Описание: An analysis of the policies and provision of vocational education in advanced industrial countries against a backdrop of changing labour markets. The text challenges assumptions about skills and employment growth, and explores the roles that government and the private sector could play in developing advanced skills policies and initiatives.
Описание: Why are there now no major car manufacturers in Britain? Timothy Whisler considers this and the surrounding issues, making valuable comparisons with overseas manufacturers operating both in the UK and abroad. This book covers the issues of product development, quality, design, and range.
Описание: Between 1980 and 1985, the French economy and industry faced a dramatic crisis; in the ten years that followed, it witnessed a remarkable revival. How did the economy make this transition? Building on the "varieties of capitalism" approach in political economy, this text examines what happened.
Описание: In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces. Ronald L. Lewis’s book uses this largely forgotten episode as a window into contests over political, environmental, and legal change in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.The Eastham-Thompson feud pitted a former Confederate against a member of the new business elite who was, as a northern Republican, his cultural and political opposite. For Lewis, their clash was one flashpoint in a larger phenomenon central to US history in the second half of the nineteenth century: the often violent imposition of new commercial and legal regimes over holdout areas stretching from Appalachia to the trans-Missouri West. Taking a ground-level view of these so-called “wars of incorporation,” Lewis’s powerful microhistory shows just how strongly local communities guarded traditional relationships to natural resources. Modernizers sought to convict Eastham of murder, but juries drawn from the traditionalist population refused to comply. Although the resisters won the courtroom battle, the modernizers eventually won the war for control of the state’s timber frontier.
Описание: Tanner, like so many of the region`s giants, began his career in the South`s dismal age of reconstruction. This is not only the Tanner story but, in microcosm, the story of those significant southern institutions, mill stores and villages, and the story of the rise of an industrial South. Originally published in 1952.
Описание: The oil and gas industry is going through a major technological shift. This is particularly true of the Norwegian continental shelf where new work processes are being implemented based on digital infrastructure and information technology. The term Integrated Operations (IO) has been applied to this set of new processes. It is defined by the Centre for Integrated Operations in the Petroleum Industry as 'work processes and technology to make smarter decisions and better execution, enabled by ubiquitous real time data, collaborative techniques and access to multiple expertise'. It's claimed that IO is efficient, optimises exploration, reduces costs and improves safety performance. However, the picture is not as clear-cut as it may appear. On the one hand, the new work processes do not prevent major accidents: IO-related factors have been identified in recent events such as the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. On the other hand, IO technology provides improved decision-making support (such as access to real-time data and expertise), which can reduce human and material losses and damage to the environment. Given these very different properties, it's vital that the industry has a detailed understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of IO, which this book sets out to do from a multidisciplinary point of view. It analyses Integrated Operations from the angles of statistics, management science, human factors and resilience engineering. These varied disciplines provide a multifaceted understanding of IO that better informs risk assessment practices, as well as explaining new techniques and methods and provides state-of-the-art guidance to risk assessment practitioners working in the oil and gas industry.
Автор: Rosillo-Calle Название: Industrial Uses of Biomass Energy ISBN: 0748408843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748408849 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 33686.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book demonstrates that energy-rich vegetation, biomass, is a key renewable energy resource for the future. However, bioenergy still faces economic, institutional and some technical barriers and these are explored in this text.
Автор: Guowen Song, Faming Wang (Editors) Название: Firefighter`S Clothing And Equipmen ISBN: 1498742734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498742733 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 33686.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book describes an in-depth review of firefighting clothing and equipment, and explicitly addresses the performance of protection and comfort in textile engineering, clothing design, and evaluation. Covered topics include protection and comfort requirements, testing methods, standards and performance evaluation etc.
Автор: Tatiya, Ratan Raj. Название: Elements of industrial hazards ISBN: 1138115266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138115262 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 11789.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An introductory course on Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) as applicable to all manufacturing and exploration engineering industries. Its first part deals with fundamentals, ecology and environmental engineering and covers air and water pollution sources, magnitude, measuring techniques and remedial measures to minimize them. The second part deals with industrial hazards, health and safety. It includes standards, strategies, risk assessment and accident analysis. The last part treats eight elements of HSE management, which is currently a critical activity for virtually any engineering business. Intended for a wide audience active in the engineering industry, ranging from the plant supervisor to HSE consultants to operators in the field.
Автор: Clark, Claudia. Название: Radium girls, women and industrial health reform : ISBN: 0807846406 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807846407 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 6644.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the early 20th century, a group of women workers fell victim to radium poisoning due to working with radium-laced paint. This account portrays their fight to have their symptoms recognized as an industrial disease, as an important chapter in the history of modern health and labour policy.
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