family in the overall infrastructure of welfare production and consumption: what happens to our political economy models of welfare regimes when we insert the family; what are the effects of family change on welfare states and, ultimately, on post‐industrial change? However, since household‐welfare production is largely—but far from exclusively—based on women's unpaid labour, gender differences in the family‐welfare nexus clearly must be addressed. The three sections of the chapter are: Households and Welfare Production; The Family and Comparative Welfare Regimes; and Familialism and the Low‐Fertility Equilibrium.Less
Revisits welfare regimes through the analytical lens of the family, first making the point that modernization theory should not have been taken at face value, since even if history has, in general, eroded the role of households in welfare production, this is perhaps less salient than specific international variations (some nations are characterized by their advanced level of de‐ familialization of welfare responsibilities, others for their sustained adherence to familialism). In other words, some societies may have brought the idealized Parsonian family into being; others reproduce many of the features of the ‘pre‐industrial’ household. Most welfare state theory provides little help in understanding such variation, and the real problem begins with the association of the nuclear family with industrialism, for it is simply wrong to assume that it lost its welfare functions with the advent of welfare states. The second point addresses the prevailing, often feminist, arguments that models of welfare regimes that have been specified via a political economy perspective fail to hold up when subject to a gendered analysis. Alternative gendered typologies do, in fact, often contradict political economy typologies, but the contradiction may be spurious because different phenomena are being explained and compared. The objective of this chapter is not to debate gender theories, but to understand the position of the (changing) family in the overall infrastructure of welfare production and consumption: what happens to our political economy models of welfare regimes when we insert the family; what are the effects of family change on welfare states and, ultimately, on post‐industrial change? However, since household‐welfare production is largely—but far from exclusively—based on women's unpaid labour, gender differences in the family‐welfare nexus clearly must be addressed. The three sections of the chapter are: Households and Welfare Production; The Family and Comparative Welfare Regimes; and Familialism and the Low‐Fertility Equilibrium.
Paul Pierson
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198297567
- eISBN:
- 9780191600104
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198297564.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This is the third of three chapters on the sources of pressure on contemporary national welfare states, all of which seek to show how examining the sources of strain carries implications for ...
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This is the third of three chapters on the sources of pressure on contemporary national welfare states, all of which seek to show how examining the sources of strain carries implications for identifying who is likely to fight with whom over what; the authors of the three chapters are not of one mind on this issue. Here, Pierson focuses on trends within affluent democracies that constitute potential sources of the strains usually attributed to globalization. Like Iversen in the previous chapter, he highlights the role of the shift from manufacturing to services, but rather than focusing on the disruption of employment, his concern is the shift in the workforce to activities where productivity improvements are more limited; the result has been slower economic growth, which generates fiscal strain for mature welfare states. This, for Pierson, is one of a series of ‘post‐industrial shifts’ that produce severe pressures on the welfare state — others include the maturation of governmental commitments, the transformation of household structures, and population ageing. All these shifts create intense fiscal problems; in addition, social change in a context where programmes are often slow to adapt generates mismatches between the inherited capacities of welfare states and contemporary demands for social provision.Less
This is the third of three chapters on the sources of pressure on contemporary national welfare states, all of which seek to show how examining the sources of strain carries implications for identifying who is likely to fight with whom over what; the authors of the three chapters are not of one mind on this issue. Here, Pierson focuses on trends within affluent democracies that constitute potential sources of the strains usually attributed to globalization. Like Iversen in the previous chapter, he highlights the role of the shift from manufacturing to services, but rather than focusing on the disruption of employment, his concern is the shift in the workforce to activities where productivity improvements are more limited; the result has been slower economic growth, which generates fiscal strain for mature welfare states. This, for Pierson, is one of a series of ‘post‐industrial shifts’ that produce severe pressures on the welfare state — others include the maturation of governmental commitments, the transformation of household structures, and population ageing. All these shifts create intense fiscal problems; in addition, social change in a context where programmes are often slow to adapt generates mismatches between the inherited capacities of welfare states and contemporary demands for social provision.
S. A. Skinner
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199273232
- eISBN:
- 9780191706394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273232.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This chapter looks at tractarian criticism of the commercial spirit — ‘the worship of Mammon’ — and of the industrialism and economic individualism that threatened paternal social structures in ...
