Michael Clow
Biographic Data
| ID | 5689559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Clow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Clow |
| SIGNATURE | CLOW M |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Thomas University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Commit Sociology
This article elaborates how C. Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination” invites us to “commit sociology.” We argue critical thinking is the foundation of a liberal arts education, and its purpose is to have students recognize that the social world is constantly being constructed and reconstructed—how exactly depends upon the power dynamics embedded in the social, economic, and political institutions of any given time and place. Yet it is very cha…
Things Was Different in the South”
Public Policy and the Success and Failure of New Technology
CONSTITUTING A GENUINE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION in the woods, the technologies and work processes of woods work in Eastern North America underwent a dramatic (and largely unstudied) transformation in the period between 1960 and the late 1980s. Motivating that development was the effort of the owners and managers of mills and their contractors to increase wood production, to decrease the costs, and to do both with fewer and fewer workers (MacDonald a…
What a difference a skidder makes
We examine in this paper the concurrent appearance of the first two woods machines--the skidder and forwarder. By replacing the horse they initiated the industrial revolution in tree harvesting. We describe their invention and technological development. We then assess their diffusion in the woods, revealing the greater success of the skidder. We demonstrate that this cannot be accounted for solely in terms of their respective technologies. Instea…
If you go down to the woods today
Just one damn machine after another?” Technological innovation and the industrialization of tree harvesting systems
The natural limits of technological innovation
Solar Energy is no Panacea for Ecological Limits on Economic Activity
Stifling Debate
Politics and Uneven Capitalist Development The Maritime Challenge to the Study of Canadian Political Economy
Students of Canadian political economy have tended largely to overlook the Maritimes in their accounts of economic and political development. It seems fair to say that the story of the region's rise and decline has been assumed to be of even less theoretical significance in the understanding of Canadian development than the region's plight is felt to be of national concern or importance. Thus it was probably with some surprise that most scholars …
Politics and Uneven Capitalist Development The Maritime Challenge to the Study of Canadian Political Economy
Students of Canadian political economy have tended largely to overlook the Maritimes in their accounts of economic and political development. It seems fair to say that the story of the region's rise and decline has been assumed to be of even less theoretical significance in the understanding of Canadian development than the region's plight is felt to be of national concern or importance. Thus it was probably with some surprise that most scholars …
Just one damn machine after another?” Technological innovation and the industrialization of tree harvesting systems
Things Was Different in the South”
The natural limits of technological innovation
Politics and Uneven Capitalist Development The Maritime Challenge to the Study of Canadian Political Economy
Students of Canadian political economy have tended largely to overlook the Maritimes in their accounts of economic and political development. It seems fair to say that the story of the region's rise and decline has been assumed to be of even less theoretical significance in the understanding of Canadian development than the region's plight is felt to be of national concern or importance. Thus it was probably with some surprise that most scholars …
Stifling Debate
The natural limits of technological innovation
Solar Energy is no Panacea for Ecological Limits on Economic Activity
Just one damn machine after another?” Technological innovation and the industrialization of tree harvesting systems
If you go down to the woods today
What a difference a skidder makes
We examine in this paper the concurrent appearance of the first two woods machines--the skidder and forwarder. By replacing the horse they initiated the industrial revolution in tree harvesting. We describe their invention and technological development. We then assess their diffusion in the woods, revealing the greater success of the skidder. We demonstrate that this cannot be accounted for solely in terms of their respective technologies. Instea…
Public Policy and the Success and Failure of New Technology
CONSTITUTING A GENUINE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION in the woods, the technologies and work processes of woods work in Eastern North America underwent a dramatic (and largely unstudied) transformation in the period between 1960 and the late 1980s. Motivating that development was the effort of the owners and managers of mills and their contractors to increase wood production, to decrease the costs, and to do both with fewer and fewer workers (MacDonald a…
Things Was Different in the South”
Commit Sociology
This article elaborates how C. Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination” invites us to “commit sociology.” We argue critical thinking is the foundation of a liberal arts education, and its purpose is to have students recognize that the social world is constantly being constructed and reconstructed—how exactly depends upon the power dynamics embedded in the social, economic, and political institutions of any given time and place. Yet it is very cha…
Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Forest Biomass Utilization and Management (4 works) · Forest Management and Policy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Engineering (3 works)