Silk textiles, crisis and adaptative strategies in Catalonia, 1770–1850s (Barcelona and Manresa)

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Àngels Solà Parera ◽  
Llorenç Ferrer-Alós ◽  
Lluís Virós Pujolà ◽  
Yoshiko Yamamichi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Cotton Industry ◽  
Silk Industry ◽  
Silk Production ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article compares the impact of the economic crisis of 1787–1832, including the war and the loss of colonial markets, on the silk industry in Barcelona and Manresa, the two main centres of silk production in eighteenth-century Catalonia. In particular, it explores how families adopted different strategies in adapting to the crisis. Some moved into different sectors, including the emerging cotton industry, sometimes accompanied by geographical mobility. Others innovated by manufacturing specialised products, such as ribbons and handkerchiefs, often taking advantage of technological innovations in the textile industry. The article also offers some reflections on the role of women in these adaptative strategies, as far as the limited evidence allows.

Administrative elites and the crisis: what lies ahead for the senior civil service in Greece?

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calliope Spanou
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Civil Service ◽  
Civil Service Reform ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Elites ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

The nature of the relationship between the public administration and politics and the subsequent role of the administration appear to be incompatible with the emergence of an administrative elite. After analysing the reasons for this incompatibility, the article explores the impact of the measures taken in the wake of the economic crisis on the civil service and its reform, and also the prospects for the development of a senior civil service. The key, and also the challenge, to any change in this direction remains the rebalancing of the relationship between the public administration and politics. Points for practitioners What might interest practitioners is the issue of the conditions of effectiveness of civil service reform in times of economic crisis and significant pressure.

Sugar Rush: Sugar and Science in the British Caribbean

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-150
Author(s):  
Nicole A. Jacoberger
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Foreign Competition ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
A Site

This article examines the contrasting evolution in sugar refining in Jamaica and Barbados incentivized by Mercantilist policies, changes in labor systems, and competition from foreign sugar revealing the role of Caribbean plantations as a site for experimentation from the eighteenth through mid-nineteenth century. Britain's seventeenth- and eighteenth-century protectionist policies imposed high duties on refined cane-sugar from the colonies, discouraging colonies from exporting refined sugar as opposed to raw. This system allowed Britain to retain control over trade and commerce and provided exclusive sugar sales to Caribbean sugar plantations. Barbadian planters swiftly gained immense wealth and political power until Jamaica and other islands produced competitive sugar. The Jamaica Assembly invested heavily in technological innovations intended to improve efficiency, produce competitive sugar in a market that eventually opened to foreign competition such as sugar beet, and increase profits to undercut losses from duties. They valued local knowledge, incentivizing everyone from local planters to chemists, engineers, and science enthusiasts to experiment in Jamaica and publish their findings. These publications disseminated important findings throughout Britain and its colonies, revealing the significance of the Caribbean as a site for local experimentation and knowledge.

scholarly journals Newly qualified doctors’ perceived effects of assistantship alignment with first post: a longitudinal questionnaire study

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. e023992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie E Wells ◽  
Alison Bullock ◽  
Lynn V Monrouxe
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Study ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Preparedness For Practice ◽  
Experience Effects ◽  
Perceived Effects ◽  
The Impact