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This chapter looks at tractarian criticism of the commercial spirit — ‘the worship of Mammon’ — and of the industrialism and economic individualism that threatened paternal social structures in Victorian England. As Christopher Dawson recognised at the outset of his celebrated essay The Spirit of the Oxford Movement in 1933, the anti-liberalism of the Oxford Movement is not a proof of its insensitiveness to the need for social reform. On the contrary, its hostility to liberalism was due, at least in part, to its dissatisfaction with a social system which seemed dedicated to the service of Mammon. The worship of mammon entailed individual and social evils. In the individual this was self-evident: it displaced the worship of God. Leading critics of commercialism during the period included John Henry Newman and Thomas Mozley. The chapter also discusses tractarians' medieval idealism as an obvious reflection of wider correspondences between tractarianism and romanticism.Less
This chapter looks at tractarian criticism of the commercial spirit — ‘the worship of Mammon’ — and of the industrialism and economic individualism that threatened paternal social structures in Victorian England. As Christopher Dawson recognised at the outset of his celebrated essay The Spirit of the Oxford Movement in 1933, the anti-liberalism of the Oxford Movement is not a proof of its insensitiveness to the need for social reform. On the contrary, its hostility to liberalism was due, at least in part, to its dissatisfaction with a social system which seemed dedicated to the service of Mammon. The worship of mammon entailed individual and social evils. In the individual this was self-evident: it displaced the worship of God. Leading critics of commercialism during the period included John Henry Newman and Thomas Mozley. The chapter also discusses tractarians' medieval idealism as an obvious reflection of wider correspondences between tractarianism and romanticism.
John Hicks
- Published in print:
- 1977
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198284079
- eISBN:
- 9780191596421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198284071.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Macro- and Monetary Economics
This chapter explores the meaning of industrialism. It considers some of the consequences which follow when industrialism is defined as ‘science-based technical progress embodied in physical ...
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This chapter explores the meaning of industrialism. It considers some of the consequences which follow when industrialism is defined as ‘science-based technical progress embodied in physical equipment’. It discusses industrialism in relation to science-based technology, economies of scale, land, and labour.Less
This chapter explores the meaning of industrialism. It considers some of the consequences which follow when industrialism is defined as ‘science-based technical progress embodied in physical equipment’. It discusses industrialism in relation to science-based technology, economies of scale, land, and labour.
Fernihough Anne
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198112358
- eISBN:
- 9780191670770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198112358.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Women in Love is both an intense scrutiny of the status of art and artists in modern society and a graphic and heartfelt evocation of the spread of the ‘leprosy’ of industrialism ...
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Women in Love is both an intense scrutiny of the status of art and artists in modern society and a graphic and heartfelt evocation of the spread of the ‘leprosy’ of industrialism over the land. For D. H. Lawrence, aesthetics and industrialism are vitally connected. This chapter examines the links between Lawrence's art-criticism and Victorian commentaries on industrialism, in order to go on to point to the ways in which Lawrence departed from the positions of his nineteenth-century predecessors. The inclusion of Martin Heidegger in an assessment of Lawrence's writings on art is not arbitrary, although, surprisingly, almost nothing has been published on the extensive links between these two thinkers. Like Lawrence, Heidegger was an energetic commentator on both art and the impact of capitalistic industrialism and technology on the environment.Less
Women in Love is both an intense scrutiny of the status of art and artists in modern society and a graphic and heartfelt evocation of the spread of the ‘leprosy’ of industrialism over the land. For D. H. Lawrence, aesthetics and industrialism are vitally connected. This chapter examines the links between Lawrence's art-criticism and Victorian commentaries on industrialism, in order to go on to point to the ways in which Lawrence departed from the positions of his nineteenth-century predecessors. The inclusion of Martin Heidegger in an assessment of Lawrence's writings on art is not arbitrary, although, surprisingly, almost nothing has been published on the extensive links between these two thinkers. Like Lawrence, Heidegger was an energetic commentator on both art and the impact of capitalistic industrialism and technology on the environment.
Deepak Lal and H. Myint
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294320
- eISBN:
- 9780191596582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294328.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter analyses the empirical lessons of economic policy for promoting growth arising from the sample of developing countries examined in the book. It emphasizes, in particular, the importance ...
