Fraternal Capital: Peasant-Workers, Self-Made Men, and Globalization in Provincial India

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Fraternal Capital examines class, gender, and work in Tiruppur, South India, where export of knitted garments has been led by a networked fraternity of owners of working-class and Gounder caste origins, who explain their class mobility as hinging on their “toil.” This book asks how these self-made men drew from their agrarian past to turn Gounder toil into capital, and how they continue to make an entire town work for the global economy.

Fraternal Capital decenters understandings of global capitalism by linking agrarian transition with the adaptation of a singular past in the interests of accumulation. As Tiruppur shifts to global production, this book tracks ways in which gender links sexed bodies to processes of differentiation, in the tenuous search for consent to increasingly despotic work politics. Tiruppur demonstrates the importance of gender and geography to the globalization of capital as it affects the lives of working people in provincial India and elsewhere. This book links the political economy of development to postcolonial and cultural studies, rooting the analysis of globalization ethnographically and geographically. Fraternal Capital provides a window into a decentralized capitalism and thereby critiques macroeconomic portrayals of globalization by showing how history, geography, gender, and work practice shape local sites of global production.

For orders from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, please e-mail Permanent Black at perblack@ndb.vsnl.net.in.

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Find out how today's top technology-based companies get the greatest return on their intellectual property, and how you can too.

A total hands-on guide to cutting-edge technology licensing strategies

Russell Parr and Patrick Sullivan, along with a team of distinguished experts working at the frontlines of technology licensing, reveal how today's top technology-based companies are maximizing the value of and return on their intellectual property. They also offer hands-on advice and guidance on how you can do the same in your company. With the help of numerous real-life case studies that demonstrate licensing strategies now used at DuPont, Xerox, Kodak, AlliedSignal, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical, and other industry leaders, they tell you everything you need to know to:

Determine where technology licensing best fits in your company's overall business strategies
Establish a successful licensing program tailored to your company's vision and goals
Create and successfully manage a technology portfolio
Quickly and easily calculate royalty rates
Put the lessons learned at top technology-based companies to work in your company

"Technology licensing strategies are now key instruments for accomplishing the corporate visions set forth by future-thinking companies. Look at any corporate mission statement and you will find the seeds of a strategy-based technology licensing program." —Russell Parr and Patrick Sullivan

In today's volatile, hypercompetitive global marketplace, cooperation and the sharing of intellectual property are keys to success. Of course, one of the most valuable forms of intellectual property is technology. More often than not, innovation and increased market penetration are the direct result of combining technologies from a variety of sources. Consequently, many companies have begun to devote more and more of their strategic efforts to discovering the best ways to manage technology so as to maximize value and return. For instance, AT&T has set up an independent business group to manage its intellectual property as a separate profit center, while other companies continue to run licensing through their legal and R&D departments. Which approach makes the most sense for your company, and why? Get the answers to these questions and many others in Technology Licensing.

In this valuable book, Russell Parr and Patrick Sullivan, along with a distinguished team of contributing experts, reveal the licensing strategies now being used at DuPont, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard, Dow Chemical, Kodak, and other top multinational corporations. They also provide practical prescriptions for determining where technology licensing belongs on your organizational chart and for establishing a successful licensing program tailored to your company's vision and goals.

Taking a practical hands-on approach to technology licensing, they tell you what you need to know about:

Creating and managing technology portfolios
Types of licenses—with a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each in various business contexts
Successful licensing strategies now used at top technology-based companies
Royalty rate determination methods
And more

Drawing upon the expertise of those on the frontlines of technology licensing, Technology Licensing tells you how today's top technology-based firms maximize the value of their intellectual property and how your company can too.

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China's largest metropolis, Shanghai, has undergone a decade of far-reaching economic and social transformation. This book presents an evocative and richly nuanced series of ethnographic perspectives of the city's shifting sociological landscape in this period of transition. It is based upon research conducted over the past 10 years. The topics explored range from the perceived consequences of Shanghai's more porous boundaries to intra-national and global flows of people, capital and cultural items, to notions of 'Shanghaiese' identity, the impact of mass consumerism and the work of share dealers in Shanghai's recently recreated stock exchange. The book builds upwards from street level perspectives and stresses ways in which the lives of Shanghai citizens are implicated with wider historical, political and economic phenomena.

