Manufacturing Industries

Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile production and trade. Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in...

This pest control guide is a project of the Southern Nursery IPM Working Group (SNIPM) and collaborators. Featuring 25 tables and 14 graphs, this g...

In Morocco today, the idea of female labourers is generally frowned upon. Yet despite this, many women are beginning to find work in factories. ...

"A brilliant and beautiful book, the mature work of a lifetime, must reading for students of the globalization debate."---Tom Hayden"Slaves to Fash...

The author presents a comprehensive picture of the furniture manufacturer's marketing policies and the framework of the industry out of which marke...

Stuart A. Rosenfeld presents a timely analysis of the problems the United States and other industrialized countries face as they adjust from econom...

The food industry is among the most competitive and globally-linked of all business sectors. Plunkett's Food Industry Almanac will be your guide to...

On economies of scale during the nineteenth century, much is assumed, but little is known. This study, first published in 1985, seeks to close this...

Manufacturing, like other industries, is rising to the challenges imposed by aggressive consumer demands and the need for cost-effective processing...

Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market trends that are redraw...

Developing an ISO 13485-Certified Quality Management System: An Implementation Guide for the Medical-Device Industry details the lessons learned fr...

Patient self-reported data has become increasingly important in today's clinical trials. Trials in some disease indications rely upon patient recor...

This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines. It traces the changing productio...

This volume explains cleaning of cotton after blow room treatment and individualization process in conventional card including functions related to...

The explosive growth of the Japanese electronics industry continues to be driven by a combination of market forces and the unique characteristics o...

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book reviews public a...

The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book reviews public a...

Written by experts on innovation and growth, this book provides the necessary tools to systematically develop and sustain profitable innovation pip...

As innovation moves from the lab to the market, a new research phase begins for the entrepreneur: the market research phase.Inspired by a new techn...

Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and ...

This book reviews the experience of the textile and apparel sectors over the post-war period. An econometric study of the cost structure of the ind...

As innovation moves from the lab to the market, a new research phase begins for the entrepreneur: the market research phase.Inspired by a new techn...

A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichua...

This book seeks to enlighten two grey areas of industrial historiography. Although Bengal industries were globally dominant on the eve of the indus...

This thesis analyzes four individual corporate finance-related research objectives on the fashion and leather accessories industry. The first two s...

The emergence and growing trend of inter-firm alliances between indigenous oil companies and foreign international oil companies in the Nigerian oi...

The global electronics industry is one of the most innovation-driven and technology-intensive sectors in the contemporary world economy. From semic...

In this fascinating history, Jeffrey Rothfeder tells how, from a simple idea - the outgrowth of a handful of peppers planted on an isolated island ...

The effect Lean Manufacturing programs have on profit and loss statements during the early months of their implementation often causes them to be v...

This book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mai...

Compaction of powder constituents—both active ingredient and excipients—is examined to ensure consistent and reproducible disintegration and disper...

Building Ships, Building a Nation examines the rise and fall, during the rule of Park Chung Hee (1961-79), of the combative labor union at the Kore...

Collaborative Creativity is a powerful methodology for groups that uses short bursts of creative challenges to help people go beyond rational/consc...