Banking elites and the transformation of capitalism in Switzerland: A prosopographic analysis (1890-2020) [0.03%]
瑞士银行业精英与资本主义的转变(1890-2020)一项人物志分析
Pedro Araujo,Eric Davoine,Pierre-Yves Donzé
Pedro Araujo
Swiss capitalism has changed over time, adopting elements of the coordinated market economy and liberal market economy during specific historical periods. Taking the case of the Swiss banking sector, this article aims to demonstrate how the...
An early form of European champions? Banking clubs between European integration and global banking (1960s-1990s) [0.03%]
欧洲一体化与全球银行业的早期冠军?银行业俱乐部(1960s-1990s)
Alexis Drach
Alexis Drach
Between the late 1950s and the mid-1970s, most large European commercial banks created European banking clubs, which were hybrid cooperative organisations meant to respond to American competition and to the progress of European integration....
Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16th-18th centuries) [0.03%]
不惜一切代价:西西里和塔巴尔卡粮食贸易与热那亚人的主导地位(16-18世纪)
Antonio Iodice,Luisa Piccinno
Antonio Iodice
This work analyses the activities of Genoese merchant communities in the grain trade in western Mediterranean markets. Our goal is to shed light on their ability to integrate into foreign lands, taking advantage of their privileged position...
'A man of particular ability': A Jewish-Genoese military contractor in the fiscal-military system [0.03%]
“才子能臣”:财政军事体制中的一个犹太-热那亚人军工承包商
Michael Martoccio
Michael Martoccio
In recent years, scholars have explored the pivotal role Jewish merchants played in feeding and arming European armies from 1500 to 1800. Yet they have ignored the problems these merchants faced when they cast outside national borders to ur...
Oil on the water: Government regulation of a carcinogen in the twentieth-century Lancashire cotton spinning industry [0.03%]
漂浮的石油:20世纪英国兰开夏郡棉纺业中政府对致癌物质的监管
David Higgins,Geoffrey Tweedale
David Higgins
In the Lancashire cotton textile industry, mule spinners were prone to a chronic and sometimes fatal skin cancer (often affecting the groin). The disease had reached epidemic proportions by the 1920s, which necessitated action by the govern...
Improving the public house in Britain, 1920-40: Sir Sydney Nevile and "social work" [0.03%]
改进英国的公共住房(1920-1940):悉尼·尼维尔爵士与“社会工作”
Alistair Mutch
Alistair Mutch
The "improved public house" movement in the inter-war years was a central part of the shift towards retailing by the brewing industry. An important part of the reform movement was the alliance between certain brewers, notably Whitbread, and...
The sources of innovation in the woollen and worsted industry of eighteenth-century Yorkshire [0.03%]
十八世纪约克郡粗纺和精纺业的创新来源
J Smail
J Smail
This article examines the economic developments that induced producers to seek our innovations during a transformative period in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The analysis examines both the increase in the scale of the typical operation a...
Compensating the workers: industrial injury and compensation in the British asbestos industry, 1930s-60s [0.03%]
补偿工人:20世纪30至60年代英国石棉工业中的工伤与赔偿问题
G Tweedale,D J Jeremy
G Tweedale
In 1931 the British government introduced pioneering legislation to combat occupational disease in the asbestos industry. A key feature was an Asbestosis Scheme for compensating workers for industrial injury and death. This article examines...
Culture as metaphor: company culture and business strategy at Raleigh Industries, c. 1945-60 [0.03%]
隐喻中的文化:约克镇工业公司 circa 1945-60年的公司文化和商业战略
R Lloyd-Jones,M J Lewis,M Eason
R Lloyd-Jones
This study of Raleigh Industries, one of the leading bicycle manufactures in the world in the immediate post-war years, argues that its business strategy was in part shaped by a managerial commitment to a dominant company culture which was ...
"Productivity on the cheap"? The "more looms" experiment and the Lancashire weaving industry during the inter-war years [0.03%]
廉价增产?“增加织机”试验与英格兰兰开夏郡纺织业在两次世界大战期间的发展变迁
S Bowden,D M Higgins
S Bowden
Two major debates in the literature, productivity performance and the decline of the cotton industry, are joined in the analysis presented in this article on the attempts to raise productivity through the introduction of the more looms per ...