History Of Industry Research Articles

Land cover and water quality of drowned river mouths: Evidence of an environmental gradient along the eastern Lake Michigan shoreline

Lake Michigan’s drowned river mouths (DRM) are hydrologically unique systems with both riverine and large-lake influences. Serving as focal points for human development, DRMs have experienced a history of industrialization, urbanization, and are now moving towards an era of restoration and revitalization. The goal of this study was to examine water quality in 12 DRMs along Lake Michigan’s eastern shoreline. We hypothesized that there is a latitudinal gradient in indicators of water quality in these DRM lakes, which is the result of natural land cover, anthropogenic land use, and underlying geology. We identified a latitudinal gradient in land use/land cover with developed land area more abundant in southern DRMs and forest more abundant in northern land area; this distinction was evident at both the local and whole watershed geographic scales but was more distinct at the local scale. Water quality followed suit with specific conductance, chlorophyll-a, and total phosphorus (TP) concentrations higher in southern DRMs and lower in northern DRMs; whereas, Secchi disk depth showed the opposite trend. Multivariate analysis results were consistent with the relationship of water quality and latitudinal gradient. Thermal stratification and low dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in the hypolimnion were more common in deeper (i.e., greater than 4 m) areas of DRMs; low DO in the hypolimnion was more likely in southern DRMs than in northern DRMs. These results provide a foundation for future research initiatives in helping separate anthropogenic vs. natural stress in these systems, which provide critical ecosystem services for their surrounding communities.

4C Marketing Theory from the Perspective of Horticultural Industry Marketing Strategy Analysis

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market strategy of landscape industry in China. On this basis, by using the methods of literature, case analysis and questionnaire survey, this paper discusses the market strategy that should be adopted by the landscape industry in China, in order to provide some reference for the development of the landscape industry in China. In recent years, with the continuous development of the global economy, the level of science and technology is also constantly improving. People are increasingly pursuing a high quality of life. However, with the rapid development of The Times, human beings' requirements for ecological environment are increasing day by day. Therefore, the whole world is exploring how to improve the level of ecological security in our country. Landscape industry is the basis of human survival and development, but also the basis of human survival and development. Due to historical, cultural, economic and other factors, today's market conditions around the world are not the same, but they have their own unique advantages. Through literature research on the origin and development history of the horticulture industry, this paper finds that the horticulture industry is closely related to the development of human society and is closely related to the world's economy, culture, history, art and customs. Today, when the global ecological environment urgently needs to be improved, the landscape industry has been paid more and more attention worldwide. At present, the world has begun to pay attention to the benefits of landscaping on the human body, and carried out a variety of research on landscaping treatment, after the epidemic was raging around the world in 2020, people's yearning for natural life has become stronger. With the development of scientific research, people have attached importance to the beautification and healing effect of horticulture, The attention to ecological environment is the inevitable trend of the development of human society. In the garden, he also became more sophisticated. It is no longer just a natural exploration, but a government-led national architecture strategy, as well as an industry dominated by the elite, its emergence and popularity, so that more home garden fans can enjoy the beauty of nature to bring them. In this context, with the wide spread of the concept of "home garden", the development of Chinese landscape architecture has entered a new stage. Therefore, for the development prospects of the landscape industry, how to use market strategies to promote the development of the landscape industry and improve the influence of the industry, especially for the development of the landscape industry, has positive significance for the development of the landscape industry. By means of questionnaire survey, this paper studies the influencing factors of consumers' purchasing behavior of garden commodities, and integrates with the 4C market theory. Taking Hongyue Garden as an example, this paper conducts an empirical study on the company's market strategy, finds out the advantages and disadvantages of the company in the market, and hopes to bring some references to other garden companies. So as to better promote the development of the landscape industry.

