Live Better Electrically

Author : Richard F. Hirsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521524717

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Technology and Transformation in the American Electric Utility Industry by Richard F. Hirsh Pdf

This book illuminates the role of technological stagnation in the decline of the American electric utility industry in the late 1960s and 1970s. Unlike other interpreters of the industry's woes, Professor Hirsh argues that a long and successful history of managing a conventional technology set the stage for the industry's deterioration. After improving steadily for decades, the technology that brought unequalled productivity growth to the industry appeared to stall in the late 1960s, making it impossible to mitigate the economic and regulatory assaults of the 1970s. Unfortunately, most managers did not recognize (or did not want to believe) the severity of the technological problems they faced, and they chose to focus instead on issues (usually financial or public relations) that appeared more manageable. Partly as a result of this lack of attention to technological issues, the industry found itself in the 1980s challenged by the prospects of deregulation and restructuring.

Author : Anita Plath Helle
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0472069276

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The Unraveling Archive by Anita Plath Helle Pdf

A collection of eleven essays on Plath's writing with the archive as its informing matrix.

Author : Adam Rome
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521804906

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The Bulldozer in the Countryside by Adam Rome Pdf

Scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.

Author : William L. Bird
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Advertising
ISBN : 0810115859

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"Better Living" by William L. Bird Pdf

""Better Living": Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935-1955 is a history of how big business learned to be both entertaining and persuasive when talking to the public. Examining the years from the Depression to postwar prosperity, "Better Living" follows the dissemination of a politically competitive claim of "more," "new," and "better" in industry and in life. Beginning with the changes in business-government relations during the New Deal, this study looks at the ways in which politically active corporations and their leaders learned how to speak - at a time when speaking was not enough." "Using archival sources such as the NBC, Ford Motor Company, DuPont, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt collections, William L. Bird, Jr., establishes the importance of industrial films and their role in public relations and employee relations, as well as the use of dramatic radio productions in corporate public relations. The author examines the interplay between general mass radio and print advertising, radio program sponsorship and scriptwriting, sponsored motion pictures and television entertainment, as well as exhibitions and industrial fairs and the role these media played in shaping ideas about American business and political and cultural institutions in this country for the decades to come." --Book Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1957-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556000806919

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Atkinson's Evening Post and Philadelphia Saturday News by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2490 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104243797

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102255959

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Report by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541965805

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The Lives, Times and Significant Achievements of US Presidents Reagan, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Hoover | US History for Kids Junior Scholars Edition | Children's American History by Baby Professor Pdf

Read about the significant achievements of US Presidents Reagan, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Hoover. Not only that, learn from their humble beginnings and how they persevered to become the presidents America loved. It is important to study biographies to better understand how the decisions of one man can influence a nation. Go ahead and grab a copy today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
ISBN : NYPL:33433108167853

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Electrical Dealer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Copper industry and trade
ISBN : IND:30000098306800

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Copper Industry Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Casey P. Cater
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986898

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Regenerating Dixie by Casey P. Cater Pdf

Regenerating Dixieis the first book that traces the electrification of the US South from the 1880s to the 1970s. It emphasizes that electricity was not solely the result of technological innovation or federal intervention. Instead, it was a multifaceted process that influenced, and was influenced by, environmental alterations, political machinations, business practices, and social matters. Although it generally hewed to national and global patterns, southern electrification charted a distinctive and instructive path and, despite orthodoxies to the contrary, stood at the cutting edge of electrification from the late 1800s onward. Its story speaks to the ways southern experiences with electrification reflected and influenced larger American models of energy development. Inasmuch as the South has something to teach us about the history of American electrification, electrification also reveals things about the South’s past. The electric industry was no mere accessory to the “New South” agenda—the ongoing project of rehabilitating Dixie after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Electricity powered industrialism, consumerism, urban growth, and war. It moved people across town, changed land- and waterscapes, stoked racial conflict, sparked political fights, and lit homes and farms. Electricity underwrote people’s daily lives across a century of southern history. But it was not simply imposed on the South. In fact, one Regenerating Dixie’s central lessons is that people have always mattered in energy history. The story of southern electrification is part of the broader struggle for democracy in the American past and includes a range of expected and unexpected actors and events. It also offers insights into our current predicaments with matters of energy and sustainability.

Author : Henry Robinson Luce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Business
ISBN : UCR:31210003726849

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Fortune by Henry Robinson Luce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119625056

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Promotional Practices by Public Utilities and Their Impact Upon Small Business, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies of ... , 90-2, Pursuant to H. Res. 53 ... , Feb. 1; March 12, 19; May 13; June 28; July 15 and 16, 1968 by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Public utilities
ISBN : LOC:00220927489

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Promotional Practices by Public Utilities and Their Impact Upon Small Business by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Activities of Regulatory Agencies Pdf

Considers effect of public utilities' promotional practices upon small business oil heat distributors. Appendix includes report "Competitive Rates and Practices by Electric Utilities, An Economic Analysis," by Irwin M. Stelzer, Bruce C. Netschert and Abraham Gerber, 1968 (p. A171-A289).

Author : Rachele Dini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501367373

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“All-Electric” Narratives by Rachele Dini Pdf

Winner of the 2023 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies “All-Electric” Narratives is the first in-depth study of time-saving electrical appliances in American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens between 1945, when the “all-electric” home came to be associated with the nation's hard-won victory, and 2020, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects in the 21st century. The appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification and time-saving comprises a crucial, but overlooked, element in 20th-century literary forms and genres including Beat literature, Black American literature, second-wave feminist fiction, science fiction, and postmodernist fiction. Through close-readings of dozens of literary texts alongside print and television ads from this period, Dini shows how U.S. writers have unearthed the paradoxes inherent to claims of appliances' capacity to “give back” time to their user, transport them into a technologically-progressive future, or “return” them to some pastoral past. In so doing, she reveals literary appliances' role in raising questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanization, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.