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Women in business: Gender and commercial space in nineteenth‐century Glasgow

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on women entrepreneurs in a large British city, we examine how women's commercially listed businesses populated that city. Using commercial property rental records, our study allows us to understand sectoral variation and the distribution of businesses across the city and to assess both the absolute and relative contribution of women ...
Graeme Acheson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
wiley   +1 more source

Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
wiley   +1 more source

Geodynamics of high-speed railway

Transportation Geotechnics, 2018
Abstract High-speed railway is one kind of important transportation infrastructures developed in many countries worldwide, and it has significant benefits on both economic development and social progress. The most obvious feature distinguishing the high-speed railway from the conventional railway is its high train operation speed, and this leads to ...
Xuecheng Bian   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

High-Speed Railway

2013
Starting with the opening of the first Shinkansen line between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, high-speed rail transport, functioning at speeds up and above 300 km/h, has been built in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Scandinavia, Belgium and the Netherlands.
openaire   +1 more source

High-Speed Railways in Spain

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2011
The Spanish high-speed railway (HSR) network has developed swiftly over the past few years. In less than two decades, this network has already become the second longest in Europe and the third in the world ranking, and the network continues to grow. Given this situation and given that the Spanish HSR system is considered by several governments as an ...
M. Sánchez-Borràs   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

High-Speed Railway in Yunnan Province: The Impacts of High-Speed Railway on Urban Economic Development

2020
In recent years, the rapid development of China’s high-speed railway has brought great impact on regional economic development. This paper evaluates the impact of Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway on the economic and social development of cities along Yunnan Province from two aspects: direct effect and indirect effect.
Lili Hu, Ming Guo, Yunshuo Liu, Long Ye
openaire   +1 more source

The High-Speed Railway

2002
First thoughts In November 1990 about 500 guests assembled for a 3day conference on high-speed railways at the Pulkovo hotel complex at Leningrad. This was the second such conference; the first had been a year earlier and merely set out a few inviting concepts, whereas this second meeting was to hear proposals and discuss plans.
openaire   +1 more source

Mechatronic Solutions for High Speed Railway Vehicles

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2000
Abstract This paper presents recent developments in the study of active steering for railway wheels. It demonstrates the potential benefits from this form of active control and studies what could be achieved when modern control techniques are used on the vehicles via mechatronic components.
T.X. Mei   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

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