Shanghai in Transition; Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

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Shanghai in Transition; Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis
JOS GAMBLE
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MU4XJC

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African American Empowerment .......2005-10-08

James Jennings is a valued member in the African American community, his contributions are culturally constructive, professionally progressive, and economically empowering.

We support him because his goal is to empower us.

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Empowerment Of Black America
Tim Pryor
Manufacturer: Brittney Press Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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The launching pad for this book is Washington's hypothesis that total organization of Black Americans is the precondition for their economic empowerment. The author proposes a plan called TENYBI, the acronym for Ten-Year Black Initiative that will initially be spearheaded and underwritten by America's 851,000 Black-owned businesses. Thus, Black America will have economic leadership as part of its leadership corps for the first in its over 135-year history. The benefits to inure from TENYBI are reclamation of Black youth, a reduction of the deficit in higher education, and an increase in the number of businesses and total individual income. A world-class National Black Monument in Washington, D.C., will eternalize all Blacks in America since 1619 and their indispensability in the making of America.

The Rise of Black-Empowerment Theology in America : Remembering an Era

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The Rise of Black-Empowerment Theology in America : Remembering an Era
Douglas E Thomas
Manufacturer: Guidinglight Books International
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Binding: Paperback

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Black-Empowerment Theology is a spiritual biography that chronicles the life of James Cone -- the father of Black Theology. He was the first African American to write a text book on Black theology. This book outlines the approach and stategy he took in systematically structuring the precious beliefs advocated by Africans in America.

America's leading black philanthropists: giving back is one of the major tenets of the Black Enterprise Declaration of Financial Empowerment. In doing ... REPORT) : An article from: Black Enterprise

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America's leading black philanthropists: giving back is one of the major tenets of the Black Enterprise Declaration of Financial Empowerment. In doing ... REPORT) : An article from: Black Enterprise
Carolyn M. Brown
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from Black Enterprise, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2005. The length of the article is 5646 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: America's leading black philanthropists: giving back is one of the major tenets of the Black Enterprise Declaration of Financial Empowerment. In doing so, we advocate using money to develop our community and build wealth. On the following pages meet America's largest, and most strategic, black philanthropists.(SPECIAL REPORT)
Author: Carolyn M. Brown
Publication: Black Enterprise (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 36 Issue: 1 Page: 105(11)

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Nice small book

Barry Farber's Guide To Handling Sales Objections
Barry J. Farber
Manufacturer: Career Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Barry Farber's Guide to Handling Sales Objections is about the one thing that many salespeople-especially those just starting out-fear the most: Objections. That's when the customer says, "I can't buy your product or service because..." While every salesperson understands that objections are part of the territory, they are not always ready to handle every one of them on the spot. Barry Farber not only knows how to handle any objection that can arise, he knows the difference between techniques that work and tricks intended to fool customers into buying, but which usually end up losing the sale. Its handy size makes it easy for any salesperson to carry along on the call, giving him or her the ammunition he or she needs when those fateful objections come up...and they always do. Each chapter explains a particular family of objections, why they come up, how to uncover the prospect's real concerns, and how to close the sale.

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Nice small book .......2004-10-30

The author lists five categories of sales objections: * Appointment Objections * Price Objections * Objections to Time * Exprience * Credentials and * Need. It is arguable if this is enough, but what doesn't seem enough are the methods he cites for handling them (exactly two): a solid six-step method, and (with reservations) the old feel-felt-found formula. It would have been a great book if it would have named even more examples and used them to build a sales (questioning) structure to prevent them from showing up in the first place.

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The deregulation of financial markets in various nations in the 1980s brought about not only a qualitative change in their operation but also a greater integration among these markets. These changes enabled the free flow of financial resources across borders, and private and public institutions in each economy now have the ability to draw on the strengths of foreign markets to meet their individual needs. But many observers in Japan, Europe, North America and elsewhere fear that the new freedom has contributed to a greater instability in individual markets and the transmission of these swings to other markets. This book examines the ramifications of these trends.

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Burundi Business Law Handbook
Emerging Markets Investment Center
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Library Binding
ASIN: 0739704273

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking.

