La spécialisation du travail artisanal dans la civilisation de l'Indus

La civilisation de l’Indus marque les esprits par une apparente uniformité de la culture matérielle sur la totalité de son territoire (environ 1 million de km carré) durant sa période d’apogée (2600-1900 av. J.-C.). Cette étude cherche à tester deux hypothèses qui pourraient expliquer cette homogénéité : 1) Un pouvoir centralisateur contrôlant la production artisanale; et 2) Un vaste réseau d’échanges et de distribution de la production. Dans ce but, la grande majorité des publications accessibles portant sur la production artisanale d’objets en céramique, en pierres semi-précieuses, en coquillage et en métal ont été inventoriées et analysées. Axée sur la spécialisation du travail artisanal, l’étude a identifié quelques objets dits de prestige (perles classiques harappéennes, bracelets en grès cérame) très probablement liés à une élite. La nature de cette élite est ensuite examinée et un nouveau modèle d’organisation sociopolitique de cette civilisation est proposé.

Wellbeing of Australians : work, wealth and happiness : part A

The Australian Unity Wellbeing Index monitors the subjective wellbeing of the Australian population. Our first survey was conducted in April 2001 and this report concerns the 17th survey, undertaken in April 2007. Our previous survey had been conducted six months earlier in October 2006. This intervening period was relatively uneventful in terms of events likely to change population wellbeing. A new leader of the opposition Labor Party was appointed (Kevin Rudd) who seemed more likely than
his predecessors to wrest power from long-serving Prime Minister John Howard (Liberal Party) in an election to be held around the end of 2007.
Each survey involves a telephone interview with a new sample of 2,000 Australians, selected to represent the national population geographic distribution. These surveys comprise the Personal Wellbeing Index, which measures people’s satisfaction with their own lives, and the National
Wellbeing Index, which measures how satisfied people are with life in Australia. Other items include a standard set of demographic questions and other survey-specific questions. The specific topics for Survey 17 are time at work, and anticipated happiness at doubling or halving household income.

National wealth and income.

Mode of access: Internet.

The philosophy of wealth /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fixed reproducible tangible wealth in the United States, 1925-94.

"August 1999."

Wealth and want; a study in living contrasts and social problems,

"The author is indebted to the British institute of social service ... for the entire preparation of the bibliographies in this book."

Protect labor : an address to the working men by the editor of "America" ; to which are appended statements showing the increase of manufacturing industry and wealth under a protective tariff, rates of wages in Europe as compared with the United States, etc. /

Mode of access: Internet.

States, contracts, and progress : dynamics of international wealth /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

America's wealth; the economic history of an open society.

Includes bibliography.

The Mississippi Valley : its physical geography, including sketches of the topography, botany, climate, geology, and mineral resources ; and of the progress of development in population and material wealth /

Includes index.

Virginia; its climate, soil, productions, manufacturing industries, and mineral wealth.

Reprint of p. 64-93 of the author's "New South".

History of the Mexican railway; wealth of Mexico, in the region extending from the Gulf to the capital of the republic, considered in its geological, agricultural, manufacturing and commercial aspect: with scientific, historical and statistical notes,

On cover: Scientific, historical and statistical notes on Mexico.

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations /

On spine: The wealth of nations.

Russkoe bogatstvo = Russian wealth.

Edited at various times by: N.N. Zlatovratskiĭ, N.K. Mikhaĭlovskĭ and V.G. Korolenko.

The distribution of wealth /

Includes bibliographies and index.