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This chapter analyses the empirical lessons of economic policy for promoting growth arising from the sample of developing countries examined in the book. It emphasizes, in particular, the importance of the classical prescription for providing an economic environment with stable property rights that favours the promotion of productivity, thrift, and above all entrepreneurship. It also takes a sceptical look at various strategies of development that have been proposed. The four sections of the chapter are (1) the relation between our approach and the neoclassical approach to economic policy; (2) ‘Capital Fundamentalism’ and ‘Industrial Fundamentalism’; (3) redressing the anti‐agricultural bias and agricultural ‘fundamentalism’; and (4) redistributive policies and land reform.Less
This chapter analyses the empirical lessons of economic policy for promoting growth arising from the sample of developing countries examined in the book. It emphasizes, in particular, the importance of the classical prescription for providing an economic environment with stable property rights that favours the promotion of productivity, thrift, and above all entrepreneurship. It also takes a sceptical look at various strategies of development that have been proposed. The four sections of the chapter are (1) the relation between our approach and the neoclassical approach to economic policy; (2) ‘Capital Fundamentalism’ and ‘Industrial Fundamentalism’; (3) redressing the anti‐agricultural bias and agricultural ‘fundamentalism’; and (4) redistributive policies and land reform.
Jeffrey T. Manuel
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780816694297
- eISBN:
- 9781452952482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816694297.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
Chapter five describes how historical memory became a battleground on the postwar Iron Range. Amid conflict over the future direction of the Iron Range's economy, the region turned to heritage ...
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Chapter five describes how historical memory became a battleground on the postwar Iron Range. Amid conflict over the future direction of the Iron Range's economy, the region turned to heritage tourism. The centerpiece of heritage tourism on the Iron Range was a museum and entertainment complex known as Ironworld. Ironworld was a microcosm of the larger problems of historical memory on the Iron Range and in other declining industrial regions, where residents were torn between a desire to honor the industrial past and the challenge of moving into a post-industrial future.Less
Chapter five describes how historical memory became a battleground on the postwar Iron Range. Amid conflict over the future direction of the Iron Range's economy, the region turned to heritage tourism. The centerpiece of heritage tourism on the Iron Range was a museum and entertainment complex known as Ironworld. Ironworld was a microcosm of the larger problems of historical memory on the Iron Range and in other declining industrial regions, where residents were torn between a desire to honor the industrial past and the challenge of moving into a post-industrial future.
David Igler
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520226586
- eISBN:
- 9780520938939
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520226586.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller and Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. This book examines how ...
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Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller and Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. This book examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment. It uses one case study to illuminate the industrial development and environmental transformation of the American West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The process by which two neighborhood butchers turned themselves into landed industrialists depended to an extraordinary degree on the acquisition, manipulation, and exploitation of natural resources. The author examines the broader impact that industrialism—as exemplified by Miller and Lux—had on landscapes and waterscapes, and on human as well as plant and animal life in the West. He also provides a rich discussion of the social relations engineered by Miller and Lux, from the dispossession of California rancheros to the ethnic segmentation of the firm's massive labor force. The book also covers such topics as land acquisition and reclamation, water politics, San Francisco's unique business environment, and the city's relation to its surrounding hinterlands. Above all, it highlights essential issues that resonate for us today: who holds the right and who has the power to engineer the landscape for market production?Less
Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller and Lux, a vast meatpacking conglomerate started by two San Francisco butchers in 1858. This book examines how Henry Miller and Charles Lux, two German immigrants, consolidated the West's most extensive land and water rights, swayed legislatures and courts, monopolized western beef markets, and imposed their corporate will on California's natural environment. It uses one case study to illuminate the industrial development and environmental transformation of the American West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The process by which two neighborhood butchers turned themselves into landed industrialists depended to an extraordinary degree on the acquisition, manipulation, and exploitation of natural resources. The author examines the broader impact that industrialism—as exemplified by Miller and Lux—had on landscapes and waterscapes, and on human as well as plant and animal life in the West. He also provides a rich discussion of the social relations engineered by Miller and Lux, from the dispossession of California rancheros to the ethnic segmentation of the firm's massive labor force. The book also covers such topics as land acquisition and reclamation, water politics, San Francisco's unique business environment, and the city's relation to its surrounding hinterlands. Above all, it highlights essential issues that resonate for us today: who holds the right and who has the power to engineer the landscape for market production?
