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Volta Redonda is a Brazilian steel town founded in the 1940s by dictator Getúlio Vargas on an ex-coffee valley as a powerful symbol of Brazilian modernization. The city’s economy, and consequently its citizen’s lives, revolves around the Companha Siderurgica Nacional (CSN), the biggest industrial complex in Latin America. Although the glory days of the CSN have long passed, the company still controls life in Volta Redonda today, creating as much dispossession as wealth for the community. Brazilian Steel Town tells the story of the people tied to this ailing giant – of their fears, hopes, and everyday struggles.

Steel industry and trade --- History. --- Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional --- Volta Redonda (Brazil) --- Economic conditions. --- Financialization of Economics. --- Financialization of Politics. --- Financialization. --- Global Capitalism. --- Global Economic Re-structuring. --- Globalization. --- Heavy Industry. --- Labor. --- Volta Redonda. --- Working Class Livelihood.

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The story of Cape Breton presents an opportunity to reflect on how industrialization and deindustrialization have shaped human experiences. Contributors capture the vital elements of a region on the rural resource frontier and place the island within broad transnational networks such as the Celtic music revival, the Black diaspora, and more.

Deindustrialization. --- scholarly collection, Canadian history, Canadian studies, labour history, the Maritimes, labour studies, labour and industrial relations, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 20th century, industrial capitalism, deindustrialization, trade unions, unionization, industrial unionism, tourism, tourist industry, Black diaspora, Indigenous relations, globalization, transnationalism, Atlantic Canada, financial capitalism, Celtic music, coal trade, mining, heavy industry, sports history, cricket, natural resources, resource extraction.

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This book addresses two of the most important trends in political economy during the last two decades - globalization and decentralization - in the context of the world's most rapidly growing economic power, China. The intent is to provide a better understanding of how local political and economic institutions shape the ability of Chinese state-owned firms to utilize foreign direct investment (FDI) to remake themselves in the transition from inefficient and technologically backward firms into powerful national champions. In a global economy, the author argues, local governments are increasingly the agents of industrial transformation at the level of the firm. Local institutions are durable over time, and they have important economic consequences. Through an analysis of five Chinese regions, the treatment seeks to specify the opportunities and constraints that alternative institutional structures create, how they change over time, and ultimately, how they prepare Chinese firms for the challenge of global competition.

Automobile industry and trade --- Industrial policy --- Investments, Foreign --- Regional planning --- S10/0251 --- S10/0430 --- S10/0521 --- Capital exports --- Capital imports --- FDI (Foreign direct investment) --- Foreign direct investment --- Foreign investment --- Foreign investments --- International investment --- Offshore investments --- Outward investments --- Capital movements --- Investments --- Automotive industry --- Motor vehicle industry --- Government policy --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: since 1989 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Investment --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Heavy industry --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Charles Maier, one of the most prominent contemporary scholars of European history, published Recasting Bourgeois Europe as his first book in 1975. Based on extensive archival research, the book examines how European societies progressed from a moment of social vulnerability to one of political and economic stabilization.Arguing that a common trajectory calls for a multi country analysis, Maier provides a comparative history of three European nations and argues that they did not simply return to a prewar status quo, but achieved a new balance of state authority and interest group representation. While most previous accounts presented the decade as a prelude to the Depression and dictatorships, Maier suggests that the stabilization of the 1920s, vulnerable as it was, foreshadowed the more enduring political stability achieved after World War II.The immense and ambitious scope of this book, its ability to follow diverse histories in detail, and its effort to explain stabilization-and not just revolution or breakdown-have made it a classic of European history.

Europe --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Aristide Briand. --- Benito Mussolini. --- Cartel des Gauches. --- Europe. --- Fascists. --- France. --- Francesco Saverio Nitti. --- Georges Clemenceau. --- Germany. --- Giovanni Giolitti. --- Gustav Stresemann. --- Italy. --- Joseph Wirth. --- Radical Socialist Party. --- Raymond Poincar. --- Ruhr conflict. --- Social Democratic Party. --- Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. --- World War II. --- big business. --- bourgeois. --- bourgeoisie. --- capitalism. --- class divisions. --- class. --- coal industry. --- coalitions. --- conservatives. --- corporatism. --- deflation. --- economic restructuring. --- economic stabilization. --- elections. --- elites. --- fascism. --- heavy industry. --- inflation. --- interest groups. --- labor market. --- left. --- liberalism. --- majorities. --- mass communications. --- moderation. --- nationalism. --- parliamentary elections. --- parliamentary politics. --- parliaments. --- political ecology. --- political economy. --- political stabilization. --- politics. --- recession. --- reparations. --- revaluation. --- social conflict. --- social democracy. --- social vulnerability. --- socialists. --- socialization. --- sovereignty. --- stability. --- state authority. --- taxes. --- terrorism. --- unions.

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Industrial energy efficiency has been recognized as a major contributor, in the broader set of industrial resources, to improved sustainability and circular economy. Nevertheless, the uptake of energy efficiency measures and practices is still quite low, due to the existence of several barriers. Research has broadly discussed them, together with their drivers. More recently, many researchers have highlighted the existence of several benefits, beyond mere energy savings, stemming from the adoption of such measures, for several stakeholders involved in the value chain of energy efficiency solutions. Nevertheless, a deep understanding of the relationships between the use of the energy resource and other resources in industry, together with the most important factors for the uptake of such measures—also in light of the implications on the industrial operations—is still lacking. However, such understanding could further stimulate the adoption of solutions for improved industrial energy efficiency and sustainability.

History of engineering & technology --- contaminated soil --- polluted soil --- thermal desorption --- thermal remediation --- energy analysis and exergy analysis --- energy saving --- heat integration --- operability --- retrofit --- oil refinery --- interviews --- heat transfer --- waste heat recovery --- dusty flue gas --- granular bed --- buried tubes --- iron and steel industry --- techno-economic pathways --- decarbonization --- CO2 emissions --- carbon abatement measures --- construction --- building --- supply chain --- roadmap --- heavy industry --- carbon abatement --- emissions reduction --- climate transition --- multi-agent cooperation --- reduced-dimension Q(λ) --- optimal carbon-energy combined-flow --- energy efficiency --- compressed air systems --- energy efficiency measures --- nonenergy benefits --- assessment factors --- industrial energy efficiency --- energy efficiency culture --- energy efficiency practices --- energy management --- cogeneration --- trigeneration --- sustainability --- tropical climate country --- biomass --- advanced exergoeconomic analysis --- spray dryer --- exergy destruction cost rate --- energy management practices --- assessment model