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Locked in place
Why were some countries able to build \"developmental states\" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience,Locked in Placeargues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state.
Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country.
Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development,Locked in Placeis an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.
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Documenting the Industrial Revolution
Discusses the Industrial Revolution and its implications on society.
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Learning for Work
Founded in 1883, the Chicago Manual Training School (CMTS) was a
short-lived but influential institution dedicated to teaching a
balanced combination of practical and academic skills. Connie
Goddard uses the CMTS as a door into America's early era of
industrial education and the transformative idea of \"learning to
do.\"
Rooting her account in John Dewey's ideas, Goddard moves from
early nineteenth century supporters of the union of learning and
labor to the interconnected histories of CMTS, New Jersey's Manual
Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, North Dakota's
Normal and Industrial School, and related programs elsewhere.
Goddard analyzes the work of movement figures like abolitionist
Theodore Weld, educators Calvin Woodward and Booker T. Washington,
social critic W.E.B. Du Bois, Dewey himself, and his influential
Chicago colleague Ella Flagg Young. The book contrasts ideas about
manual training held by advocate Nicholas Murray Butler with those
of opponent William Torrey Harris and considers overlooked
connections between industrial education and the Arts and Crafts
Movement.
An absorbing merger of history and storytelling, Learning
for Work looks at the people who shaped industrial education
while offering a provocative vision of realizing its potential
today.
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Assimilate : a critical history of industrial music
Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups who combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and style of punk rock. In its early days, bands such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire produced a genuinely radical form of music bent on recontextualizing the signs and methods of cultural authority in an attempt to liberate listeners from the trappings of modernity. But, as industrial music took on more and more elements of popular music over the course of the 1980s it slowly abandoned its mission. By the mid-1990s, it was seen as simply another style of pop music, and had ironically fallen into the trappings it sought by its very existence to destroy. This book provides a critical history of this fascinating and enigmatic genre tracing industrial music’s trajectory from Throbbing Gristle’s founding of the record label Industrial Music in 1976, to its peak in popularity on the back of the band Nine Inch Nails in the mid-1990s, and through its decline to the present day. Through a series of revealing explorations of works spanning the entirety of industrial music’s past, and drawing on extensive interviews with musicians, record label owners, DJs, and concert promoters, the book paints a thorough historical picture that includes not only the bands, but the structures that supported them, and the scenes they created. In so doing, it reveals an engaging story of an ideological disintegration and its aftermath.
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Lobbying hitler
From 1933 onward, Nazi Germany undertook massive and unprecedented industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers of business managers in two of the era's most important trade organizations. While Jakob Reichert of the iron and steel industry unexpectedly resisted state control and was eventually driven to suicide, Karl Lange of the machine builders' association achieved security for himself and his industry by submitting to the Nazi regime. Both men's stories illuminate the options available to industrialists under the Third Reich, as well as the real priorities set by the industries they served.
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Torpedo : inventing the military-industrial complex in the United States and Great Britain
In a bold reappraisal, Katherine Epstein uncovers the origins of the \"military-industrial complex\" not in the Cold War but in the decades before WWI, as the United States and Great Britain struggled to perfect a crucial new weapon: the self-propelled torpedo. Torpedo R&D sparked intellectual property battles that reshaped national security law.
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