Frédéric Neyrat
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823282586
- eISBN:
- 9780823284931
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823282586.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
In chapter 6, Neyrat moves to describing the new ecologists and environmentalists of the twenty-first century: the ecomodernists. Neyrat provides the origins of this new capitalist and industrialist ...
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In chapter 6, Neyrat moves to describing the new ecologists and environmentalists of the twenty-first century: the ecomodernists. Neyrat provides the origins of this new capitalist and industrialist friendly environmentalism that promised to take into account all environmental concerns within its mode of development and growth. In taking on a seemingly pragmatist position outside of ideological frameworks and offering a positive vision of our environmental future whereby technologies such as nuclear power, GMOs, and fracking, as well as rejecting the division between nature and technology, ecomodernists completely reject the environmentalism and ecology of their twentieth-century forebears. Neyrat provides an introduction to these ecomodernists who have a very different conception of the current era, where striving to comprehend some ideal or old environmental state of nature was always already impossible due to the inherent perpetual instability of the turbulence of ecosystems.Less
In chapter 6, Neyrat moves to describing the new ecologists and environmentalists of the twenty-first century: the ecomodernists. Neyrat provides the origins of this new capitalist and industrialist friendly environmentalism that promised to take into account all environmental concerns within its mode of development and growth. In taking on a seemingly pragmatist position outside of ideological frameworks and offering a positive vision of our environmental future whereby technologies such as nuclear power, GMOs, and fracking, as well as rejecting the division between nature and technology, ecomodernists completely reject the environmentalism and ecology of their twentieth-century forebears. Neyrat provides an introduction to these ecomodernists who have a very different conception of the current era, where striving to comprehend some ideal or old environmental state of nature was always already impossible due to the inherent perpetual instability of the turbulence of ecosystems.
Chik Collins and Ian Levitt
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447349778
- eISBN:
- 9781447349792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter draws on extensive research in government archives to show how Glasgow was affected by a highly discriminatory policy agenda developed within Scotland from the early 1960s. From that ...
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This chapter draws on extensive research in government archives to show how Glasgow was affected by a highly discriminatory policy agenda developed within Scotland from the early 1960s. From that time, Glasgow’s industrial decline was actively embraced and accelerated by Scottish Office policy makers as part of a regional economic policy agenda seeking ‘development and growth’ in other parts of Scotland. This agenda, which was sustained for decades, is discussed here as an evolving set of policy discourses – of ‘overspill’, ‘redeployment’ and of ‘enterprise and personal responsibility’. The subsequent embrace by Glasgow’s civic leaders of a markedly post-industrial trajectory reflected their attempt to work within, while also pushing against, this deeply entrenched policy paradigm. Appreciating all of this is essential in considering appropriate policy responses for the city’s future. Currently, the evidence is that it is not sufficiently appreciated – either in Glasgow, or by the Scottish Government in Edinburgh.Less
This chapter draws on extensive research in government archives to show how Glasgow was affected by a highly discriminatory policy agenda developed within Scotland from the early 1960s. From that time, Glasgow’s industrial decline was actively embraced and accelerated by Scottish Office policy makers as part of a regional economic policy agenda seeking ‘development and growth’ in other parts of Scotland. This agenda, which was sustained for decades, is discussed here as an evolving set of policy discourses – of ‘overspill’, ‘redeployment’ and of ‘enterprise and personal responsibility’. The subsequent embrace by Glasgow’s civic leaders of a markedly post-industrial trajectory reflected their attempt to work within, while also pushing against, this deeply entrenched policy paradigm. Appreciating all of this is essential in considering appropriate policy responses for the city’s future. Currently, the evidence is that it is not sufficiently appreciated – either in Glasgow, or by the Scottish Government in Edinburgh.
Ruth H. Bloch
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520234055
- eISBN:
- 9780520936478
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234055.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter demonstrates fundamental changes in the religious, literary, and medical images of mothers between the seventeenth century and the late-eighteenth century. It also provides an ...
