The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kwass
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Consumer Activism ◽  
Ethical Consumerism ◽  
Consumer Revolution ◽  
Plantation Slavery ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
Philosophical Debates

The production, acquisition, and use of consumer goods defines our daily lives, and yet consumerism is seen as increasingly controversial. Movements for sustainable and ethical consumerism are gaining momentum alongside an awareness of how our choices in the marketplace can affect public issues. How did we get here? This volume advances a bold new interpretation of the 'consumer revolution' of the eighteenth century, when European elites, middling classes, and even certain labourers purchased unprecedented quantities of clothing, household goods, and colonial products. Michael Kwass adopts a global perspective that incorporates the expansion of European empires, the development of world trade, and the rise of plantation slavery in the Americas. Kwass analyses the emergence of Enlightenment material cultures, contentious philosophical debates on the morality of consumption, and new forms of consumer activism to offer a fresh interpretation of the politics of consumption in the age of abolitionism and the Atlantic Revolutions.

scholarly journals Moralizing Postcolonial Consumer Society: Fair Trade in the Netherlands, 1964–1997

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter van Dam
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
The South ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Consumer Activism ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractDecolonization challenged people across the globe to define their place in a new postcolonial order. This challenge was felt in international political and economic affairs, but it also affected daily lives across the globe. The history of fair trade activism as seen from the Netherlands highlights how citizens in the North grappled to position themselves in a postcolonial consumer society. Interventions by fair trade activists connected debates about the morals of their society to the consequences of decolonization. They reacted to the imbalances of the global market in the wake of decolonization, joining critics from the South in demanding more equitable global relations. It was around this issue of “fair trade” that a transnational coalition of moderate and more radical activists emerged after the 1960s. This coalition held widely dissimilar views regarding the politics of the left and the use of consumer activism. The analysis of their interventions demonstrates that during the postwar era attempts at transforming the global market were inextricably interwoven with visions of a postcolonial order.

scholarly journals PERSPEKTIF GLOBAL PENYELESAIAN SENGKETA INVESTASI DI INDONESIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Syaifuddin
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Second Law ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
International Agreement ◽  
Law System ◽  
World Trade Organization Agreement ◽  
Conflict Solution

UUPM No.25/2007 is a yuridical consequence from World Trade Organization agreement (WTO) ratification. TRIMSs, aims to make investation law, including law on nvestation conflict solution hich is accordance with foreign investor tendency in global perspective namely; firts, the content has law characters which are definite, just, efficient; second, law spirit based directing the goverment and foreign investor to solve the investation conflict through national and international agreement  rather than court. The crisis of court institution in Indonesia must be solved by building court law system refering to pancasila as Indonesian investation law goal. That has been a requirement to form formal regulation for ideal investation conflict solution in local and international perspective<br />Pembentukan UUPM No. 25/2007 adalah konsekwensi yuridis dari ratifikasi Perjanjian WTO. TRIMs, yang bertujuan menciptakan hukum investasi, termasuk hukum penyelesaian sengketa investasi, yang sesuai dengan kehendak investor asing dalam perspektif global, yaitu: pertama, mengandung karakter hukum yang berkepastian, berkeadilan, dan berefisiensi; dan kedua, berlandaskan spirit hukum yang mengarahkan pemerintah dan penanaman modal asing menyelesaikan sengketa investasi melalui arbitrase internasional daripada pengadilan bahkan arbitrase nasional di Indonesia. Krisis lembaga peradilan di Indonesia harus diselesaikan dengan cara membangun sistem hukum peradilan dengan mengacu pada Pancasila sebagai cita hukum investasi Indonesia. Hal tersebut adalah  suatu syarat bagi terbentuknya aturan hukum penyelesaian sengketa investasi yang serasi dalam perspektif global dan lokal (Indonesia).

scholarly journals The phenomenon of cyclical fluctuations on the pork market - global perspective

Management ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 382-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Stępień ◽  
Jan Polcyn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Cyclical Fluctuations ◽  
The World ◽  
Pig Meat ◽  
Country Specific

Summary The aim of publication was to recognize the characteristics and morphology of today’s hog cycle. The hypothesis was that known in the economy since the second half of the nineteenth century hog cycle is also a typical phenomenon in the contemporary economy. It is also claimed that cyclical supply changes of pig meat are not synchronized between countries. Fluctuations in production are country-specific and are influenced by local conditions. While in the case of pork prices there is a characteristic broad convergence of cycle between countries. Development of world trade exchange and economic integration of groups of countries lead to uniformity of cyclical changes in prices. The study included the world economy and eight selected countries with the largest share in the global production and/or foreign trade. The time range of empirical analysis (analyzing fluctuations in supply and prices) concerned the period 1991-2012.

scholarly journals Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and sleep in the daily lives of World Trade Center responders.

