An Overview of the Construction Industry Today -- Classical Times -- Medieval Times - The Foundation of the Industry -- The Renaissance 1350 - -- - 17th Century England -- The American Colonies 17th C. -- Industrial Revolution - Great Britain 18th C. -- American Colonies 18th C. -- Developments...

American manufacturing is on life support--at least, that's what most people think. The exodus of jobs to China and other foreign markets is irreversible, and anything that is built here requires specialized skills the average worker couldn't hope to gain. Not so, says Dan Dimicco, chairman and...

Development and struggle, 1802-1840 -- Brier Hill coal and "merchantable" pig iron, 1840-1856 -- Railroads, coal, iron, and war, 1856-1865 -- Expansion and depression, 1865-1879 -- The pressure of steel, 1879-1894 -- Steel, consolidation, and the fall of iron, 1894-1913

This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the U.S. scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned...

Introduction: Visions of Chicago -- Industrial decline and the rise of the suburbs -- Building the suburban factory and industrial decline in postwar Chicago -- Blight and the transformation of industrial property -- Industrial property and blight in the 1950s -- Industrial renewal and land...