The problem of de-industrialization has undergone a decisive transmutation in the past two decades, roughly from the moment when it was linked to proto-industrialization at the Budapest Economic History Conference in 1981.1 Also interacting with the remarkable efforts of Immanuel Wallerstein and his colleagues who dated the formation of a ‘‘world economic system’’ from the expansion of European...

concluded that social systems become more uniform and societies in general become more alike as they industrialize. While the convergence hypothesis has generated a good deal of discussion and controversy in the intervening fifteen years, reports of empirical tests of the concept have been limited. This paper summarizes such an attempt utilizing the techniques of cross-national research across ...

This paper attempts to propose hybrid methodology of compiling water resource extended input-output (IO) table at county level (According to administrative structure of China, a county is subordinate to its province, and provincial level is parallel to state level of other countries). By combining Non-Survey-based RAS-technique for possible iterated results and Partial-Survey-based current situ...

The rapid industrialization, migration and urbanization processes in Puerto Rico since 1940 have been responsible for the increase in the rate of female employment from 22.1% in 1960 to 27.8% in 1980, while the rate of male employment has fallen. This rise in female employment is significant in an era of growing unemployment and economic crises. There is a tendency for management to prefer yo...

Evaluation of the effects of the public health movement in the United States during the past thirty years shows that the results have been attained, for the most part, with respect to the communicable and infectious diseases, and at the younger ages of life. This is particularly evident when the evaluation is concerned with an analysis of mortality rates. The infant mortality rate, for example,...

The industrial transformation of the American Midwest during the mid-nineteenth century played a considerable role at a critical period in the emergence of an integrated, national economy. The Midwest's significance lies not only in its obvious central location but also in the apparently paradoxical industrial development of a region that initially had such a noticeable comparative advantage in...

Under the background of rapid urbanization and industrialization development, in order to satisfy increasing demand residents for domestic water, establishment water source protection zone is most effective way protect resources at present. However, influence on social economic development could not be ignored. The article analyzes delimitation economy such as ecological migration, urban munici...

Before the industrialization of agriculture, farming was inherently organic and locally supplied as food processing was in an incipient stage. Industrialization and the subsequent Green Revolution gave rise to the organic movement which protested the use of DDT and other synthetic pesticides and herbicides. Currently, the locavore movement in the United States has been gaining traction as inter...

ith hindsight one of the achievements of the rich countries has been to reconcile tremendous social changes with remarkable improvements in health. For instance, the life-expectancy for French women has increased from 35 years to 83 years since the eve of the French Revolution (Appendix table 1). Despite industrialisation, urbanisation and rural de-population, which have changed the conditions ...