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica R. Dietch ◽  
Camilo J. Ruggero ◽  
Keke Schuler ◽  
Daniel J. Taylor ◽  
Benjamin J. Luft ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms ◽  
Trade Center

scholarly journals The Perspective of Total Lighting as a Key Factor to Increase the Sustainability of Strategic Activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Peña-García ◽  
Ferdinando Salata
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Physical Phenomenon ◽  
Well Being ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Mathematical Framework ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Key Factor

In the last decades, lighting has evolved from a branch of engineering ensuring safety and performance in indoor and outdoor installations, to a key discipline interacting with a wide spectrum of fields and having a deep impact on our daily lives. Although this evolution also applies to other areas of knowledge, the special features of lighting make its potential and also its limitations different. It is not the typical field where a well-established mathematical framework allows a departure from well-defined input and identifying clear effects and conclusions. The reason is that lighting is a field dealing with the interaction between a physical phenomenon and a physiological and psychological system, the human being. In addition to the complexity of its basis, the relationship between lighting and sustainability has become stronger in recent years. This relationship is bi-directional in some cases: on one hand, advanced societies require more and more complex lighting installations, which means high energy consumption, use of raw materials, financial costs, manufacturing and maintenance processes, waste and emissions to the atmosphere. On the other hand, good lighting has an impact on issues like productivity, well-being, happiness, disease avoidance, safety, and many other qualitative aspects whose direct or indirect impact on sustainability is remarkable. This work will analyze how lighting can give answers to questions related to sustainability, not only from the classic topics of energy consumption and waste management, but from a wider and global perspective. The results of these works are analyzed, and the basis of the new framework of total lighting, discussed.

scholarly journals The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Steam Engine ◽  
Energy Prices

This chapter presents the text of a lecture on the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain given at the British Academy's 2009 Keynes Lecture in Economics. This text suggests that the Industrial Revolution was Britain's response to the global economy that emerged after 1500 and that Britain's success in world trade resulted in one of the most urbanised economies in Europe with unusually high wages and cheap energy prices. The text here also highlights the contribution of Britain in the invention of the steam engine and the cotton spinning machines and in scientific discoveries relating to atmospheric pressure.

scholarly journals Functionalist explanation of spacetime

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Radmila Jovanovic-Kozlowski
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Functional Role ◽  
Physical Theory ◽  
Classical Mechanics ◽  
Fundamental Theory ◽  
Emergent Spacetime ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
New Research ◽  
Philosophical Debates ◽  
Real Challenge

In contemporary physics, from General relativity and Quantum mechanics to new research programs of Quantum gravity, we can find a vast variety of spacetime structures, which makes the interpretation of this concept a real challenge. Recently, a group of authors advanced a new interpretation of spacetime called ?spacetime functionalism?, with the idea that spacetime should be defined via its functional role in the physical theory, in other words, ?spacetime is what spacetime does?. A material field or an object are spatiotemporal if they play a defined role in a physical theory. The approach is meant to be widely applicable, from classical mechanics to possible new theories of Quantum gravity, where spacetime might not appear at the fundamental theory level. Functionalism can be well combined with the emergent spacetime. It should also shed a new light on traditional philosophical debates between substantivists and relationists and between realists and anti-realists.

scholarly journals The Pros and Cons of Adopting Technology as a Business Pilot: Global Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afenya Millicent Selase ◽  
Aphu Elvis Selase
Keyword(s):  
Profit Maximization ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Multimedia Software ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Business World ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Business Efficiency

Technology has revolutionized human society. A complex scientific knowledge that takes various forms is technology. It is also referred to as a set of meticulous knowledge used to create tools process actions and extricate materials to make work easy. Technology includes equipment such as computers, mobile phones, multimedia, software, games and apps, these are simple tools individuals use in their daily lives to make life comfortable and luxurious. Technology comes in various forms of such as mechanical, electrical, industrial or manufacturing and medical technology.   Any establishment set as a going concern for profit maximization is a business. Technology has various benefits which helps businesses achieve its ultimate goal, thus, maximize profit. Technological infrastructure’s impact on business efficiency and effectiveness is inevitable. There is a correlation between technology and business profit maximization be it positive or negative, because it has various impacts on businesses. The question is, does the type of technology adopted affect the business? The various types of technology indicate it has different purpose, to be efficient it needs to be used effectively. Today’s business world has been massively influenced by internet technology adoption. The utilization among business is inescapable since technology is rapidly regenerating global production, work and business methods, trade and consumption patterns of enterprises and consumers therefore, the paper is to evaluate if there is the need to adopt a particular technology that best fit a business industry.

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