PurposeGrowing evidence supports the role of student assistantships in enhancing graduates’ preparedness for practice. However, there is limited evidence concerning the impact of aligning assistantships with graduates’ first doctor post. The aims of our study were to determine newly-qualified doctors’ views on the value their assistantship experience, effects on anxiety levels, confidence and preparedness for increased responsibilities, exploring change over time and whether effects differ according to assistantship alignment.DesignWe conducted a longitudinal cross-sectional online questionnaire study examining experiences of aligned and non-aligned assistantships across the transition from medical student to newly-qualified doctor. The questionnaire was distributed to final year medical students within Wales, UK (n=351) and those commencing their first post in Wales, UK (n=150) in June 2015 at Time 1 (T1), and repeated in September 2015 (1 month following transition, T2) and January 2016 (T3).ResultsResponse rates at T1 were 50% (n=251, aligned=139, non-aligned=112), T2 36% (n=179, aligned=83, non-aligned=96) and T3 28% (n=141, aligned=69, non-aligned=72): 15% (n=73, aligned=36, non-aligned=37) completed all questionnaires. Paired longitudinal analysis was undertaken where possible. Significant differences were observed between participants on aligned and non-aligned assistantships in terms of the value they place on their assistantship experiences, their anxiety, confidence levels and preparedness for responsibility.ConclusionAlthough not sustained, aligned assistantships seem to provide graduates with additional benefits during the August transition. Further work is required to establish what it is about the aligned assistantship programme that works and why.

scholarly journals Workplace Ostracism and Knowledge Hiding: The Mediating Role of Job Tension

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidra Riaz ◽  
Yusen Xu ◽  
Shahid Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Textile Industry ◽  
Employee Loyalty ◽  
Job Tension ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Workplace Ostracism ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Hiding Behavior ◽  
Knowledge Hiding ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the impact of workplace ostracism on employees’ knowledge hiding behavior. Based on the conservation of resource theory, this study seeks to identify the effects of job tension as a mediator and the moderating effect of employee loyalty. Using a time-lagged research design, we collected the data from 392 employees of the textile industry. Results indicate that workplace ostracism positively influences the knowledge hiding behavior such as evasive hiding and playing dumb, whereas it is not significantly related with rationalized hiding. More specifically, workplace ostracism increases the feeling of job tension, while job tension mediates the relationship between workplace ostracism and knowledge hiding. In addition, we found that workplace ostracism demolished the benefits of employee loyalty, as high workplace ostracism more strongly influences the feeling of job tension. We also discussed the theoretical and practical implications.

scholarly journals Revolt, Testimony, Petition: Artisanal Protests in Colonial Andhra

2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (S9) ◽  
pp. 107-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Potukuchi Swarnalatha
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conditions Of Work ◽  
Socioeconomic Structures

This paper examines the form, content, and role of petitions in the context of protests occasioned by the handloom weavers of colonial Andhra, particularly the northern districts of the northern Coromandel region, between 1770 and 1820. Minor and major protests and revolts by weavers erupted with increasing frequency from around the middle of the eighteenth century, whenever their socioeconomic structures and conditions of work and trade were under threat from the old and new elites, as well as from the commercial interests of the colonial state. On these occasions, weavers expressed their grievances through petitions and representations, either in combination with other strategies or independently. These petitions therefore offer opportunities to study and identify the economic and social conditions that prompted weavers to resort to collective action. Careful analyses of the petitions yield considerable insights with respect to the causes of the protests; their spatial and social diffusion; the social profile of contending parties, and their mentalities; the changing organizational structure of the textile industry; the petitions' consequences; and, finally, the attitude of the colonial state towards these petitions.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF EXCHANGE PROPORTIONS IN THE INFLATION AND ECONOMIC CRISES

2014 ◽  
pp. 90-99
Author(s):  
P. V. Ushanov
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
World Market ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Impact

The article terminates the author's series of publications on the impact of system of stereotypes of behaviour – "success formula" - on the development of phases of the life cycle of the socio-economic systems [7-11]. The author argues in favor of the view that lifecycle of any object of management is a complex spiral consisting of 10 phases, each of which, in turn, can be regarded as a separate life cycle. Because of the stereotypes of behaviour, prevailing during previous lifecycle phases, a change of lifecycle phases often leads to a crisis and is accompanied by painful correction of exchange proportions. The author motivates his conclusion that the modern economic crisis is caused by the distortion of exchange proportions. The indexes of changes in exchange proportions are proposed to use as an indicator of stability of the world market. Proposals on overcoming the crisis are made.

scholarly journals Culture language and foreign names adaptation during the pre-modern Romanian

