What The United States Can Learn From Japan
.... During the Meiji period Japan focused it's attention
on emulating western technology such as trains, steel production, and textiles.
The Meiji leaders took taxes levied on agriculture to fund the development of
these new industries. Following World War II Japanese industries used this same
strategic industrial policy to develop the high-tech, steel, and car industries
that Japan is known for today. Some American industries are currently heavily
supported by the government through subsidies and tax breaks .....
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The Economic Underpinnings Of The First Industrial Revolution In England
.... military manufacturing
then spilled over into the civilian sector of the economy. And because it was
now a tested technology investors who were normally cautious were willing to put
their capital into these ventures which instead of pouring iron to make guns now
made iron ore into stoves and pots.
The second critical underpinning of the first industrial revolution was
the development of a home market in Britain. The first British industrialists
manufactured textiles; specifically cotton for the h .....
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The Particular Features Of The Employment System In Japan
.... workers at the
company. Many of these workers forced into early retirement then take up farming
as is the custom in Japan for retires. Getting rid of senior workers is one the
most effective tools companies have of reducing costs because these workers have
more seniority and thus make more money then the average worker. Japanese
companies also are able to cut costs during recessions by reducing or
eliminating bonuses paid to workers, cutting down on hiring of new workers,
eliminating the farming out of w .....
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Deficit Spending
.... In the 1980s they soared to record levels. The
Government cut income tax rates, greatly increased defense spending, and didn't
cut domestic spending enough to make up the difference. Also, the deep recession
of the early 1980s reduced revenues, raising the deficit and forcing the
Government to spend much more on paying interest for the national debt at a time
when interest rates were high. As a result, the national debt grew in size after
1980. It grew from $709 billion to $3.6 trillion in 1990, only on .....
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Harley - Davidson Inc. Motorcycle Industry
.... Sales of accessories and parts make up 36% of total retail sales and is a
viable area for producers to explore because people want something to
differentiate their bikes. Previously, motorcycles were viewed as a cheap means
of transportation. By 1992, they came to be viewed as a recreational, or a
luxury item. This new perception of motorcycles led to the introduction of more
expensive models with higher prices. This led to the introduction of consumer
financing, one of the fastest growing servi .....
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Business And Ethics
.... information of both the employees and their
superiors along with the role of others in the situation. Next you would have
to analyze the final outcome from a corporate perspective and then examine the
corporate responsibility as a whole in order to find a resolution for cases such
as this.
The first mitigating factor involved in the Company X case is the
uncertainty, on the part of the employees, on their duties that they were
assigned. It is possible that during the testing procedure, an employee
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Investing In The Future
.... and socially impaired children
grow up to be intellectually and socially impaired adults"(Collins 59).
The need for some sort of assistance for many children became obvious to
me on a volunteer project I did in high school. The summer after my junior year
I took a trip to San Antonio with about twenty other students. We were divided
between two different projects, and I went to work in a summer day-care program
in an underprivileged area. The day-care was for children aged infant to
eighteen, and o .....
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Technology Jobs
.... clear evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories
already exceeds the demand for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research
Director of Welfare Reform Network. In view of these facts, I wonder if these
trends are good or bad for society. “The danger of the information age is that
while in the short run it may be cheaper to replace workers with technology, in
the long run it is potentially self-destructive because there will not be
enough purchasing power to grow the economy, .....
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The Relationships Between Quaker, The Company, And Semiotics
.... has many meanings,
which are of course subconsciously.
The Quaker building has many meanings and therefore the signified list is very
long, but first we will look at the signifier. The sign is the word Quaker,
plain and simple, and the signifier is Q-u-a-k-e-r. However the word Quaker is
not just a word, it means many, many things, which is where the signified comes
in. The actual building is huge, which gave me the feeling that they are a
successful company and that their product must be all over .....
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A Study Of The Market Reforms In Post-Communist Eastern Europe With A Specific Case Study Of Poland
.... of the USSR.
Resource saving miniaturization requiring high technology and skill were
demanded (command economies have neither), Flexible production to meet a variety
of needs (command economies have large factories to keep production high - they,
thus, did not have the funds or ability to affect the necessary changes to their
means of production), the "information age" meant that the communist bloc had to
deny the new prevalent types of technology, which would spread Western ideas,
and thus they fell b .....
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Economic Espionage
.... Armed forces. The above are
all true examples of the modern threat facing international business today
known as industrial or economic espionage. The end of the cold and economic
pressures have increased the risk of economic espionage. The collapse of the
Soviet Union has left unemployed KGB and other former communist bloc
intelligence agents selling everything from Russian night vision devices to
completely assembled and functional bugging devices. Even friendly western
European governments have .....
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Heavy Weather At American Airlines
.... for higher
pay also, but undeniably American is in the worst position right now.
It looks to me like the pilots were not very happy with the decision to
purchase new aircraft from Boeing back in November when it was first voted on.
It seems as though instead of purchasing new aircraft the pilots wanted a pay
increase. What the pilots want is a pay increase of 11% over the next four
years. What the have been offered is a 5% increase. The argument that the
pilots have put forward is the fact that t .....
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Oil In America
.... in the oil field industry dating
back to January 28 1969, in Santa Barbara. This may have been a long time ago
but this was a disaster this country has never seen. On the 28 a well burst on
the Santa Barbara Channel. It "raged for ten days and killed 3
crewmen".(Easton,10) There were major problems stopping this rig and no matter
what happened there was already enough damage done. On February 23, the well
erupted again. The environmental consequences were evident. As the oil spilled
down towards .....
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Privateers
.... been won without their
involvement. Many scholars agree that all war begins for economic reasons, and
the privateers of the war for independence contributed by attacking the
commercial livelihood of Great Britain's merchants.
It is ironic that the entire notion of privateering began in Great Britain.
In 1649 a frigate named Constant-Warwick was constructed in England for a
privateer in the employ of the Earl of Warwick. Seeing how profitable this
investment was, a great many of the English peer .....
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The Effects Of Post-industrialism On The Political Economy Of Western Europe
.... companies
able to shift production quickly to capitalize on movements in world demand.
The net result of these changes has been a transition to a post-industrial
society, where the stable economic order of mass employment in large-scale
industry has given way to mass unemployment and a breakdown of the political and
social consensus that held sway throughout the post-war period. These changes
have fundamentally altered the Western European labor market. This paper will
show how post-industrialism .....
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