Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- TABLES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 HYPERINFLATION AND STABILIZATION -- 2 POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND -- 3 STABILIZATION POLICY CHOICES IN POST-LIBERATION GREECE -- 4 THE "VARVARESSOS EXPERIMENT -- 5 THE LONDON AGREEMENT OF...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Casting Empire -- I. Very Particularly Situated -- 2. Capitalists in the Neighborhood -- 3. Just a Minute -- 4. Where Are These Records? -- 5. The "Saints" Come Marching In -- 6. Projecting Identities -- 7. Casting Labor in the Imperial...

This is a major comparative study of big business in the three leading European nations across the course of the 20th Century. Drawing on a carefully constructed sample of leading companies from the UK, France, and Germany, the author analyses the relationship between corporate and national...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Insuring Britain -- 2 Regulated Insurance Offices -- 3 Doing Business -- 4 Death and the Actuary -- 5 Death and the Salesman -- 6 Consuming Interest -- 7 Little Piles of Savings -- 8 Victorian Gatekeeping --...

This is the final volume in the Historical Directory of Trade Unions series. It proves a comprehensive list of all British unions that operated within the building, construction, chemical, dock, maritime, engineering, government, mining, quarry, and shipbuilding industries.

Offers a theoretical and empirical perspective on the value, potential and contribution that qualitative research methodologies bring to the analysis of housing policy issues within an international context. This book also includes discussion of specific methodological challenges and ethical...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Insets -- List of Abbreviations, Acronyms and Organisational Names -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Labour Unionism in the Financial Services Sector: Struggling for Rights and Representation -- 2 Historical Genesis and Development of Labour...

During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world. Powers of Persuasion tells the story of this dynamic, exhilarating era, with pen portraits of the personalities involved, anecdotes, and case histories - written from the inside by one of the industry's...

What can diversity management offer those concerned with ethnic inequality, racial discrimination, and issues of social and economic inclusion and exclusion? In this book, John Wrench traces the emergence of diversity management, highlights recent issues and trends, and considers the future...

"New World Economies is a valuable addition to the body of literature about economic development in eighteenth-century North America, and a much-needed comparative study of the British and French colonies. Egnal presents a cogent explanation for why the staple export thesis has not adequately...