1 Alexander Tsigkas The factory in the post-industrial era Variety instead of Flexibility Mass Customisation: the production system of the future Alexander Tsigkas Democritean University of Thrace Department of Production Engineering and Management Vas. Sofias 12‚ 67 100 Xanthi‚ Greece tsigas@vivodinet.gr‚ WWW home page: http://www.duth.gr Abstract. The world has become and it continues to become more complex as we move well into the 21th century. In this paper sociological-historical
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1. INTRODUCTION 2. WHAT IS GENDER Many times when people talk of gender‚ they are always referring to women. It is rare for people to talk of gender when there are only men without a lady or when there are only women without a man. However the actual meaning of gender is the social attributes and the opportunities associated with being male and female and also the relationships between women and men and the relationship that exist between girls and boys‚ as well as the relations between women
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Railroad tracks promoted industrialization greatly because with the railroad tracks‚ equipment were able to be transported through the country fast and efficiently. Document 3 ~How did these planks of the republican platform promote the industrial and commercial growth of the country? It promoted the commercial growth of the country because the republicans were for the building of the railroads‚ wanted improvement in the rivers and the harbor and also wanted to protect immigrants.
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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES Industrial Relations Introduction • relations which are the outcome of the employment relationship in an industrial enterprise • every industrial relations system creates a complex of rules and regulations to govern the work place and work community • main purpose: to maintain harmonious relations between labour and management by solving their problems through collective bargaining • the government/state shapes industrial relations with the help of
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chain of events that occurred from 1814-1914. Western Europe went through the “Industrial Revolution”‚ where people moved from fields into factories for work. The Industrial Revolution was propelled by the Ism’s. Two of the most crucial Ism’s being Nationalism and Social Darwinism. Though they aren’t very similar‚ these two Ism’s played an essential role in the evolving culture in Western Europe throughout the “Industrial Revolution”. Nationalism is the strong belief that the interests of a particular
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Women in the Post Industrial Society In the 1940s “Anything You Can Do” was a song performed in the popular Broadway musical‚ Annie Get Your Gun. The man and woman‚ who sung the duet‚ try to outshine each other by proclaiming that one does better in each other’s responsibilities. With that being said‚ women were beginning to catch up and exceed their male counterparts in the post industrial society. They began taking opportunities to excel themselves in the workforce‚ education and in their own
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Human Settlement in the Twenty-first Century’‚ organized by the IUSSP Working Group on Urbanization and held at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center in Bellagio‚ Italy‚ 11-15 March 2002. Paper 14 THE NATURE OF RURALITY IN POST INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY By David L. Brown and John B. Cromartie∗ Draft 2/15/02 INTRODUCTION Urbanization is a dynamic social and economic process that transforms societies from primarily rural to primarily urban ways of life (Hauser‚ 1965). Few would dispute
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Ralph Manicad 3/26/14 GE 201-01 Post Industrial North American Influences North America has influence the world in many different ways. Many changes happened throughout the world after the world war ended. The United States of America had taken part by influencing other countries by expanding their economy‚ conducting in space exploration‚ and spreading their culture all over the world. The period from the end of World War II to the early 1970s was a golden era of American capitalism. $200
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There are four different types of industrial conflict. They are called Strike ‚ Work-to-rule‚ Absenteeism and Sabotage Strike A strike is the employees’ temporary withdrawal of services‚ contrary to an employment contract. It is a formal form of industrial conflict that is usually organized by a trade union. (Trade unions are representatives of employment that ensure that employee working conditions and earnings are managed according to rule.) During typical strikes‚ trade unions ensure that there
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The Political Economy of Industrial Policy in Pakistan 1947-1971 Mushtaq H. Khan‚ Department of Economics‚ SOAS‚ University of London. The period from 1947 when Pakistan was created to the watershed of 1971 when East Pakistan split off to become Bangladesh is an important one for studying the determinants of industrial performance in the Indian subcontinent. On the one hand‚ despite substantial differences in the industrial policies of Pakistan and India‚ their rates of industrial growth were remarkably
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