Physiology aside, [Joanne Chen]'s research takes her inside labs where the chemistry behind sweets is dissected in a most unappetizing, and at times uninteresting, way. Her book makes a useful companion to Sugar, Canadian author Elizabeth Abbott's new history of the worldwide sugar industry. The current taste for sweet is two-fold, says Chen, both on the tastebuds and what's in vogue. Add to that the emotions around dessert, the shared rituals of a enjoying birthday cake with friends and family or the guilty indulgences of a gooey chocolate cake after a hard day, and the feelings around sweet treats are as multi-layered as a honey-drenched baklava. Chen presents studies about the dangers of these fake sugars, then adds a dash of her own experience: After years of using packaged sweetene...
From Christopher Columbus taking sugar from the Canary Islands back to Europe -- setting in motion the slave trade in sugar workers and sparking wars -- to its use in the processed and fast-food industry whose calories feed health concerns such as type 2 diabetes, sugar's history has a bitter taste for [Elizabeth Abbott], the author of A History of Celibacy. The slave trade abolitionists, as an aside, included many of England's chocolate manufacturing families whose economic success rested in part on sugar availability and on cocoa, which itself was harvested in less than desirable working conditions, as Toronto journalist Carol Off detailed so well in her 2007 book, Bitter Chocolate: Investigating the Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet. All is not bitter in the world of suga...
Understanding of international competitiveness has primarily been pursued in terms of economic variables and market conditions. The roles of the government, the socio-cultural-political context in international business, and their effects on competitiveness have largely been ignored. This study involves an investigation into the circumstances of international competitiveness and how it is pursued by firms from different sugar producing and marketing nations. It employs a qualitative method of comparative analysis between Australia, Brazil, and the European Union. This paper highlights the variations of the theme of international competitiveness reflected through different strategies chosen by the three dominant sugar economies
... unit variously being the country, the industry and the firm. The micro-economic application of th...Brazil's history has been that of an agro-exporting nation. For Bra...
... show, flea market, fair, farmers' market or sugar bush by the individual who prepared and processed ...For the remainder of the food industry, the transitional period has been increased from t...The claim "sugar-free" has a long history of use in Canada. It was intended to provide an ea...
A study examines accounting in a sugar refinery from 1900 to 1920 in two arenas of operation. The geography of accounting enabled the workers at Chelsea to have their working experience sequestered by the company. Accounting routinized their work at the refinery, enabling their labor to become monitored, empty of meaning, and, at times, overwhelming. The ideology of accounting provided the company with an instrument of evasion to silence the voice of labor and an instrument of self-deception designed to justify and insulate the authoritarian hierarchy of the company and the power of its Australian general manager, Edward Knox. Accounting became an ideology that sought to legitimate the exploitation of the workforce and the generous return to shareholders.
...Accounting research on the sugar industry has concentrated on the labor processes and relati... suspicion was not surprising given the history of acrimony with management. The company was able ...
...[30] Hypoglycemia (or low blood sugar) is another problem that can arise with SFU treatm... consultant to the pharmaceutical industry, after a 27-year career in the field. [79] Dr. Jam...[303] In other words, the actual history of the separation of the enantiomers of the 388 co...
A good starting point is the Musee du Rhum at the Saint James Distillery (596-69-30-02) in Ste. Marie on the wilder east coast. The museum explores rum's history using everything from an ancient sugar cane press to 1920s advertising posters. The rum industry grew out of the lucrative sugar cane plantations begun by French colonists in the 17th century and grew profitable on the backs of slaves. From this emerged the island's Creole culture and a reputation of quality rum that is now the pride of the island. The Route du Rhum also leads visitors to scenic corners and interesting sites. Just to the north of Ste. Marie is the Musee du Pere Labat, a restored sugar plantation where inventor and Dominican monk Pere Labat modernized distilling between 1693 and 1705. Farther north, near the Poi...
... sovereignty, Jim Handy, a professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan, summarized the ..., pulpwood plantations, export crops such as sugar cane, or left idle. Most food was imported. The go... people in the country, despite the industry's profitability. International corporations like N...
The paper outlines developments in the accounting history literature during the 1990s. The introduction chronicles the immense broadening of publication opportunities in accounting history that characterized the decade. To a certain extent, this enhancement of outlets resulted from a richer dialogue among accounting historians who became increasingly willing to debate paradigmatic and methodological issues. In this context, the paper identifies and discusses traditional and critical forms of accounting history and reviews work within the paradigms of economic-rationalist, Foucauldian, and Marxist/labor-process studies. The major elements of debate between old and new perspectives on accounting history are discussed and linked to later collaborative efforts and refinements in the work of...
..., 1998a] and racial control on Hawaiian sugar plantations [Fleischman and Tyson, 2000b]. Subsequ... betterment of a business entity, an industry, a country, or an historical epoch. Investigations...
... the growth of Yukon's agricultural industry. . Introduction . The Yukon's Subarctic environmen...The history of Yukon agriculture shows that small farms and ga... Company between 1880 and 1890 were flour, sugar, butter, coffee, tea, potatoes, onions, fruits, po...
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