Hotel Renovation Planning and Design

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Title: Hotel Renovation Planning and Design. (book reviews)
Author: Richard H. Penner
Publication: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 1996
Publisher: Cornell University
Volume: v37 Issue: n4 Page: p9(1)

Article Type: Book Review

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Hotel Renovation: Planning & Design (Storefronts & Facades)

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The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention have combined to create one of the most successful cases of social and redistributive development in the Third World. In contrast to predictions that labor militancy in developing countries threatens to overload fledgling democratic institutions and derail economic growth, The Labor of Development shows that the political and economic inclusion of industrial and agricultural workers in Kerala set the stage for a democratically negotiated capitalist transformation.

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