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Burundi Business Law Handbook
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739719270

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This law handbook contains information on basic business legislation, laws and regulatoins affecting export-import, business, foreign investments, property rights, taxation and banking. (Updated annually)

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Burundi Business Law Handbook
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0739745271

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Burundi Business Law Handbook
USA IBP
Manufacturer: BERTRAMS PRINT ON DE
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000K3A21Y

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Organizing Around Intelligence introduces a new mindset and awareness in leading and managing human organizations. This paradigm shift is vital as humankind enters the intelligence era (the knowledge economy). Individual human beings are becoming better informed and educated. They carry knowledge structures of very high quality. Consequently, their interaction dynamic is different and they have to be managed differently. The intelligent organization theory discussed in this book emphasizes the significance of focusing on the human thinking system and the orgmind as the primary strategy. The approach is to organize around intelligence and collective intelligence. Both the human organization and its interacting agents are complex adaptive systems. The importance of awareness and mindfulness, as well as the intelligent person model, is also presented. This fresh leadership and management philosophy contains many new concepts that are not known to human organizations today.

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Provides extensive analysis of cases in the Hamilton casebook. Included in the case analyses are the case procedural basis, fact, issues, decision and rationale, and analysis. Additional quick memory aids include headnotes, instant facts, black letter rules, case vocabulary, and graphics. Each chapter begins with an introduction of its concepts presented in simple terms, and an alphabetical table of cases is provided.

High Court Case Summaries on Securities Regulation (Keyed to Cox, Fourth Edition)

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High Court Case Summaries on Securities Regulation (Keyed to Cox, Fourth Edition)
West
Manufacturer: West Group
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0314168907

Book Description

Cox's High Court Case Summaries on Securities Regulation contain well-prepared briefs for each major case in Cox's casebook on Securities Regulation. High Court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case in a clear, concise manner. While prepared briefs can never substitute for the insight gained by actually reading a case, these briefs will help readers to identify, understand, and absorb the core,take away, knowledge from each case. Moreover, these briefs are followed by a useful legal analysis, which provides extra tips and contextual background about each case, connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook. This book also supplies case vocabulary, which defines new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance the reader's recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays an entertaining visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.

High Court Case Summaries: Corporation Finance (High Court Case Summaries)

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High Court Case Summaries: Corporation Finance (High Court Case Summaries)
Dana L. Blatt
Manufacturer: West Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTNFKO

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This book discusses the links between primary commodity prices and the OECD rate of unemployment. In particular, it formalizes and estimates a macroeconomic model which, by endogenizing both the OECD rate of unemployment and primary commodity prices, is capable of accounting for the feedback running from the primary market to the OECD economy. Simulations are also performed to provide insights into the propagation mechanism of an oil price shock and the roles played by various factors to determine the final effect.

Unemployment and Primary Commodity Prices : Theory and Evidence in a Global Perspective

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Unemployment and Primary Commodity Prices : Theory and Evidence in a Global Perspective
Annalisa Cristini
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTF4TY

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This examination of the demutualization of stock exchanges outlines the process by which a nonprofit, member-owned mutual organization is transformed into a for-profit shareholder corporation. The general problems this process brings about and how they might be solved are detailed. In particular, this book looks at how regulatory oversight needs to be transferred to a government regulator.

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Insightful!

The ultmate primer on selling

Hardball Selling: How to Turn the Pressure On, Without Turning Your Customer Off
Robert L. Shook
Manufacturer: Sourcebooks
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1402201079

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Insightful!.......2005-09-08

The mere mention of "high-pressure sales tactics" makes most sales managers cringe. But the problem, says veteran salesman and author Robert L. Shook, isn't that salespeople are using such tactics, but that they are using them incorrectly. Legions of sales professionals have learned to back away from tough and aggressive techniques that work. In fact, if you use hardball techniques properly, your prospects will never know. Shook suggests that the "relationship selling" pendulum has now swung so far in one direction that it's hurting sales. Unless you give your prospect the motivation to buy, you'll leave the office with a smile but without a check. Shook believes in keeping the upper hand, guiding the client along and not backing down an inch when it comes to facing "not now" excuses. As his many colorful sales anecdotes suggest, you can't deny the effectiveness of a strong approach when it comes to closing the deal. How much you like this book, however, will probably depend on how much you hate pushy salespeople. That said, we find that the book is full of good ideas. And if you don't snap it up soon you may miss your only opportunity...well, you know the rest.

The ultmate primer on selling.......2004-05-14

This book will change your life........

