In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every California city and county. Eleven years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every California city and county. Eleven years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every California city and county. Eleven years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every California city and county. Eleven years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every Texas county and 300 Texas cities. Ten years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every California city and county. Eleven years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
In-depth analysis of retail market trends in every city and county in Washington State. Eleven years of retail sales and outlet data for every local market. Publication includes over 800 charts and analytical rankings and indices for each market area.
Walking around the commercial streets of New York, San Francisco, Milan, London, or Paris and looking at the succession of multinational chain stores’ windows, you can easily forget what country you are in. However, if you hear the small talk among the employees, you hear very different stories. In New York, a 30-year-old woman is worried because she does not know if she will work enough hours to make a living the following week—whereas, in Milan, a mother of the same age knows she will work 20 hours a week but is concerned about whether her contract will be renewed at the end of the following month. Following three years of fieldwork, which included 100 in-depth interviews with front-line retail workers and unionists in New York City and Milan, Front-Line Workers in the Global Service Economy investigates both the lived experiences of salespersons in the "fast fashion" industry—a retail sector made of large chains of stores selling fashion garments at low prices—and the possibilities of collective action and structured forms of resistance to these global trends. In the face of economic globalization and vigorous managerial efforts to minimize labor costs and to standardize the retail experience, mass fashion workers’ stories tell us how strong the pressure toward work devaluation in low-skilled service sectors can be, and how devastating its effects are on the workers themselves.
The Leadership Capital Index develops a conceptual framework of leadership capital and a diagnostic tool - the Leadership Capital Index (LCI) - to measure and evaluate the fluctuating nature of the leadership capital of leaders. Differing amounts of leadership capital, a combination of skills, relations and reputation, allow leaders to succeed or bring about their failure. This book brings together leading international scholars in the field to engage with the concept of 'leadership capital' and use and apply the LCI to a variety of comparative case studies. The book provides an important, timely, and innovative contribution to the now flourishing academic discipline of political leadership studies. The LCI offers a comprehensive yet parsimonious and easily applicable 10 point matrix to examine leadership authority over time and in different political contexts. In each case, leaders 'spend' and put their 'stock' of authority and support at risk. United States president Lyndon Johnson arm-twisting Congress to put into effect civil rights legislation; Tony Blair taking the United Kingdom into the invasion of Iraq; Angela Merkel committing Germany to a generous reception of refugees: all 'spent capital' to forge public policy they believed in. The volume examines how office-holders acquire, consolidate, risk, and lose such capital, and concentrates predominantly on elected 'chief executives' at the national level, including majoritarian and consensus systems, multiple and singular cases, and also examines some presidential and sub-national cases. The Leadership Capital Index is an exploratory volume, with chapters providing a series of plausibility probes to see how the LCI framework 'performs' as a descriptive and analytical tool.