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This chapter demonstrates fundamental changes in the religious, literary, and medical images of mothers between the seventeenth century and the late-eighteenth century. It also provides an interpretation that balances the influence of religious and Enlightenment ideas against the effects of early commercial capitalism and industrialism. It argues that the feminine ideals of practical help in terms of aristocratic refinement gave way to the idealization of moral motherhood. Puritanism in some ways actually lowered the status of women. The lack of emphasis on motherhood in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan literature reflected certain social realities of family life. The rise of the moral mother, even in its more conservative evangelical version, had ambiguous effects on the status of women. The rise of the moral mother also played its part in the long-range upgrading of the social status of women.Less
This chapter demonstrates fundamental changes in the religious, literary, and medical images of mothers between the seventeenth century and the late-eighteenth century. It also provides an interpretation that balances the influence of religious and Enlightenment ideas against the effects of early commercial capitalism and industrialism. It argues that the feminine ideals of practical help in terms of aristocratic refinement gave way to the idealization of moral motherhood. Puritanism in some ways actually lowered the status of women. The lack of emphasis on motherhood in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Puritan literature reflected certain social realities of family life. The rise of the moral mother, even in its more conservative evangelical version, had ambiguous effects on the status of women. The rise of the moral mother also played its part in the long-range upgrading of the social status of women.
Simon J. Bronner
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813134062
- eISBN:
- 9780813135885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813134062.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter argues that the meaning of craft in twenty-first century America has been shaped by the transition from a preindustrial to a post-industrial society. Craft has been culturally located in ...
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This chapter argues that the meaning of craft in twenty-first century America has been shaped by the transition from a preindustrial to a post-industrial society. Craft has been culturally located in traditions as a naturalistic sign of social belonging and a commentary on mechanical displacement engendered by modernity. It has been related to the intellectual construction of folk art representing the non-utilitarian uses of handwork in a post-industrial society. Discussed examples of craftsmanship that become symbols of human control in mass society include basketry, chairmaking, yard art, and roadside memorials.Less
This chapter argues that the meaning of craft in twenty-first century America has been shaped by the transition from a preindustrial to a post-industrial society. Craft has been culturally located in traditions as a naturalistic sign of social belonging and a commentary on mechanical displacement engendered by modernity. It has been related to the intellectual construction of folk art representing the non-utilitarian uses of handwork in a post-industrial society. Discussed examples of craftsmanship that become symbols of human control in mass society include basketry, chairmaking, yard art, and roadside memorials.
David Igler
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520226586
- eISBN:
- 9780520938939
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520226586.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This chapter begins by describing the final years of Henry Miller's life, and then explains that after his death, the company entered a steady decline from which it would not recover. Next it ...
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This chapter begins by describing the final years of Henry Miller's life, and then explains that after his death, the company entered a steady decline from which it would not recover. Next it discusses the family's bitter legal battle over the estate and how it disappointed Miller. The chapter also explains that Miller and Lux symbolized a crucial component of a broader industrial society which transformed the region and the nation during the late nineteenth century. Next, it notes that by recognizing that far-western firms such as Miller and Lux operated at the heart of this transition, industrialism can be realized as a historical process which enveloped an entire nation and contained important regional contingencies. The chapter then explains that the fall of the company symbolized broader changes to the region and nation. Lastly, it highlights that wealth and power remained with those who could engineer the landscape and temporarily elude the environmental and social consequences.Less
This chapter begins by describing the final years of Henry Miller's life, and then explains that after his death, the company entered a steady decline from which it would not recover. Next it discusses the family's bitter legal battle over the estate and how it disappointed Miller. The chapter also explains that Miller and Lux symbolized a crucial component of a broader industrial society which transformed the region and the nation during the late nineteenth century. Next, it notes that by recognizing that far-western firms such as Miller and Lux operated at the heart of this transition, industrialism can be realized as a historical process which enveloped an entire nation and contained important regional contingencies. The chapter then explains that the fall of the company symbolized broader changes to the region and nation. Lastly, it highlights that wealth and power remained with those who could engineer the landscape and temporarily elude the environmental and social consequences.
Marjo Koivisto
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199652792
- eISBN:
- 9780191745270
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199652792.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter follows John Ruggie’s work in contesting the common IR assumption collapsing very different forms of state power into one. It distinguishes the welfare state form as a separate state ...
