Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "capitalism"
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Citizens of the Chemical Complex: Industrial Expertise and Science Philanthropy in Imperial and Weimar Germany
(2014-02-25)This dissertation is a social and cultural history of chemical industrialists and their role in the development of both science and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses on the case of Germany, ... -
Food Production during the Transition to Capitalism: A Comparative Political Economy of Russia and China
(2012-09-14)The principal analytical objective of this dissertation is the assessment of changes in the political economy of food production during the transition from socialism to capitalism in Russia and China. The dissertation is ... -
Imperial Crucible: Alcoa and the Transimperial History of American Capitalism, 1888-1953
(2022-07-18)Imperial Crucible tells the story of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) from the company’s founding in Pittsburgh in 1888 through to the 1950s. Although scholars have long contended that American multinational ... -
Institutional change in varieties of capitalism
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2008)Contemporary approaches to varieties to capitalism are often criticized for neglecting issues of institutional change. This paper develops an approach to institutional change more extended than the one provided in Hall and ... -
Making a Workforce, Unmaking a Working Class: The Creation of a Human Capital Society in Houston, 1900-1980
(2014-06-06)This dissertation explains how increased educational attainment became the most politically viable means of reducing economic inequality in the postwar United States. Using Houston as a case study, the dissertation argues ... -
The Owners of the Map: motorcycle taxi drivers, mobility, and politics in Bangkok
(2013-10-14)This dissertation offers an ethnography of motorcycle taxi drivers: Bangkok's most important and informal network of everyday mobility. Drawing on over eight years of experience in the region, six months of archival research, ... -
The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life
(2013-10-14)A history of statistical economic indicators in America, this dissertation uncovers the protracted struggle which took place in the nineteenth century over how economic life should be quantified, how social progress should ... -
Theory From the South: Or, How Europe is Evolving Toward Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)‘The Global South’ has become a shorthand for the world of non-European, postcolonial peoples. Synonymous with uncertain development, unorthodox economies, failed states, and nations fraught with corruption, poverty, and ... -
Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Episodes from the History of Deviance
(2012-11-14)This dissertation is a cultural history of deviance in the United States. I use a series of case studies to examine the way deviant figures have been represented and experienced within American culture. The dissertation ...