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Braun, Willi; McCutcheon, Russell T.; Elliott, Scott S.

doi:10.1163/157006800x00346

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“…While there have been some recent questions about the effect of ingested nickel on health, this is not a problem with stainless steel which accounts for about two thirds of nickel use. 10 Finally, government policy has often significantly influenced nickel consumption. Because of its use in weaponry, demand has been high in war time and other periods of high defence spending.…”

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The coming nickel shakeout

Maxwell¹

1999

Minerals & Energy - Raw Materials Report

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Consistent growth in demand for nickel since 1950 has been more than matched by supply increments. As with several other major metals this has resulted in falling real prices. Recent decisions by new and established producers either to bring new mines on stream, or to expand production, or both, is challenging the long-term oligopolistic nature of nickel production. Many established mines will close earlier than planned as new lowcost production comes on stream. This study reviews major developments, reflecting on their implications for regional economic development in major producing countries such as Canada and Australia.

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Section: Demand Side Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The coming nickel shakeout

Maxwell¹

1999

Minerals & Energy - Raw Materials Report

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“…As Pudsey wrote in his commonplace book near 1600, "Bondemen are appointed butchers & not free citizens, lest thorough the vse there of, clemency shold by little & little perish." 136 But what about the opposing effect? Given that Utopian society believes these tasks will degrade rather than improve an offender's character, correction seems unlikely.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…they leave to their bondmen." 138 The marginal index marks this poignant inverse to the humanist belief in the improvability of individual behavior: "Of the slaughter of beastes we have learned manslaughter." 139 Violence can be acquired.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The irony was noted by Pudsey: "Ynfamous persons & bondmen wear in their ears & on their fingers rings of gold about their necks chaines & on their legs gyves." 142 Stephen Greenblatt agreed that slavery in Utopia "functions not only as a penal and economic institution but as an extreme form of shaming," and noted the degrading and self-perpetuating aspects of Utopian slavery as a "chilling" feature of More's fiction. 143 Neither did the text's distinction between noncitizen "drudges" and citizen penal drudges appear relevant in 1605 to a reader in Princeton's 1556 copy, who noted that "ther owne they punish" even more "sevearly" than they do their foreign slaves-implying that bondage of either sort was punishing.…”

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ReadingUtopiain the Reformation of Punishment

Ritger

2019

Renaiss. Q.

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Recent scholarship on the first English translation of Thomas More's “Utopia” has asked how its publication in the 1550s fits with the larger agenda of Protestant Reformers who promoted the book alongside their other civic projects. This article argues that the initiatives of greatest relevance were the new house of correction at Bridewell (est. 1553–57) and the infamous Vagrancy Act of 1547–49, which failed to introduce slavery as a punishment in English law. Evidence of user interactions with the 1550s editions, including indexing, annotation, commonplacing, and quotation, helps to analyze how the text's complicated ideas about penal labor were received and reemphasized by early English readers.

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“…The quantity of ink this text has generated suggests that, like a Rorschach blot, it enables us to project outwards our obsessions, our fantasies, our day-dreams, our hopes of a return to an irretrievable past golden age or our yearning for an unrealizable future paradise. 2 Adding to this flood of learned essays is inevitably presumptuous. To furthermore suggest that previous commentators have failed to read attentively might be taken as arrogant provocation.…”

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Utopia 9/11: A Plea for a New World

Schwartz-Morgan

2006

Diogenes (Engl. ed.)

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Thomas More’s Utopia is made up of two books. Book One, quickly skimmed over by those who dream of the future and are bored by history, tells us about Europe in 1515 at the dawn of a revolution in every field of knowledge dominated by a political power that uses religion, fear and ignorance to satisfy an insatiable appetite for hegemony, infinitely corrupt but in public promoting moral, family values. Book Two gives us a glimpse of a future on a human scale using new techniques, reason and good management of its resources to reconcile the common good with the pleasure of the individual. That book is the founding text for our modernity. It is the pagan bible adopted by the Enlightenment, which we have inscribed in the charter of our epoch’s institutions. Five hundred years later the books are being rewritten in reverse: the great human dream set in train by Book Two in 1516 is bogged down in the reality of 2005. The new promises of free-choice economism in 2005 are just a nightmare journey back in time to the postulates of Book One.

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