Essentials of Human Resource Management or Weavers Craft

Essentials of Human Resource Management: in Health Service Organizations

Author: Myron D Fottler

This new book focuses on state-of-the-art human resource theory and research. With emphasis on applications to real-life situations, this book views human resources management not as an isolated function, but as an integration of strategic and operational decision-making processes of the health care organization.

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Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania

Author: Adrienne D Hood

Cloth was one of the most important commodities in the early modern world, and colonial North Americans had to develop creative strategies to acquire it. Although early European settlers came from societies in which hand textile production was central to the economy, local conditions in North America interacted with traditional craft structures to create new patterns of production and consumption. The Weaver's Craft examines the development of cloth manufacture in early Pennsylvania from its roots in seventeenth-century Europe to the beginning of industrialization.

Adrienne D. Hood's focus on Pennsylvania and the long sweep of history yields a new understanding of the complexities of early American fabric production and the regional variations that led to distinct experiences of industrialization. Drawing on an extensive array of primary sources, combined with a quantitative approach, the author argues that in contrast to New England, rural Pennsylvania women spun the yarn that a small group of trained male artisans wove into cloth on a commercial basis through-out the eighteenth century. Their production was considerably augmented by consumers purchasing cheap cloth from Europe and Asia, making them active participants in a global marketplace. Hood's painstaking research and numerous illustrations of textile equipment, swatch books, and consumer goods will be of interest to both scholars and craftspeople.

Table of Contents:

	Map of Chester County, Pennsylvania
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	European Origins	15
Ch. 2	Landholding and Labor	30
Ch. 3	Flax and Wool: Fiber Production and Processing	40
Ch. 4	Spinning and Knitting	67
Ch. 5	Weaving and Cloth Finishing	85
Ch. 6	From Loom to Market: Meeting Consumer Demand	112
Ch. 7	Weaving Moves into the Mills	140
	Glossary	159
	Notes	165
	Index	217
	Acknowledgments	227