Past Crises in English Industrial History

Industrial heritage reflects the development track of human production activities and witnessed the rise and fall of industrial civilization. As one of the earliest countries in the world to start the Industrial Revolution, Belgium has a rich industrial history. Over the past years, a set of industrial heritage renewal projects have emerged in Belgium in the process of urban regeneration. In this paper, we introduce the basic contents of the related terms of industrial heritage, examine the overall situation of protection and renewal in Belgium. The industrial heritage in Belgium shows its regional characteristics, each region has its representative industrial heritage types. In the Walloon region, it is the heavy industry. In Flanders, it is the textile industry. In Brussels, it is the service industry. The kinds of industrial heritages in Belgium are coordinate with each other. Industrial heritage tourism is developed, especially on eco-tourism, experience tourism. The industrial heritage in transportation and mining are the representative industrial heritages in Belgium. There are a set of numbers industrial heritages are still in running based on a successful reconstruction into industrial tourism projects. Due to the advanced experience in dealing with industrial heritage, the industrial heritage and the city live together harmoniously.

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The dimensions of streaming: toward a typology of an evolving concept

Media Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0163443720904587 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 (7-8) ◽

pp. 1210-1225 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hendrik Storstein Spilker ◽

Terje Colbjørnsen

Keyword(s):

Comparative Research ◽

Live Streaming ◽

General Audience ◽

Industrial History ◽

On Demand ◽

History Of ◽

Media Research ◽

Key Dimensions

Based on research on the development of streaming solutions across media forms and industries, this article traces the dynamics and dimensions of the notion of streaming. It theorizes streaming as an evolving concept, and argues against strict, set and limited definitions such as those suggested by Lotz and Herbert et al. A short substantive and industrial history of streaming is provided, recognizing its many manifestations and variations. Five key dimensions are identified, and trends and traits within each of them discussed: (1) professional versus user-generated streaming, (2) legal versus piracy streaming, (3) on-demand versus live streaming, (4) streaming on dedicated versus multi-feature platforms, and (5) niche versus general-audience streaming. The article concludes by pointing out how streaming is a concept that metaphorically unites media research across industries, practices, and media forms, encouraging more comparative research.

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Golden Opportunities: Jewelry Making in Birmingham between Mass Production and Specialty

Enterprise & Society ◽

10.1017/s1467222700012246 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 272-298 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Francesca Carnevali

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Mass Production ◽

Small Firms ◽

Product Market ◽

Industrial Districts ◽

Mass Consumption ◽

Industrial History ◽

Flexible Specialization ◽

Productive System ◽

History Of

Narratives of flexible specialization as an alternative to mass production are largely absent from the industrial history of twentieth-century Britain. In this article, I challenge the notion that we should relegate small firms and industrial districts to a marginal place in the historiography of this period. Drawing from a range of sources, I explore the history of Birmingham's jewelry makers to show how they adapted the traditional productive system of the district to respond in a dynamic way to the challenges of rapid product market differentiation. As jewelry increasingly became a commodity for mass consumption, the firms in the Birmingham district used a combination of specialty and mass production as a strategy to both satisfy and create demand.

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Britain's Railways: An Industrial History. By Harold Pollins. Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971. Pp. 223. $11.00.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700077366 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 770-771

Author(s):

Albro Martin

Keyword(s):

New Jersey ◽

Industrial History

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The Output of the British Woolen Industry in the Eighteenth Century

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700080414 ◽

1957 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 207-223 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Phyllis Deane

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

United Kingdom ◽

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Industrial History ◽

Long Term Trends

As part of a general inquiry into the economic growth of die United Kingdom, an attempt is being made to estimate long-term trends in output of individual industries over as long a period of time as the data allow. Throughout the eighteenth century wool was the major English manufacturing industry. It is the purpose of this article to consider the evidence of contemporary estimates of the value of the woolen manufacture, with a view to using them as a basis for an assessment of the broad trends in its output over this crucial period of Britain's industrial history.

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The political consequences of the product cycle: industrial history and political outcomes

International Organization ◽

10.1017/s0020818300000643 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 1-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 89

Author(s):

James R. Kurth

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Domestic Politics ◽

International Political Economy ◽

Product Cycle ◽

The West ◽

Political Consequences ◽

Industrial History ◽

Political Outcomes ◽

Foreign Policies ◽

The Impact

What explains the continuing stagnation in the industrial economies of the West? What will be the impact of such stagnation upon domestic politics and upon international relations? Are there domestic and foreign policies which the state can undertake to bring about a return to sustained economic prosperity and a recapitulation of that lost golden age of 1948–1973? These are now the central questions for scholars in the emerging field of international political economy. A recent special issue of International Organization, edited by Peter Katzenstein, has presented some of the most useful and sophisticated approaches to these questions and analyses of the international political economy of the West during the period of the last thirty years.

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