Book Review: Warship Builders: An Industrial History of US Naval Shipbuilding, 1922–1945 by Thomas Heinrich

Book Review: <i>Warship Builders: An Industrial History of US Naval Shipbuilding, 1922–1945</i> by Thomas Heinrich

Emily Hund. The influencer industry: The quest for authenticity on social media

The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media, written by American media researcher Emily Hund, takes the reader on a scouting expedition into the U. S. influencer industry. Hund is a well-established author in social media influencer research, where her works on gender dynamics in the influencer industry have been particularly notable (e. g., Duffy &amp; Hund, 2015, 2019). These works look at social media influence from a creative industry’s angle, and The Influencer Industry also stands in this lineage. Although the title does not make it clear, the book offers, first and foremost, a chronological history of the influencer industry in the United States. Beginning with the advent of political bloggers in the late 1990s, each chapter focuses on a specific period and the overarching developmental milestones Hund identifies as constituting the period. This way, Hund provides a much-needed historical perspective on the influencer industry. However, the book wants to be more than that – and it definitely is – in that it also reflects on how the influencer industry impacts contemporary forms of sociation.

Urban green spaces and their relationship with groundwater quality: the case of a shallow aquifer in the south of Mexico City

Water supply security is a top priority for decision-makers in cities. Urban population growth increases water demand from aquifers, while urban expansion reduces water infiltration and boosts water pollution sources. Urban green spaces are a few of the remaining infiltration areas. Therefore, they are essential for water supply and urban hydric resilience. The urban dynamic directly influences shallow aquifers, but they usually are unappreciated. This work illustrates the relationship between urban green spaces and city water quality by evaluating the influence of urban green space, Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Angel (REPSA), on a shallow aquifer in Mexico City. Five springs were sampled: two upstream of REPSA, a spring within REPSA, and two downstream. Because the study area is mainly residential but with an industrial history, water quality was tested based on microbiological pathogens, nutrients, pharmaceutical drugs, and heavy metals. Results showed an enhancement of water quality of the shallow aquifer in the sampling points downstream of REPSA for some of the pollutants. These results illustrate how urban green spaces can help to dilute pollutants present in the water of shallow aquifers, increasing water quality in cities.

Color in modern architecture of Olivetti's town

AbstractIvrea is a small city known throughout the world as the home of the Olivetti company. For many years, the innovative urban and architectural experiment inspired and supported by Adriano Olivetti, financed by his company for a large part of the twentieth century, was less well known internationally. His patronage and his far‐sighted vision for urban society have produced results of great relevance in the history of Italian industrialization and Modern Architecture. Since 2018, the architectural assets, the archives, cultural heritage and social experiments, have become part of the UNESCO Catalogue of World Heritage Sites (Ivrea, industrial city of the 20th century). Today, many of these heritage buildings, characterized by external surfaces decorated with colored tiles of different types, have several conservation problems, due in many cases to the lack of ordinary maintenance. At the same time, the unavailability of original materials makes the planning of appropriate intervention solutions for maintenance and restoration difficult. This report intends to give an account of this event through two convergent approaches: (i) on the level of method, continually seeking a precise analysis of the materials, trying to refrain from the image of an ‘Olivetti's architecture’ flattened only on rationalist models—chromatically limited—to do justice to a less minimalist vision that has characterized the architectural heritage on matter since its inception; (ii) on the operative level, giving an account of the attempts to recover and restore that “world of colours” that is the Olivetti's city, also with a correct lexical reading of the architectural elements and the finding of materials (an operation declined toward “what can be done today”, given that many original products are unavailable and manufacturers are no longer in activity).

Remote Work and City Decline: Lessons From the Garment District

Abstract The dramatic rise of remote work threatens the traditional source of urban growth—the unique ability of dense cities to provide a setting in which firms and employees share productive resources, match needs with skills, and transmit knowledge at low cost. These “agglomeration benefits” have induced cities to pursue clusters of related firms that have served as the basis for local economic development and technological innovation. Remote work reduces the necessity for related firms to co-locate, and its popularity has led commentators to predict significant decrease in city business activity, tax revenues, and services as traditional clusters dissipate. It remains unclear how cities will react to the remote work phenomenon. Prior episodes of cluster decline, however, reveal that cities have difficulty pivoting to new economic models when outmoded ones threaten local decay. Instead, cities tend to support existing clusters, notwithstanding that the impending decline is a function of external forces rather than of local policies. This article addresses the potential mismatch between cluster decline that may flow from remote work and city responses. The article theorizes that continued municipal efforts to support a declining cluster emerge from the ability of affected firms to coalesce, exercise political influence, and exploit fragmented municipal decision making to preserve the status quo, maintain or increase municipal subsidies for the cluster, and deter entry by competitors for city resources. Those strategies impede the city’s transition to a more productive economy in the face of looming cluster decline. The article then turns to the history of the garment industry in New York City to illustrate the theory. That history provides a cautionary tale about how cities should and should not respond to the threats they face from remote work.

