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A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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Only a few years ago, in the midst of a national real estate boom, Paterson and myriad other American communities embraced shopping malls and spreads of new condominiums as portals to economic growth, hoping that construction jobs and retail could transcend the post-industrial urban decay that had gripped them for a half-century.
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It consists of a goodly proportion of those college educated people whose skills and vocations proliferate in a ‘post-industrial society’ … We are talking about scientists, teachers and educational administrators, journalists and others in the communication industries, psychologists, social workers, those lawyers and doctors who make their career in the expanding public sector, city planners and the staffs of the larger foundations and upper levels of the government bureaucracy, and so on ….
Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories 2009
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Some view these reversals as the harbinger of a new and bleak era in which the inevitable consequence of late capitalism – characterised by post-industrial economies, technological breakthroughs that generate fewer jobs and flexible labour markets spawning massive inequalities – is a plateau in the living standards of a large swath of workers.
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Hundreds of thousands of family firms, which played an invaluable role in the 'economic miracle' of the 1950s and 1960s, had become a dead weight, making it impossible for Italy to make the leap to a post-industrial, knowledge-based economy.
Debt crisis: Silvio Berlusconi unveils reforms to avert Italian crisis 2011
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A couple of weeks later, my students and I ventured into another corner of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this time to East Baltimore, one of the most beleaguered neighborhoods in that post-industrial city.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
trevorbutterworth commented on the word post-industrial
Try and think of a new way of saying post-industrial. It's a bit old fashioned for our *new* kind of postindustrialization
January 8, 2009