'A Flourishing Seaport': Dundee Harbour and the Making of the Industrial Town, c.1815-1850

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-198
Author(s):  
Louise Miskell ◽  
William Kenefick
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Town

Hutton as an Author

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan E. Whyman
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Industrial Town

Reading and writing were cornerstones of the lives of self-educated rough diamonds like Hutton. He is a perfect example of the dreaded rising author, who wrote for money, without education or status. His writings reveal new modes of authorship and the literary culture of an industrial town. Chapter 6 appraises his work by examining 70 periodical reviews of Hutton’s 15 books. Based on personal experience, they mixed history, travelogues, and life writing. Though they suited the nation’s thirst for entertainment and useful knowledge, Hutton has not been recognized as a new kind of writer, who produced unlearned books for a commercial age. His blunt style and breach of polite norms horrified the literary establishment. But his accessible prose satisfied new audiences and led to alternative yardsticks of literary taste. Hutton thus had an impact on two contrasting groups of readers, and helped put the English Midlands on the national literary map.

Cholera on the Continent and in America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Geographic Scope ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Fernand Braudel

While describing the peculiarities of cholera myths and riots from Asiatic Russia to Quebec, 1831–7, this chapter emphasizes the remarkable similarities across national and linguistic divides, oceans, and political regimes. The chapter argues first that this pan-regional mental landscape with the poor and marginal lashing out against elites and the medical profession cannot be explained by political events, regimes, or other causes particular to local settings. Secondly, these beliefs and struggles, instead of fading with successive waves of cholera, continued in places such as Russia, parts of Eastern Europe, Spain, and Italy. Moreover, their geographic scope and violence could increase, as with the total destruction of the industrial town of Hughesofka (today Donetsk) and riotous crowds reaching 10,000 in Astrakhan in 1892, murdering governors, counts, and physicians. As Fernand Braudel taught us long ago, pan-regional phenomena cannot be explained by local events.

North and South

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Sally Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Authority ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Middle Class Woman ◽  
Class Woman ◽  
And Gender ◽  
North And South ◽  
Obedience To Authority

`She tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.’ North and South is a novel about rebellion. Moving from the industrial riots of discontented millworkers through to the unsought passions of a middle-class woman, and from religious crises of conscience to the ethics of naval mutiny, it poses fundamental questions about the nature of social authority and obedience. Through the story of Margaret Hale, the middle-class southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skilfully explores issues of class and gender in the conflict between Margaret’s ready sympathy with the workers and her growing attraction to the charismatic mill ownder, John Thornton. This new revised and expanded edition sets the novel in the context of Victorian social and medical debate.

Analysis of the Characteristics of Modern German-Style Architecture in Fangzi, a Modern Town along the Jiaoji Railway

2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 6453-6456
Author(s):  
Xiao Lin Zhu ◽  
Chang Jiang Liu ◽  
Juan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Industrial Town

Fangzi, a century town, born because of the jiaoji railway, shows modern buildings and the unique historical and cultural landscape as a industrial town along the jiaoji railway. It preserved basic integrity of the modern German-style architecture. This paper based on the site visiting at modern German-style architectures in Fangzi, review the historical background of the Fangzi region, in order to tease out the main features of modern German-style architecture in Fangzi.

Human resources competencies: a key scale to assess HRCs, including items in knowledge business, functional expertise and managing change

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managing Change ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Appropriate Scale ◽  
Hr Competencies

Purpose The purpose was to produce a standardized tool in the form of a questionnaire to measure HR competencies Design/methodology/approach The authors collected data from 234 managers and experts in human resources of selected firms existing in the Yazd Industrial Town. A questionnaire was developed to assess HRCs. Findings The paper produced a key scale for assessing HRCs in three dimensions: knowledge business, functional expertise and managing change. Two items of the original 33 were dropped as they were found to be unreliable Originality/value The authors believed the developed questionnaire can be used as an appropriate scale for measuring HRCs in future research and also in organizations in Iran.

An introduction to the industrial town’s safety management (ITSM) system

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Hossein Ebrahimi ◽  
Seyedeh Melika Kharghani Moghadam
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Safety Management System ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
System Objective

BACKGROUND: In industrial towns, the dangers of each industry also poses a threat to other industries due to the proximity of different industries to each other. So there is a need for a safety management system. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to introduce a management system for managing the safety of industrial towns. METHODOLOGY: This cross-sectional and qualitative study was conducted in three main phases: (1) Identify the elements of the safety management systems using literature review, (2) Screening and determining useful elements using Delphi technique and (3) Determining the structure of safety management system. RESULTS: Participation of the industries and their compliance with the standards were considered as the system foundation. The networks of safety information of the industries, accident’s database, safety training, contractors, emergency management and management of the changes were placed on the foundation as the system columns. The Industrial Town’s Safety Management (ITSM) system as the system roof was placed on the columns. This structure was placed within a two-line framework including the trade secrets and program audit. CONCLUSIONS: The ITSM system consists of a set of factors that can help manage the safety of the industrial towns. This system will increase the safety level of industrial towns by incorporating some safety principles. However, the safety management of an industrial town is very complex and requires a great deal of efforts.

scholarly journals An interventional study of rice for reducing cadmium exposure in a Chinese industrial town

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Huang ◽  
Linli Liu ◽  
Ting Zhang ◽  
Di Zhao ◽  
Hongbo Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cadmium Exposure ◽  
Interventional Study ◽  
Industrial Town

scholarly journals CREATIVITY INCLUDING TECHNOLOGY IN BOOSTING SOCIAL INNOVATION IN A SMALL POST-SOCIALIST INDUSTRIAL TOWN: FIENI (ROMANIA)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreea-Loreta Cercleux ◽  
Florentina-Cristina Merciu ◽  
Elena Bogan ◽  
Cosmina-Andreea Manea
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Industrial Town

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Community and the Business of Pleasure: the San Sebastián Waiters' Strike of 1920

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Walton ◽  
Jenny Smith
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Seaside Resort ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Holiday Season ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
The Status ◽  
General Strike ◽  
Important Kind

SummaryHealth and pleasure resorts constitute a distinctive, numerous and important kind of industrial town. But they, and the service industries which are central to their economies, have hardly been studied from a social conflict and industrial relations perspective. This paper opens out this theme by analysing a strike in the catering trades in San Sebastián, at the time Spain's largest and most prestigious seaside resort, at the height of the holiday season in August. The course of the strike is charted in its economic and political context, and the reasons for its outbreak, and for an ensuing attempt to escalate it into a local general strike, are analysed. Particular attention is paid to the status in the labour market of the camareros or hotel, restaurant and café waiters who withdrew their labour, and to reactions to the strike among local media who were deeply conscious of the importance to San Sebastián's staple industry of sustaining a carefully-constructed image of tranquillity and security. Comparisons are made with British resort experiences in the turbulent years between 1916 and 1921, and further work on this theme is urged, especially for this important period.

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