Diacronia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Gînsac ◽  
Mădălina Ungureanu
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Specific Culture ◽  
The Impact

Translation is an act of “negotiation” between two or more cultural systems and languages, being mediated by a translator and carrying both the traces of the mediator and those of the translation context. We aim at investigating the impact of culture languages on foreign names translation into Romanian at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the next. We consider several types of situations. Sometimes, the culture language is also the expression of the reference universe of names, even if they occur in texts whose sources were written in other languages than the respective culture language; in this case, the language of the source text plays the role of an intermediary. In some other instances, the culture language plays the role of a model that determines the name form in the target language, without being directly involved in the act of translation. Translators from the pre-modern stage of Romanian have often substituted the forms from different vernacular languages such as German, French or Italian by a variant received under the influence of a specific culture language, i.e. Greek or Latin.

Decorating houses: style, taste and the business of decoration

2018 ◽  
pp. 122-167
Author(s):  
Conor Lucey
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Interior Decoration ◽  
Real Estate Markets ◽  
Key Topics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
House Building ◽  
Printed Sources

Reflecting on the separation of house building and house decorating in the historiography of the eighteenth-century town house, this chapter explores the role of the building artisan in determining the form and appearance of the urban domestic interior. Of particular importance here is the business of decoration: the impact of decorators, such as decorative plasterers and timber joiners, as speculative builders and property developers; and the standardization of interior decoration in the form of pre-fabricated ornament. Key topics include the dissemination of architectural tastes through the agency of immigrant artisan populations; the role of books and magazines in shaping vocabularies of decorative taste; and the creative adaptation from printed sources. Focusing on the artisan’s negotiation and interpretation of the neo-classical (or ‘Adam’) style, this chapter also considers how degrees of separation from the source of that ornamental language fostered distinct dialects in towns and cities across Britain, Ireland and North America. Collectively, the topics of chapter make a case for the artisan as a key agent of fashionable taste in elite real estate markets.

The Effect of Work Engagement and Job Embeddedness on Turnover Intention Moderates by Job Performance

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 847-849
Author(s):  
Theresia Cynthia ◽  
Laksmi Sito Dwi Irvianti
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Job Embeddedness ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
The Impact

One of the essential resources in an organization is their human resources which are called employee. Every organization needs good human resource management to manage the relationship and the role of employee to achieve organization’s goal effectively and efficiently. The object of this research was PT. Argo Pantes Tbk that runs its business in textile industry. The purposes of this research was analyzing the impact of Work Engagement and Job Embeddedness to Turnover Intention at PT. Argo Pantes Tbk, partially and simultaneously, and also to analyze the role of Job Performance, as moderating variable. Data of this research were collected through interview and spreading the quesionnaire to 95 employees of PT. Argo Pantes Tbk as respondents by using simple random sampling as sampling technique. The analysis method used were simple and multiple regression and also residual analysis method. The research found that Work Engagement and Job embeddedness have significant impact to Turnover Intention, partially and simultaneously, and Job Performance will moderate the correlation between Work Engagement, Job Embeddedness and Turnover Intention.

The Intelligible as a New World? Wikipedia versus the Eighteenth-Century Encyclopédie

Paragraph ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanja Perovic
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New World ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Online Encyclopedia ◽  
The Impact

For some time now, certain theorists have been urging us to move beyond text-based understandings of culture to consider the impact of new media on the structure and organization of knowledge. This article, however, reconsiders the usual priority given to digital media by comparing Wikipedia, the free, user-led online Encyclopedia, with Diderot and D'Alembert's eighteenth-century Encyclopédie. It begins by suggesting that the dichotomy between information system and text is not sufficient for describing the differences between the two. It then considers more closely the type of critical thinking presupposed by the Encyclopédie. It concludes by raising the question of the role of judgement in making sense of any encyclopedia in a modern world in which knowledge systems only coexist on the condition of being partially blind to one another.

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