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This chapter follows John Ruggie’s work in contesting the common IR assumption collapsing very different forms of state power into one. It distinguishes the welfare state form as a separate state type from absolutist and constitutional states by drawing on historical sociology. When looked at through a historical lens, state power in the welfare state form does not consist merely in societal pacts over redistributive programs. The outputs of state power were indeed fundamentally different in Europe in historical comparison during these redistributive programmes’ ‘golden years’ of 1945-1973. But against pluralist, neo-marxist, and industrialist theories this chapter used the institutionalist theory developed to show the force of social institutions of state power in the consolidation and sustaining of welfare states. It focused on institutions of international politics of state building in particular. The contestation over nationalist and internationalist politics about the state of the late-19th century resulted in the consolidation of the first welfare states around the 1870s. Different organisational compromises (commonly, social pacts such as corporatism) to the politics of nationalism and internationalism characterise emerging European welfare states during this period, and contribute to the restructuring of the organisational architecture of absolutist and constitutional state power in world politics.Less
This chapter follows John Ruggie’s work in contesting the common IR assumption collapsing very different forms of state power into one. It distinguishes the welfare state form as a separate state type from absolutist and constitutional states by drawing on historical sociology. When looked at through a historical lens, state power in the welfare state form does not consist merely in societal pacts over redistributive programs. The outputs of state power were indeed fundamentally different in Europe in historical comparison during these redistributive programmes’ ‘golden years’ of 1945-1973. But against pluralist, neo-marxist, and industrialist theories this chapter used the institutionalist theory developed to show the force of social institutions of state power in the consolidation and sustaining of welfare states. It focused on institutions of international politics of state building in particular. The contestation over nationalist and internationalist politics about the state of the late-19th century resulted in the consolidation of the first welfare states around the 1870s. Different organisational compromises (commonly, social pacts such as corporatism) to the politics of nationalism and internationalism characterise emerging European welfare states during this period, and contribute to the restructuring of the organisational architecture of absolutist and constitutional state power in world politics.
Stuart Lowe
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422736
- eISBN:
- 9781447305514
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422736.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
Globalisation compelled the UK economy into a phase of rapid restructuring, turning away from the old industries in manufacturing and mining and towards a knowledge economy based around services. ...
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Globalisation compelled the UK economy into a phase of rapid restructuring, turning away from the old industries in manufacturing and mining and towards a knowledge economy based around services. This new work replaced mainly male full-time jobs with part-time female work. This reconfiguration brought with it a new welfare state paradigm that began to replace the Beveridge model with a ‘competition state’, a workfare system geared towards supporting directly efficient economic performance. A new social geography emerged with the services economy, which was located in suburbs and small towns, leaving behind declining inner cities in the heartlands of the ‘old’ economy. Two-earner households underpinned a new wave of suburban home ownership. There were thus significant complementarities between economic restructuring, welfare state reconfiguration and the further embedding of the home-owning society. Meanwhile, council housing began a rapid descent as manufacturing industries closed down. Home ownership began to play a prominent part in shaping people's welfare choices, especially after the mortgage market was reinvented, providing access to housing equity on a massive scale.Less
Globalisation compelled the UK economy into a phase of rapid restructuring, turning away from the old industries in manufacturing and mining and towards a knowledge economy based around services. This new work replaced mainly male full-time jobs with part-time female work. This reconfiguration brought with it a new welfare state paradigm that began to replace the Beveridge model with a ‘competition state’, a workfare system geared towards supporting directly efficient economic performance. A new social geography emerged with the services economy, which was located in suburbs and small towns, leaving behind declining inner cities in the heartlands of the ‘old’ economy. Two-earner households underpinned a new wave of suburban home ownership. There were thus significant complementarities between economic restructuring, welfare state reconfiguration and the further embedding of the home-owning society. Meanwhile, council housing began a rapid descent as manufacturing industries closed down. Home ownership began to play a prominent part in shaping people's welfare choices, especially after the mortgage market was reinvented, providing access to housing equity on a massive scale.
W. B. Yeats
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748622054
- eISBN:
- 9780748651993
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622054.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This chapter discusses the relationship between culture and ethnicity within W. B. Yeats's idea of ‘the Celt’. It is primarily focused on the 1890s and the early 1900s, and considers the role of ...