Hardball Selling: How to Turn the Pressure on Without Turning Your Customer Off

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This one made me money
Probably the best book on selling ever written
Hardball selling: How to turn the pressure on without turnin
I'd sure never want to meet Bob Shook in a dark alley
This is the best book on selling I've ever read

Hardball Selling: How to Turn the Pressure on Without Turning Your Customer Off
Robert L. Shook
Manufacturer: Quill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0688109608

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This one made me money.......2003-04-28

My sales manager was God, he took me from nothing to a couple of thousand a month. He recommended this book, I read it, and within six months I was the sales manager and set a record for Utah and Colorado states with a 75 year old company. Criticize the title or the content, but I provide better customer service and close more sales since heeding it's advice. I've cold called every 10 or more employee private company in Salt Lake City and Denver and did better than anyone else had in 75 years. Thank you Mr. Shook.

Probably the best book on selling ever written.......2002-02-25

This book doesn't just give you cheap tricks, which are re-used in every other book. Hardball breaks new ground with its current and proven sales processes, and tells you exactly how to do it. In my opinion, this could just as easily been called the Sales Bible.

Hardball selling: How to turn the pressure on without turnin.......2001-09-05

This was a real disappointment. If you have read the "show me how to sell" books on selling, like Selling for Dummies, Closing For Dummies, The sales Bible, or Selling is a Woman's game, you'll be disappointed too. This book is all talk and no action. It tells you how and doesn't give examples to show you how. IT is bland and boring and only for peole who like to read Text books. Stick to the action stuff!

I'd sure never want to meet Bob Shook in a dark alley.......1999-10-14

I love this book. I read it first about six years ago, and found it very refreshing. Hard core sales gets to everyone eventually and thus requires hard core attitude. Is the product good enough? Am I good enough? Does the customer even need this? None of this even matters! If I remember correctly, the first line of the book reads, "America has been supplied with a new whipping boy, the salesman." Learn how whip your prospect into submission, get them into a headlock and sign that contract! Bob will pull you out of your rut and send you hurtling towards success.

This is the best book on selling I've ever read.......1999-04-29

The other authors tell you how to "manipulate" and "intimidate"--this simply doesn't work anymore. This book describes how to take control of a sales presentation and provides excellent anecdotes. This is a must read for any salesperson.

Book Description

SMART BUSINESS SOLUTIONS FOR DIRECT MARKETING AND CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT is a solutions-oriented business book focused on the small business (1 to 49 employees) market. With an emphasis on providing the tools for success, this volume provides the essential knowledge and skills needed to plan and execute direct marketing and manage customers. The book includes detailed information on best practices in direct marketing and customer management to help small business grow. While the book uses Microsoft(r) technologies as illustrative examples (including Microsoft Office Small Business Tools, part of the Microsoft Office 2000 suites), it is not a software features book. Rather, it is a book that shows how effective use of technology and a good understanding of direct marketing and customer management principles can help a small business grow. The author is a noted expert in direct marketing and customer management.

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Without Customers your biz is dead. Get this book to live!.......1999-08-05

The Direct Marketing and Customer Management small businessbook is full of practical ways to grow your business through one ofits most important assets - customers.

The book is full of case studies and shows you how other small businesses have used technology. Part 1 covers, direct marketing that gets results and goes through using mailing lists, direct-mail copy, printing and mailing and other useful topics. Part 2 covers customer management that builds sales and loyalty and goes through, "the pulse of the customer", "hiring and training a customer orientated staff", "the web and your customer" and other hot topics.. Part 3 contains two appendixes of Direct-Marketing resources and "Customer-Service Resources"

This book is fun to read and more importantly gives you information you can even do as you read the book. Nothing in business is gauranteed. But this book sure comes close to guaranteeing that your business will grow and your customers will make that happen.

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One of the greatest dilemmas facing Muslims today is the fact that Muslim culture, which originated many centuries ago, is often seemingly incompatible with the culture of the modern Western world, and the features associated with it - technological progress, consumerism, and new electronic communication, all of which have the potential for a homogenizing effect on any culture. This book explores many key aspects of the globalisation process, discussing how Muslim countries are coping with the encounter with globalisation, as well as considering how the West is responding to Islam.

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Special Features: Tax Reform Promoting Employment and Growth

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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Investment & Business Guide (Russian Regional Investment & Business Guides)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739729640

Book Description

This investment and business guide contains basic information on economy, business & investment climate and opportunities in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities, including, export-import, industrial development, banking & finance, government and business contacts. The guide also provides listing and contact information for major industrial, trade, service and other companies in the region, as well as information on selected export-import, business and investment opportunities.

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Regional Investment and Business Guide (World Investment and Business Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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Binding: Paperback

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