Specialisty katolicheskoj obshchiny Zlatousta v promyshlennosti i na zheleznodorozhnom transporte Yuzhnogo Urala v konce XIX i nachale XX v.

The article develops an insufficiently studied socio-religious aspect of the history of industry and transport in Russia. The authors investigate the participation of the Zlatoust Roman Catholic Church's parishioners in the work of mining, metallurgical and railway industries in the South Ural region and assess the involvement of Catholics in the processes of industrial development this region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The article recreates the Roman Catholic segment of the local labor market and traces the professional biographies of many Catholic specialists on the basis of reference publications (directories) and church documents (parish registers).

The Pandemic As a Challenge for the Diversification of Tourism

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant global impact on tourism. During the period of restricted travel between the countries, the segment of leisure activities in the regional city of Nitra (Slovakia) also gradually diversified. For the city, traditional events such as visits to theaters, museums, galleries, or trade fairs were halted and later moved online. The offer of activities has expanded to include the previously unnoticed objects of anthropogenic origin, which present the industrial history of the city and also point to the growth of the city. These objects are gradually transformed from the original production function to objects with a nonproduction function. This article aims to identify such buildings as an alternative to other leisure time activities of the residents and visitors to the city of Nitra. We analyze and evaluate their usability in the area of tourism based on primary and secondary sources and field research. The results are formulated as a proposal to form two thematic routes through the city, which can be used in nonpandemic times.

Assessing Core-Monopolization and the Possibilities for the Semi-Periphery in the World-System Today

Drawing upon both classic and more contemporary world-systems analysis, along with oft-forgotten sections of Arghiri Emmanuel’s work on technology, this paper studies, through a quantitative and qualitative comparative method, the history and development of the global semiconductors industry, its selective spatial re-organization/peripheralization over time, and the logic of technology transfers within the context of core-monopolization of high profit industries. The paper then draws comparisons between semiconductors and prior core-monopolized industries like the automobile industry, and analyzes attempts at entry into core-like production by the large semi-peripheries such as China and India and the difficulties faced by them not only by the structural limitations of the world-system but also due to opposition from the core nations (like the U.S.-China Trade War). Resultingly, the analysis concludes that significant upward mobility for the large semi-peripheries through entry into core industries is, within the current capitalist world-system, largely unfeasible.

PROSPECT OF ASIAN AMERICAN BOOK TO MOVIE ADAPTATIONS IN THE HOLLYWOOD ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

This paper explores the prospects of Asian American book-to-movie adaptations in the Hollywood industry. There have been a large number of book-to-movie adaptations in the history of the American film industry, such as Great Expectation (1946), The Silence of the Lamb (1991), and The Great Gatsby (2013) to mention just a few. Some have also been reported to gain fame and economic success in the global film market. The mentioned book-to-movie adaptations were based on Western authors. Meanwhile, history has witnessed the emergence of Asian American writers such as: Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, Anchee Min, among others who have played an essential role in the field of American literature. This paper uses a qualitative method by analyzing data from selected Book-to movie adaptations. It is evident that some of them received prestigious awards. Tan’s book-to-movie adaptation The Joy Luck Club (1993), Hosseini’s book-to-movie adaptation The Kite Runner (2007) and Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians (2018) have entered Hollywood to participate in the extremely competitive film market. The study results show that Asian American writers have emerged recently. Second, Asian American book-to-movie adaptations offer unique narratives to American audiences, although only a handful of Asian American book-to-movie adaptations have been produced. In conclusion, despite the promising growth of Asian American literature, readers can realize that Asian American book-to-movie adaptations have to struggle to be able to tap into the Hollywood industry.