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This chapter discusses the relationship between culture and ethnicity within W. B. Yeats's idea of ‘the Celt’. It is primarily focused on the 1890s and the early 1900s, and considers the role of Yeats's Celticism within the political and cultural debates of that period. The chapter presents an account of Celticism that uses an approach which looks at the complicated interrelationships between culture and ethnicity within the four nations of the British Isles. It determines that Yeats's Celticism has its aesthetic bases in Arnold's Celtic essays and in London literary corruption, while its political roots are in the Irish nationalist tradition and in a Ruskinian anti-industrialism.Less
This chapter discusses the relationship between culture and ethnicity within W. B. Yeats's idea of ‘the Celt’. It is primarily focused on the 1890s and the early 1900s, and considers the role of Yeats's Celticism within the political and cultural debates of that period. The chapter presents an account of Celticism that uses an approach which looks at the complicated interrelationships between culture and ethnicity within the four nations of the British Isles. It determines that Yeats's Celticism has its aesthetic bases in Arnold's Celtic essays and in London literary corruption, while its political roots are in the Irish nationalist tradition and in a Ruskinian anti-industrialism.
Ian Brodie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496815118
- eISBN:
- 9781496815156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496815118.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
A history of off-Island governance and capital ownership has informed Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s self-definition of alterity. The counter-cultural movements of the early 1970s, which arose at the ...
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A history of off-Island governance and capital ownership has informed Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s self-definition of alterity. The counter-cultural movements of the early 1970s, which arose at the same time as the onset of post-industrialism and a subsequent, precipitous economic decline, brought new artistic media to express this sense of otherness: acid rock, alternative theatre, and underground comics among them. With his “Cape Breton Liberation Army,” Paul “Moose” MacKinnon created a platform for simultaneously exalting and deflating Cape Breton exceptionalism: a resistance militia whose plans after self-determination largely comprised playing pool and listening to blues music. This chapter traces the history of MacKinnon’s comic legacy within the Island’s attempted turn from an industrial to a cultural center, and challenges MacKinnon’s own assertion that he was never trying to be political.Less
A history of off-Island governance and capital ownership has informed Cape Breton, Nova Scotia’s self-definition of alterity. The counter-cultural movements of the early 1970s, which arose at the same time as the onset of post-industrialism and a subsequent, precipitous economic decline, brought new artistic media to express this sense of otherness: acid rock, alternative theatre, and underground comics among them. With his “Cape Breton Liberation Army,” Paul “Moose” MacKinnon created a platform for simultaneously exalting and deflating Cape Breton exceptionalism: a resistance militia whose plans after self-determination largely comprised playing pool and listening to blues music. This chapter traces the history of MacKinnon’s comic legacy within the Island’s attempted turn from an industrial to a cultural center, and challenges MacKinnon’s own assertion that he was never trying to be political.
Iwan Rhys Morus
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226542010
- eISBN:
- 9780226542003
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226542003.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific revolution, physics struggled at first to achieve ...
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As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific revolution, physics struggled at first to achieve legitimacy in the scientific community and culture at large. In fact, the term “physicist” did not appear in English until the 1830s. This book traces the emergence of this revolutionary science, demonstrating how a discipline that barely existed in 1800 came to be regarded a century later as the ultimate key to unlocking nature's secrets. A cultural history designed to provide a big-picture view, it ties advances in the field to the efforts of physicists who worked to win social acceptance for their research. Beginning the tale with the rise of physics from natural philosophy, the book chronicles the emergence of mathematical physics in France and its later export to England and Germany. It then elucidates the links between physics and industrialism, the technology of statistical mechanics, and the establishment of astronomical laboratories and precision measurement tools. The book ends on the eve of the First World War, when physics had firmly established itself in both science and society.Less
As recently as two hundred years ago, physics as we know it today did not exist. Born in the early nineteenth century during the second scientific revolution, physics struggled at first to achieve legitimacy in the scientific community and culture at large. In fact, the term “physicist” did not appear in English until the 1830s. This book traces the emergence of this revolutionary science, demonstrating how a discipline that barely existed in 1800 came to be regarded a century later as the ultimate key to unlocking nature's secrets. A cultural history designed to provide a big-picture view, it ties advances in the field to the efforts of physicists who worked to win social acceptance for their research. Beginning the tale with the rise of physics from natural philosophy, the book chronicles the emergence of mathematical physics in France and its later export to England and Germany. It then elucidates the links between physics and industrialism, the technology of statistical mechanics, and the establishment of astronomical laboratories and precision measurement tools. The book ends on the eve of the First World War, when physics had firmly established itself in both science and society.
