Tuesday, July 7, 2015

A new project
Commercial life, a book of readings
I am collecting extracts from books on different aspects of commercial life.
Four major areas have been identified thus:
Occupations and activities
Organizations
Types of business and
Social change (initiated by commercial change)
I have located some 30 extracts so far spanning a period of nearly two centuries from 1833 to 2014. My work consists of identifying extracts, preparing them, writing introductory, explanatory notes for each and prepare section-wise introduction
I hope to capture a lot of variety of commercial life and its evolution in this anthology. Hopefully, the anthology will prove to be useful and interesting to students as well as lay readers.
Extracts collected so far relate to:
Occupations and activities: factory workers, menial occupations, financiers and brokers, advertising, board meetings
Organizations: turnaround of State Bank of India, setting up Amazon.com
Types of business: departmental store, realty business
Social change: reflection of office work and women's contribution to it in literature and films, conditions of working class, entrepreneurs versus organization/ company men
I am enjoying myself in this work.
You are welcome to make comments and add your ideas.

No comments:

Sthal, a Marathi movie

  I saw this movie yesterday by actually going to a movie theatre. It is located in a big mall and the entire ambience of the place makes yo...