Graham Dutfield, That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Graham Dutfield, That High Design of Purest Gold: A Critical History of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Introduction. New advances in quantitative business history

This introduction presents a special issue of Revista de Historia Industrial - Industrial History Review devoted to quantitative business history. After a brief overview of the role and position of quantitative approaches in the methodological debate in business history, we summarize some of the salient points of the articles included in this special issue. These articles highlight the valuable use of quantitative datasets and methods in business history. They also testify to the critical contribution of quantitative analyses in the historical investigation of topics in business strategy and the study of causal relationships between foundational elements of the business and financial systems. The papers also reveal the laborious process of constructing historical datasets suitable for quantitative analyses.

Real Estate Production in Contaminated Areas and its Contribution to the 2030 Agenda: Perception of Experts for the City of São Paulo

Among the various challenges of urbanization, the relationship between environmental impacts and the difficulty of meeting the expansive demand for housing and commerce stands out. In this last aspect, the real estate sector's interest in making properties with industrial history suitable for residential or commercial use is highlighted. This interest comes up against, however, the damage caused by industrial contamination. In the municipality of São Paulo and the metropolitan region, this is a reality that is well known by the real estate sector. Therefore, the potential of Management of Contaminated Area (GAC) in providing opportunities to the real estate market is highlighted. Along with revitalization, GAC can collaborate with the quality of life in metropolises, one of the main urban sustainability goals established by the United Nations 2030 Agenda. In this sense, the objective of this work was to analyze the benefits and challenges of contaminated areas for the real estate production sector in the city of São Paulo, relating these aspects to sustainable development. The perception of nine specialists from the public and private sectors was analyzed through semi-structured interviews. The remediation and decontamination of areas impacted by industrial activities promote the revitalization of areas, increasing the availability of properties with safe use and contributing to society. The benefits of investing in contaminated areas, performed by categorization of feelings, showed that 100% of respondents have a positive feeling. The interpretation of the experts' responses regarding the risks of investing in contaminated areas, carried out by categorization of feelings, showed that 100% of respondents had a negative feeling. In the experts' perception, several benefits of the GAC were identified aimed at urban sustainability and a lack of knowledge regarding the contributions of management to the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda goals. Despite this assessment, the responses allowed diagnosing six SDGs in which the revitalization and remediation of contaminated areas play a central role: SDG 3, 4, 11, 12 and 13.

Inside the History of Italian Coloring Industries: An Investigation of ACNA Dyes through a Novel Analytical Protocol for Synthetic Dye Extraction and Characterization.

The introduction of synthetic dyes completely changed the industrial production and use of colorants for art materials. From the synthesis of the first synthetic dye, mauveine, in 1856 until today, artists have enjoyed a wider range of colors and selection of chemical properties than was ever available before. However, the introduction of synthetic dyes introduced a wider variety and increased the complexity of the chemical structures of marketed dyes. This work looks towards the analysis of synthetically dyed objects in heritage collections, applying an extraction protocol based on the use of ammonia, which is considered favorable for natural anthraquinone dyes but has never before been applied to acid synthetic dyes. This work also presents an innovative cleanup step based on the use of an ion pair dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction for the purification and preconcentration of historical synthetic dyes before analysis. This approach was adapted from food science analysis and is applied to synthetic dyes in heritage science for the first time in this paper. The results showed adequate recovery of analytes and allowed for the ammonia-based extraction method to be applied successfully to 15 samples of suspected azo dyes from the Azienda Coloranti Nazionali e Affini (ACNA) synthetic dye collection, identified through untargeted HPLC-HRMS analyses.

Salt Workers in Contemporary South India: Change and Continuity

Monopolies of different kinds have remained a constant factor in the history of the salt industry in India. The available literature focuses on the economic aspects of the industry and not on labour. In this essay, we study the labour process to understand the influence of monopoly, caste hegemony, land tenure and the idea of production inefficiency. We show how colonial and post-colonial state policies have remained indifferent to the lives of salt workers. This article reconstructs salt history in India from the perspective of salt workers, restoring dignity to their labour and lives.

