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Invisible Factories

The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain

By: Lauren A. Benton,Lauren Benton

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Invisible Factories

The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain

By: Lauren A. Benton,Lauren Benton

Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs alternative claims about its impact on industrial development. Detailed case studies of the electronics and shoe industries in Spain demonstrate the restructuring process. Benton examines the transformation of ideas about work and gender, the shifting lines of conflict between workers and employers, and growing tensions between national and regional interests. She shows that these elements of the workplace and national politics, rather than the logic of economic development, command the new industrial order. Benton asks how decentralization of production has affected workers, industrial growth, and the recasting of industrial policy. Explored in depth are the plight of women outworkers, the history of regional labor conflicts, and the evolution of national-level bargaining among unions, employers, and the state.

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252

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SUNY Press

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079140224X

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9780791402245

Cultivating Citizens

The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era

By: Lauren Kroiz

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Cultivating Citizens

The Regional Work of Art in the New Deal Era

By: Lauren Kroiz

Cultivating Citizens rethinks the aesthetics and politics of regionalism in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. During this period, painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, and John Steuart Curry formed a loose alliance as American Regionalists. Some lauded their depictions of the rural landscape and hardworking inhabitants of America's midwestern heartland. Others deemed Regionalist painting dangerous, regarding its easily understood realism as a vehicle for jingoism, chauvinism, and even fascism. Cultivating Citizens shifts the terms of this ongoing debate over subject matter and style by considering heretofore neglected Regionalist programs of art education and concepts of artistic labor."--Provided by publisher.

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310

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Univ of California Press

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0520286561

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9780520286566

A Search for Sovereignty

Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900

By: Lauren Benton

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A Search for Sovereignty

Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900

By: Lauren Benton

A Search for Sovereignty approaches world history by examining the relation of law and geography in European empires between 1400 and 1900. Lauren Benton argues that Europeans imagined imperial space as networks of corridors and enclaves, and that they constructed sovereignty in ways that merged ideas about geography and law. Conflicts over treason, piracy, convict transportation, martial law, and crime created irregular spaces of law, while also attaching legal meanings to familiar geographic categories such as rivers, oceans, islands, and mountains. The resulting legal and spatial anomalies influenced debates about imperial constitutions and international law both in the colonies and at home. This study changes our understanding of empire and its legacies and opens new perspectives on the global history of law.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107782716

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9781107782716

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Invisible Factories

Invisible Factories

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