Manufacturing Industries

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...

Neil Ewins' study of the Staffordshire potteries in a period of great global change traces how ceramics production has been affected by globalisati...

The USA has often failed to capitalise on its technological breakthroughs. This analysis of the weaknesses and strengths of US high technology warn...

What makes genuine leather genuine? What makes real things real? In an age of virtual reality, veneers, synthetics, plastics, fakes, and knockoffs,...

Originally published in 1999 after a decade of research and extensive interviews with some of Toyota's top executives, this book examines organizat...

Despite increasing academic interest in both the study of masculinity and the history of consumption, there are still few published studies that br...

The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific r...

The pharmaceutical industry has long and vehemently insisted that it has the willingness, the dedication, and the ability to police itself to insur...

To the surprise of many, regionally embedded clusters of small to medium sized businesses have continued to exist in spite of industrialisation and...

The fashion industry is a multibillion-dollar global industry with a variety of organizational structures and a multitude of challenges. Such scope...

2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner: Reference, History, and Scholarship A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first takin...

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the ...

The fashion industry is a multibillion-dollar global industry with a variety of organizational structures and a multitude of challenges. Such scope...

This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries boug...

The Magic of a Name tells the story of the first 40 years of Britain’s most prestigious manufacturer - Rolls-Royce. Beginning with the historic me...

"Monitoring Sweatshops" offers the first comprehensive assessment of efforts to address and improve conditions in garment factories. Jill Esbenshad...

Future-proof your firm’s supply chains with a renewed focus on resilience In Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for...

The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part ...

Here is a great introduction to the remarkable mind of Shigeo Shingo, indisputably one of the great forces in manufacturing. In this book Dr. Shing...

The Reo Motor Car Company operated in Lansing, Michigan, for seventy years, and encouraged its thousands of workers to think of themselves as part ...

How NAFTA has reshaped the production of clothing in North America

The Routledge Handbook of Tea Tourism provides comprehensive and cutting-edge insights into global tea tourism. With contributions from leading sch...

Monitoring Sweatshops offers the first comprehensive assessment of efforts to address and improve conditions in garment factories. Jill Esbenshade ...

Sheffield's Industries: Cutlery, Silver and Edge Tools

The movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structur...

The movement for a shorter workweek that once defined the labor movement in the United States was largely displaced by the new corporatist structur...

Nearly every country that produces cars views the automobile industry as strategically important because of its direct economic significance and be...

"An innovative book for an innovative topic." Charles Hampden-Turner Like the subject matter it covers, Clusters of Creativity is innovative and o...

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci, in 1995 because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glam...

In its 104-year history, Lincoln Electric Company has managed to sustain its status as the world's leader in welding technology despite intense dom...

Long a bastion of Jewish labor power, garment unions provided financial and political aid essential to founding and building the nation of Israel. ...

Throughout history, human societies have struggled to ensure that all people have access to sufficient food to lead active and healthy lives. Despi...

In large cities in developed countries, the share of manufacturing has declined drastically in the last decades and the share of service has grown ...