Mercury in tree rings close to emission sources in Austria.

Mercury in wood is an important pool of this heavy metal in forest ecosystems because of its relatively high proportion in the biomass compared to other pools. This paper describes the successful application of a modified methodology for stem disk sampling based on wood particles from stem disks from Donawitz (Styria, Austria; pig iron production), from Brixlegg (Tyrol; former copper and silver mining, copper ore processing and copper recycling), and from Gmunden (Upper Austria; cement production). The maximum mercury concentration in the stem disks from Donawitz (Hinterberg: 20.5ppb, St. Peter: 9.3ppb) was recorded in the early 1970s. Several maxima were obtained from the stem disks from Brixlegg: the first was in 1813 (149.9ppb), potentially even earlier, a second (37.6ppb) in the late nineteenth century until the late 1920s, and a third local maximum in the 1970s (9.1ppb), followed by a tendency to decline until the present. A stem disk from Gmunden in Upper Austria showed values of mercury concentrations indicating no increases compared to literature about background sites (≤ 3.2ppb). This method revealed trends in mercury concentrations in tree rings originating from several different mercury emission sources in Austria coinciding with information about industrial history (where available) together with a justifiable effort. We therefore recommend it for further investigations on mercury concentrations in tree rings and their changes over time.

India and ‘European’ evolutionary political economy

Evolutionary political economy (EPE) deals with populations and economic change over time but has not been systematised beyond European industrial history. The world’s largest democracy India, despite challenges from COVID-19, is now the fastest growing and 5th largest economy in the world, transitioning into a distinct period of industrial deepening, with export expansion in engineering products and services, huge outlays on airports, highways and rail systems, new domestic defence initiatives to boost indigenous R&D, yet retains a global diplomatic stance as a responsible nation–state from vaccine sharing to Asian security. This commentary explores the Indian case to argue that EPE’s combinatorial approach to technological capabilities and industrial development can be considerably strengthened from the study of non-European cases.

Industri Batik Tarancak Di Kampung Jawa Kota Solok (2014-2022)

This research is a study of industrial history that discusses the Tarancak Batik Industry in Kampung Jawa Kota Solok in 2014 – 2022. The research objective is to find out the background of the establishment of the Tarancak Batik Industry in Kampung Jawa and the development of the Tarancak Batik Industry in Kampung Jawa in 2014 – 2022. This study uses the historical method which consists of four steps, namely heuristics (source gathering), verification (source criticism), interpretation (interpretation) and histotiography (writing). The results of this study are that the Tarancak Batik Industry is the first batik industry in Solok City which was founded by Mimi on January 2, 2014. The background to the establishment of the Tarancak Batik industry was caused by economic, cultural and social factors. The Tarancak Batik industry has been able to survive and develop until now because Mimi and husband Nanang Suhardis have the ability to think creatively and innovate to create new, modern and unique works. Ability to adapt quickly and see opportunities that exist. The development of the Tarancak Batik Industry cannot be separated from product marketing and promotion using social media, participating in exhibitions and competitions. However, the use of social media and the marketplace has not been maximized because there is no one to manage it.&#x0D; Keywords: Industry, Tarancak Batik, Development

Воображая Гиперборею: представления жителей Мурманской области о развитии туризма в городе Ковдоре

The article discusses the perceptions of the residents of the Murmansk region regarding the development of tourism in the town of Kovdor, based on an analysis of survey results. The study is based on theoretical research in the field of sustainable tourism, an important part of which involves studying the opinions of the local population regarding the development of tourism in their area. The results of the study demonstrated that many respondents were quite skeptical about the development of Kovdor as a place where traces of the ancient civilization of Hyperborea can be found. This is largely because it pertains to alternative history, which has little in common with the industrial history of Kovdor and the image of a Kovdor resident. According to the respondents, spiritual tourism and everything associated with it does not fit into the general ideas of the region and nature tourism, which should be the main focus.