Lancashire Cotton Operatives and Work, 1900-1950 (Modern Economic and Social History)
by Alan Fowler
This title was first published in 2003. The cotton industry was one of the major motors that powered Britain's industrial development from the mid-eighteenth century, contributing in no small way to the revolution that was to transform Europe over the next hundred years. The combination of technological developments, colonial exploits and social transformation that all came together in the Lancashire cotton industry provided a perfect example of how the new world would function, its priorities a...
Zahlreiche Okonomen vertreten die Ansicht, dass eine flexible regionale Lohnpolitik die richtige wirtschaftspolitische Antwort auf regionale Arbeitsmarktprobleme darstellt. In Deutschland weist die regionale Lohnstruktur jedoch seit langem wenig Flexibilitat auf. In der Arbeit wird gezeigt, dass sich dies nicht aus dem wettbewerblichen Marktgeschehen heraus erklaren lasst. Es sind vielmehr die beiden Tarifparteien, Arbeitgeberverbande und Gewerkschaften, die eine flexible Reaktion der regionalen...
Value Management in Design and Construction
by Fellow John Kelly and Steven Male
Lesson Planner for Teachers 2019-2020 Weekly and Monthly
by Jk Roberts
Learning from World Class Manufacturers
by Marek Szwejczewski and Professor Malcolm Jones
"Kirk Zylstra's focus on the customer is a fresh approach to lean. Companies that can bear the burden of variability will develop a strategic advantage in today's volatile market." - Travis Jarrell Institute of Industrial Engineers Program Committee Chair. ""Lean Distribution" is a comprehensive yet concise work with clear leanings. Kirk's experience across a range of industries brings a unique understanding of common opportunities and solutions available to optimize distribution processes. Lean...
Issues such as the patentability of scientific ideas, the market for organs and open source software are hotly debated and yet poorly understood. In particular, there is a great need for sound economic theorizing on such issues. There is also a need for a clear and concise exposition of the state-of-the-art of the economics of property rights. This book fulfils these various needs.
Complex Adaptive Leadership argues leadership should not be something only exercised by nominated leaders. It is a complex dynamic process involving all those engaged in a particular enterprise. The theoretical background to this lies in complexity science and chaos theory - spoken and written about in the context of leadership for the last 20 years, but still little understood. We all seem intuitively to know leadership 'isn't what it used to be' but we still cling to old assumptions which look...
Funktion, Qualität und Kosten sind die drei Kernelemente eines Produkts. Vor allem in der Zukunft, unter dem allgemeinen Trend der Digitalisierung und AI, ist es für produzierende Unternehmen ein Muss, ein vollständiges Cost-Engineering-System zu etablieren. Basierend auf 25 Jahren praktischer Erfahrung und Methodenforschung in deutschen und chinesischen Automobilunternehmen stellt der Autor in diesem Buch zum ersten Mal Cost- Engineering-System, Cost-Engineering-Methoden und deren praktische...
The Evolution of the Us Airline Industry (Studies in Industrial Organization, #25)
by Johnson A. Edosomwan and Eldad Ben-Yosef
For over three decades the airline industry has continued to maintain a high profile in the public mind and in public policy interest. This high profile is probably not surprising. There does seem to be something inherently newsworthy about airplanes and the people and companies that fly them. The industry was one of the first major industries in the United States to undergo deregulation, in 1978. It thereby transitioned from a closely regulated sector (the former Civil Aeronautics Board tightly...
Techniques for Adaptive Control compiles chapters from a team of expert contributors that allow readers to gain a perspective into a number of different approaches to adaptive control. In order to do this, each contributor provides an overview of a particular product, how it works, and reasons why a user would want it as well as an in depth explanation of their particular method. This is one of the latest technologies to emerge in the instrumentation and control field. These latest control met...
This book analyzes the dynamics and impacts of software development and discusses new institutional and economic changes in the context of digital market economies. Regulatory approaches in OECD countries are compared and country studies evaluated with respect to innovation and welfare aspects. The book furthermore examines telecommunications regulation of fixed line networks, cable TV and mobile communications. Also discusses the role of EU framework regulation and issues of market power.
Asset-intensive companies need a more sophisticated approach to releasing the value locked away in their physical asset base, an approach that combines both the effectiveness of reliability and risk management, along with the efficiency of tight scheduling and resource management. "Asset Resource Planning" will give you the tools needed to make improvements in today's difficult climate! Written by an international professional and leading figure in the international asset maintenance discipline,...
An aid for plant engineers in organizing their maintenance function while minimizing maintenance and costs. The volume provides a framework of options allowing maintenance decision makers to select the most effective means of management. No bibliography or references. Annotation copyright Book News
This book is based on the authors' 100-plus years of experience as engineers and provides students with practical knowledge of what to expect as they enter the engineering field with a career in mind. Besides students, it will also serve as a practical guide for guidance counselors and recent engineering graduates, and contains topics infrequently found in other introductory engineering texts such as mentoring, interviewing, intellectual property, and how to navigate the variety of career choice...