Getting The Goods

Author : Edna Bonacich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801459478
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting the Goods written by Edna Bonacich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Getting the Goods, Edna Bonacich and Jake B. Wilson focus on the Southern California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach—which together receive 40 percent of the nearly $2 trillion worth of goods imported annually to the United States—to examine the impact of the logistics revolution on workers in transportation and distribution. Built around the invention of shipping containers and communications technology, the logistics revolution has enabled giant retailers like Wal-Mart and Target to sell cheap consumer products made using low-wage labor in developing countries. The goods are shipped through an efficient, low-cost, intermodal freight system, in which containers are moved from factories in Asia to distribution centers across the United States without ever being opened. Bonacich and Wilson follow the flow of imports from Asian factories, exploring the roles of importers, container shipping companies, the ports, railroad and trucking companies, and warehouses. At each stage, Getting the Goods raises important questions about how the logistics revolution affects logistics workers. Drawing extensively on interviews with workers and managers at all levels of the supply chain, on industry reports, and on economic data, Bonacich and Wilson find that, in general, conditions have deteriorated for workers. But they also discover that changes in the system of production and distribution provide new strategic opportunities for labor to gain power. A much-needed corrective to both uncritical celebrations of containerization and the global economy and pessimistic predictions about the future of the U.S. labor movement, Getting the Goods will become required reading for scholars and students in sociology, political economy, and labor studies.

Author : Ann Smart Martin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801887275
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buying Into the World of Goods written by Ann Smart Martin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-03-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowinner, 2008 Fred Kniffen Book Award. Pioneer America Society/Association for the Preservation of Landscapes and Artifacts How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin provides answers to these questions by examining the texture of trade on the edge of the upper Shenandoah Valley between 1760 and 1810. Reconstructing the world of one country merchant, John Hook, Martin reveals how the acquisition of consumer goods created and validated a set of ideas about taste, fashion, and lifestyle in a particular place at a particular time. Her analysis of Hook's account ledger illuminates the everyday wants, transactions, and tensions recorded within and brings some of Hook's customers to life: a planter looking for just the right clock, a farmer in search of nails, a young woman and her friends out shopping on their own, and a slave woman choosing a looking glass. This innovative approach melds fascinating narratives with sophisticated analysis of material culture to distill large abstract social and economic systems into intimate triangulations among merchants, customers, and objects. Martin finds that objects not only reflect culture, they are the means to create it.

Author : Robin Nelson
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
ISBN 13 : 1512464880
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do We Buy? written by Robin Nelson and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Have you ever bought a toy at a store? Have you had a haircut or ordered food in a restaurant? Then you’ve used goods and services! Goods and services are everywhere. They’re in stores, homes, schools, restaurants, farms, and factories. So, what is a good? And what’s a service? Read this book to find out.

Author : Heather Schwartz
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
ISBN 13 : 1433369788
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goods and Services Around Town written by Heather Schwartz and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Needs and wants and the difference between them can be a difficult concept for young students. Early readers will be introduced to goods and services, what makes them different, and examples of each. This title features plenty of eye-catching images and new vocabulary.

Author : Damon Schechter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047125682X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delivering the Goods written by Damon Schechter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We often think of great battles as having been won by superior strategy, bravery, or weaponry. Often, however, the greatest battles are decided by a much more mundane factor: logistics. Delivering the Goods looks at business logistics through the history of successful military logistical operations undertaken by leaders from Alexander the Great to General Norman Schwarzkopf, and offers practical guidance on applying proven logistical principles to your business.

Author : McSweeney's
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 076366894X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Goods: Volume 1 written by McSweeney's and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of fun for readers of all ages, created by McSweeney’s. Prepare to be entertained (and informed) by the award-winning McSweeney’s team. Featuring some of children’s literature’s best-known and loved authors and illustrators, this book offers unremitting amusement in a literary funfair of games, puzzles, comics, and other diversions. Thoughtfully conceived and visually unsurpassable, The Goods will captivate adults and children alike.

Author : Carolyn Andrews
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778742555
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Are Goods and Services? written by Carolyn Andrews and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-08-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful book will help young readers understand the concepts of goods and services so that they recognize their role in the cycle commerce. The concepts of producers and consumers are also carefully explained in a manner children will understand and enjoy.

Author : Ellen Mitten
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1612367097
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goods Or Services? written by Ellen Mitten and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Readers Will Identify That Goods Are Objects And Services Are Activities That Can Satisfy People's Wants.

Author : Timothy F. Bresnahan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226074188
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economics of New Goods written by Timothy F. Bresnahan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New goods are at the heart of economic progress. The eleven essays in this volume include historical treatments of new goods and their diffusion; practical exercises in measurement addressed to recent and ongoing innovations; and real-world methods of devising quantitative adjustments for quality change. The lead article in Part I contains a striking analysis of the history of light over two millenia. Other essays in Part I develop new price indexes for automobiles back to 1906; trace the role of the air conditioner in the development of the American south; and treat the germ theory of disease as an economic innovation. In Part II essays measure the economic impact of more recent innovations, including anti-ulcer drugs, new breakfast cereals, and computers. Part III explores methods and defects in the treatment of quality change in the official price data of the United States, Canada, and Japan. This pathbreaking volume will interest anyone who studies economic growth, productivity, and the American standard of living.

Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307949850
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Our Worldly Goods written by Irene Nemirovsky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpieceSuite Française. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’s death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and his grandfather, the tyrannical family patriarch. Their marriage provokes a family feud that cascades down the generations. This brilliant novel is full of drama, heartbreak, and the telling observations that have made Némirovsky’s work so beloved and admired.