Immigration and the Shape of Globalization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret E. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Trade Barriers ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Number Of Firms ◽  
At Home

This book explores two questions about immigration and globalization: why immigration, especially for those with fewer skills (low-skill immigration), is much more restricted today than it was in the nineteenth century or even in the immediate post-World War II period, and why politicians today are willing to let their constituents compete with foreign labor overseas but not at home. Restrictions on low-skill immigration are even more puzzling when compared to policies governing trade and foreign direct investment. The same wealthy countries that have put immigration restrictions in place have significantly lowered trade barriers, including those on low-skill-labor-intensive goods such as clothing, toys, and electronics. The book considers how trade and firm mobility affect the number of firms that use low-skill labor, and thus affect the level of support for low-skill immigration.

U.S. Policy toward Foreign Direct Investment

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Kudrle ◽  
Davis B. Bobrow
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Process Factors ◽  
Perceived Costs

Foreign investment policy is an increasingly important part of overall foreign policy. The authors investigate the substance of U.S. outgoing foreign direct investment (OFDI) and incoming foreign direct investment (IFDI) policy in terms of a small set of policy values and process factors. The policy values are domestic prosperity, national autonomy, and national security. The process factors are ideological consonance, impact transparency, the diffusion and concentration of perceived costs and benefits, and the political capacity of groups and institutions. These considerations illuminate the relative stability in both areas of policy since World War II, and help to explain the changes that did take place. The paper concludes with a forecast that, despite the oft-heard prediction that economic nationalism is on the increase, U.S. policies toward foreign investment will remain much the same during the eighties as they have been Since World War II.

Political Affiliation

Yiddish ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shandler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Affiliation ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
World War ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines the role that Yiddish played, beginning in the late nineteenth century, in many Jews’ participation in progressive politics, including trade unionism, socialism, anarchism, labor Zionism, and communism. The Yiddishism engendered by various political movements became, for some Jews, an ideological end in itself. Their commitment to maintaining and transforming the language has served as a definitional practice of Jewish solidarity. In the post–World War II era, Yiddish has been implicated in new political uses by Hasidim, by new generations of progressive Jews, and by non-Jews in Europe engaged in coming to terms with the destruction of European Jewry.

scholarly journals INTRODUCTION

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-13
Author(s):  
Mike Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
North America ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Yale University ◽  
World War ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
University Library

The 45th Annual Preconference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries was titled “Ebb & Flow: The Migration of Collections to American Libraries.” From June 21–June 24, 2004, on the campus of Yale University, speakers addressed a variety of topics around this theme. Plenary speakers addressed the migration of books to North America during the colonial period, the development of university library collections in the nineteenth century, the epic collecting of J. Pierpont Morgan, and the post-World War II antiquarian book trade. Alice Prochaska, Yale University librarian, opened the conference with . . .

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-168
Author(s):  
Daniel Thomas Cook
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
World War ◽  
Moral Ideal ◽  
Post World War Ii

The conclusion connects themes woven through the previous chapters with the approaches and understandings of present-day children’s market researchers in order to argue that the dynamics of the moral project of childhood continue to inform contemporary understandings and approaches to the child. For one, the rise of the “creative child” in the post–World War II era repeats and extends the elements of taste central to nineteenth-century dynamics surrounding the production of the bourgeois child. As well, mothers continue to be implicated in the fabrication of children’s selves and interiorities largely through the work of provisioning of goods in ways that are responsive to children’s presumed and articulated subjectivities. The kind of child crafted out of an admixture of Christian conception, social class practice, and maternal accountability comprises the essential elements of a contemporary dominant, moral ideal. It is an approach that hopefully invites consideration of its ubiquity across domains rather than its exceptionality.

Commentary: The Ottoman Menace in Post-Habsburg Historiography

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Todorova
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Time Span ◽  
World War ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Usage

Threevery fine papers deal with the Ottoman menace as metaphor in what we now designate as the post-Habsburg period, that discreet time span between the closing decades of the nineteenth century and World War II, with some forays into the contemporary period. In all three papers, the Ottoman (or the Turk, as was the current usage) served as a foil for contemporary grievances. It is not really the “Ottoman menace” they are dealing with, but, accordingly, the communist, socialist, working-class, Jewish, Serbian, or other “menaces” that are additionally demonized by introducing the analogy to a well-known and popular symbol. In the apt observation of the Austrian playwright J. P. Ostland, quoted by Maureen Healy, this was the present packaged as the past. It needs to be stressed that even the phrase “Ottoman menace” is a neologism form the post-World War II period, when scholarly works insisted correctly on a distinction between “Ottoman” as an imperial designator and “Turk” as an ethnic and later a national one. Although this distinction is justified for analytical purposes, it introduces a tinge of anachronism that belies one of the primary goals of history writing.

Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Electrification: Between Colonialism and Nationalism, 1882–1952

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
CHENXIAO XIA
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese Colonialism ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective

This article traces the history of foreign direct investment in China’s electricity industry from 1882 to 1952 through the conflict between colonialism and nationalism. China’s electrification started with foreign direct investment in colonial enclaves: settlements, annexed territories, and leaseholds. Foreign direct investment contributed the majority of China’s power supply, but the penetration to China’s hinterland had faced the hurdle of nationalism on the part of both the Chinese government and the business community. Exceptions in Taiwan and Manchuria were related to Japanese colonialism, which peaked during the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). After World War II, domestication was implemented by the Chinese government. This article provides a new perspective on multinationals by delineating between inward and expatriate foreign direct investment in the Chinese context.

scholarly journals Origins of United States Direct Investment in France

1974 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 382-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles P. Kindleberger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii

Most analyses of American direct investment abroad focus on the post-World War II era, and on manufacturing. Professor Kindleberger examines United States direct investment in a range of undertakings in France — finance, insurance, trade, marketing, services, and manufacturing — and concentrates on pre-1950 developments.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom F. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Interdisciplinary Methods ◽  
Twenty First Century

This closing chapter explores how the appreciation of lecture culture has been conditioned by the priorities of three distinct moments of interpretation: the final decades of the nineteenth century; the post-World War II period; and the first decades of the Twenty First Century. It reflects on how interdisciplinary methods and new critical priorities offer to promise the discovery of new complexities and truths beneath the problematic yet seductive myths of the nineteenth-century lyceum.

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