There is a large body of research on drug use and drug treatment. Less studied is the geographical dispersion of drug cultivation, manufacture and movement. These activities are skewed towards rural areas for a variety of reasons. Some activities require considerable space to operate at scale. The cultivation of marijuana, coca and poppies require physical space and is most cost effective when done outdoors. Methamphetamine production also depends on a precursor chemical derived from the ephedra plant, widely grown for thousands of years in the Middle East and
common baroque style of its age the adjacent château or manor house of Wrisbergholzen (see Figure 8.1 ), residence of Baron Rudolph (Rudolf) Johann von Wrisberg (1677–1764), to the present day contains a Fliesenzimmer (faience tile room). Furnished around 1752, this room is covered top to bottom with almost 700 fine-lined tiles featuring popular motifs according to the Spanish and Dutch style, manufactured on the nearby industrial estate of Wrisbergholzen village, in what can only be called mass production. 2 Most of the emblematic patterns found on the tiles drew
, but probably too useful to be easily got rid of. I have discussed examples of such ‘cameralist’ – a second-order misnomer retained in the present work mostly for convenience and clarity – viewpoints on political oeconomies of statecraft and state capacity as seen through the lens of money, markets and manufacturing capitalism; but the problems and policies analysed in the previous pages have a much broader remit transcending the narrow boundaries framed by disciplinary labels such as scholasticism, bullionism, mercantilism, cameralism, physiocracy, classical
be existential in one way or another’ ( Boin et al, 2018 : 24). In manufactured crises , decision makers intensify warnings regarding an imminent threat, exploiting the public belief in the presence of a threat when no such threat actually exists (hence, the idea of policy overreaction style). This article contributes to the existing array of literature showing that multiple crisis response patterns are possible (for example, ’t Hart et al, 1993 ) and that modern crises develop in unseen ways; escalate rapidly; are transformed through the interdependencies of
Introduction The Fordist production model – mass production of standardised goods based on economies of scale, process standardisation and a Taylorist division of labour (semiskilled workers assigned to a single task) – was the dominant model for manufacturing from the 1920s to the 1960s. It diffused across global manufacturing and its core principles (scale, process standardisation and Taylorism) extended into services. In the 1970s and 1980s, post-Fordist production models developed in Germany, Sweden (Volvo) and Japan (Toyota) emerged on to the global
The rapid economic growth of the past few decades has radically transformed India’s labour market, bringing millions of former agricultural workers into manufacturing industries, and, more recently, the expanding service industries, such as call centres and IT companies.
Alongside this employment shift has come a change in health and health problems, as communicable diseases have become less common, while non-communicable diseases, like cardiovascular problems, and mental health issues such as stress, have increased.
This interdisciplinary work connects those two trends to offer an analysis of the impact of working conditions on the health of Indian workers that is unprecedented in scope and depth.
A tale of two models: the Wealth of Nations reconsidered ‘[C]ommerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government’, wrote Adam Smith in what eventually became an intellectual building block of economic modernity, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776, Book III, Chapter 4 ), ‘and with them, the liberty and security of individuals, among the inhabitants of the country, who had before lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbours, and of servile dependency upon their superiors’. 1 This
185 12 Layering, social risks and manufactured uncertainties in social work in Poland1 Paweł Poławski Introduction In recent decades, active labour market reforms within the European Union have reshaped the landscape of the welfare state. The transformation has involved policy and governance reorientation. The retrenchment is understood as both cost cuts and recalibration of social support aimed at improving its economic efficiency (Pierson, 2001), limiting universal social entitlements (Taylor-Gooby, 2009), placing pressure on work-based remuneration and
Bad parenting is so often blamed for Britain’s ‘broken society’, manifesting in sites as diverse as the government reaction to the riots of 2011, popular ‘entertainment’ like Supernanny and the discussion boards of Mumsnet.
This book examines how these pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic and dysfunctional families are manufactured across media, policy and public debate and how they create a powerful consensus that Britain is in the grip of a ‘parent crisis’.
It tracks how crisis talk around parenting has been used to police and discipline families who are considered to be morally deficient and socially irresponsible. Most damagingly, it has been used to justify increasingly punitive state policies towards families in the name of making ‘bad parents’ more responsible.
Is the real crisis in our perceptions rather than reality? This is essential reading for anyone engaged in policy and popular debate around parenting.
‘Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government,’ wrote Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, ‘and with them, the liberty and security of individuals.’ However, Philipp Rössner shows how, when looked at in the face of history, it has usually been the other way around.
This book follows the development of capitalism from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to modern day, casting new light on the areas where pre-modern political economies of growth and development made a difference. It shows how order and governance provided the foundation for prosperity, growth and the wealth of nations.
Written for scholars and students of economic history, this is a pioneering new study that debunks the neoliberal origin myth of how capitalism came into the world.
