W Scott Prudham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1518623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Scott Prudham |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Prudham |
| SIGNATURE | PRUDHAM W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Downsizing Nature
The logging sector in Oregon is characterized by extensive subcontracting between wood-commodity manufacturing firms and independent logging contractors. Why is this so? Considerable recent scholarship has examined the dynamics of flexible production systems, including regional contractor networks, as prominent aspects of late capitalism. Although useful, existing accounts of flexibility are inadequate to explain why logging in particular would b…
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Existing literature suggests that food, fiber, and raw material sectors differ from manufacturing in significant ways. However, there is no analytical basis for engaging the particular challenges of nature-centered production, and thus the distinct ways that industrialization proceeds in extractive and cultivation-based industries. This article presents a framework for analyzing the difference that nature makes in these industries. Nature is seen…
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Timber and Town
In the recent political furor over disposition of the remaining old‐growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, focus has been directed at the ecological shortcomings of the federal sustained yield forest management doctrine. This has occurred in part at the expense of evaluation of these policies based on social criteria. Yet the sustained yield paradigm and the post‐war compact between private capital and federal forest agencies were justified in …
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Existing literature suggests that food, fiber, and raw material sectors differ from manufacturing in significant ways. However, there is no analytical basis for engaging the particular challenges of nature-centered production, and thus the distinct ways that industrialization proceeds in extractive and cultivation-based industries. This article presents a framework for analyzing the difference that nature makes in these industries. Nature is seen…
Downsizing Nature
The logging sector in Oregon is characterized by extensive subcontracting between wood-commodity manufacturing firms and independent logging contractors. Why is this so? Considerable recent scholarship has examined the dynamics of flexible production systems, including regional contractor networks, as prominent aspects of late capitalism. Although useful, existing accounts of flexibility are inadequate to explain why logging in particular would b…
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Timber and Town
In the recent political furor over disposition of the remaining old‐growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, focus has been directed at the ecological shortcomings of the federal sustained yield forest management doctrine. This has occurred in part at the expense of evaluation of these policies based on social criteria. Yet the sustained yield paradigm and the post‐war compact between private capital and federal forest agencies were justified in …
Timber and Town
In the recent political furor over disposition of the remaining old‐growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, focus has been directed at the ecological shortcomings of the federal sustained yield forest management doctrine. This has occurred in part at the expense of evaluation of these policies based on social criteria. Yet the sustained yield paradigm and the post‐war compact between private capital and federal forest agencies were justified in …
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Existing literature suggests that food, fiber, and raw material sectors differ from manufacturing in significant ways. However, there is no analytical basis for engaging the particular challenges of nature-centered production, and thus the distinct ways that industrialization proceeds in extractive and cultivation-based industries. This article presents a framework for analyzing the difference that nature makes in these industries. Nature is seen…
Industrial Dynamics and the Problem of Nature
Downsizing Nature
The logging sector in Oregon is characterized by extensive subcontracting between wood-commodity manufacturing firms and independent logging contractors. Why is this so? Considerable recent scholarship has examined the dynamics of flexible production systems, including regional contractor networks, as prominent aspects of late capitalism. Although useful, existing accounts of flexibility are inadequate to explain why logging in particular would b…
Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Industrial organization (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Analogy (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work)