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- 971: Out Of This Furnace
- ... most monotony of whistles calling them to work, workers always would constantly hope that someday they could escape. For Kracha knows that to escape and to obtain freedom to run one's own farm or business requires money or capital. Finding jobs at the steel and iron furnaces, Kracha and his generation of Slovaks are only concerned with surviving and saving enough to go back home rich. Immigrants would work long ... breaks free from this mold. Aspiring not to waste his entire life in the steel mills, Kracha becomes the butcher of his shop. Where there seemed be little hope for immigrants to have their own business, Kracha succeeds in his attempts to be independent. He enjoys the freedom from the whistles that signaled the workers, but he is at the same time burdened with the demands of his customers, employees, and ... Labor (Lecture, 10/6/99) never enter their minds. Being a businessman, Kracha is respected by his customers and peers for rising above the mill workers. However, his affair with Zuska brings Kracha and his business down. For a while, Kracha is able to experience independence, being off on his own. That financial freedom is short lived and Kracha soon becomes like the other workers, dreaming of having something of ...
- 972: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... reduction in operating costs. Then the Model T automobile was introduced in 1908. With the help of this model, Ford became America’s largest automobile producer and vendor. Nevertheless throughout the 1930s Ford began losing business to his competitors, mainly because they were slow introducing new models of automobiles every year. (Encarta, 1998) Scientific Management and Fordism created a new type of ‘revolution’. The promise of massive increases in productivity led ... Rupert, M (1995) Producing Hegemony: The Politics of Mass Production and American Global Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (p.11) Shearer, R (1997). The Reichskuratorium fur Wirtschaftlichkeit: Fordism and organized capitalism in Germany, 1918-1945. Business History Review. 71, 569-602. Shingo, S. The Toyota production system. Tokyo: Japan Management Association, 1981. P.52 Streeck, W. (1987). The uncertainties of management in the management of uncertainty: Employers, labor relations and industrial ... Work & Occupations. 22, 412-438. Taylor, F. (1915). The Principles of Scientific Management. New York: Harper, (Copyright M E Sharpe Inc 1997) Whitston, K. (1997) The reception of scientific management by British engineers, 1890-1914. Business History Review. 71, 207-229 Wood, S. (1993) The Japanization of Fordism. Economic & Industrial Democracy. 14, 535-555
- 973: Hero As Schinder
- ... Elfriede who was seven years younger then him. The Schindler family was one of the richest and most prominent families in Zwitlau and elsewhere. This was due to the success of their family owned machinery business. Schindler himself was a very tall and handsome man. Needless to say, all the young women adored him. He married Emilie Schindler at nineteen, but was never without a mistress or two. Hard drinking and feckless, he had the soul of a gambler, winning big and losing bigger. In 1929, during the Great Depression, the Schindler family business went bankrupt. At this time, Schindler's father left his mother, and she died soon after. He became a machinery salesman when opportunity came knocking in the guise of the war. According to his situation ... weakened. As the Russian approached, the Nazi's tried desperately to complete their program of liquidation and send all remaining Jews to die. Schindler used his connections to receive permission to reestablish his once defunct business as an armament production company in Bruunlitz. After some negotiation with officials, he was allowed to take with him some Jewish worker from these camps. Schindler succeeded in saving more then 1,000 Jews ...
- 974: Henry Ford
- ... then received a apprenticing job at Dry Dock Engine Company where he was a natural at designing engines and repairing them. After mastering the machinists trade he went back home to go to a small business college for three months. At home he met and courted Clara Bryant a daughter of a neighboring farmer. They were wed on April 11, 1888. Their home was on a 40 acre farm his father ... that he had built a car. Soon after he was working as chief engineer at Detroit Edison Co. making $1,800 a year; an extremely high salary for the '90's. At the same time business man after business man approached Henry offering him great sums of money to build their cars in his spare time. In 1901 Henry and many investors started the Henry Ford Company with $60,000. This project was ...
- 975: Importance of Electronics
- ... dependent on the usage of many electronics in their lives such as the television, audio receivers, and amplifiers to stay updated on world-wide issues. Electronics also provide a superior tool for progression in the business world today. Business people rely on electronics to communicate with each other faster and to store and quickly organize vast amounts of essential data. Electronics are improving at a blindingly fast rate. The newest technology from five years ... the world no matter where they go. For the next generation, electronics will certainly offer new yet simpler technology available to the general public. Home addresses and phone numbers will be replaced with Internet addresses. Business people will be able to have access to tools such as video conferencing and such in their homes. The workplace will ultimately become obsolete. Transportation vehicles will be dominated by electric cars as natural ...
- 976: Publishers Clearing House Swee
- ... pushes on consumers is detrimental to consumers. From my understanding of the FTC's definition of deceptive ads, and the advertisements used by Publishers Clearing House, I believe that deceptiveness is the key to their business. Also, I agree with Attorney General James Doyle in that the company should be forced to change the way that they do business. In my opinion, Publishers Clearing House is stealing hard earned money from people by falsely making them believe that they are soon to be millionaires. The function of free expression that pertains to the advertisements ... February 22, 1999. Address: www.mediacentral.com/channels/marketing/919707260-347.html World Wide Web page: Theimer, Sharon. "Wisconsin sues Publishers Clearing House." ABC news online, January 29, 1999. Address: www.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/wisconsin990129.html Scholarly articles: Emerson Thomas. "The Function of Freedom of Expression in Democratic Society." Class handout.
- 977: Situation Analysis: Ford Mustang
- ... During the early years, every car was built entirely by hand. This process was not only very slow, but it was very expensive. This is the primary reason so many early innovators went out of business and the other ones were not profitable enough to expand their business. Henry Ford changed that when he introduced the assembly line. This both increased production speed and decreased cost. This idea of mass production revolutionized the automobile industry. Soon all of the top auto producers would ... almost stopped. This huge decrease in demand forced major cutbacks in spending, factories were closed, employees were laid off, and production was almost halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business. The United States time of prosperity had ended. WWII During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When ...
- 978: Computer Generated Evidence In Court
- Computer Generated Evidence In Court Introduction We are living in what is usually described as an 'information society' and as the business community makes ever greater use of computers the courts are going to find that increasingly the disputes before them turn on evidence which has at some stage passed through or been processed by a computer ... practice it is vital that the courts are able to take account of such evidence. As the Criminal Law Revision Committee recognised, 'the increasing use of computers by the Post Office, local authorities, banks and business firms to store information will make it more difficult to prove certain matters such as cheque card frauds, unless it is possible for this to be done from computers' (CLRC 1972, para 259). Admissibility The ... or may reasonably be supposed to have had) personal knowledge of the matters dealt with. Furthermore, under section 24 the 'creator' of the document must have been acting in the course of a trade or business etc. A statement in a computer printout which has satisfied the foundation requirements of sections 23 or 24 can only be admitted on satisfaction of the additional requirements contained in section 69. (5) Section ...
- 979: Computer Crimes
- ... by means of the fraudulent use of the transfer system. (Source: Text book) The next two examples involve software piracy, or unauthorized use, copying or sale of computer programs. John Wolfe, an investigator for the Business Software Alliance last June recently uncovered a small business engaged in the unlawful installation of computer programs onto personal computers, and the sale of those computers. TES Computer, of Fairfax VA. was reported to the BSA by several consumers complaining about problems with preinstalled ... 95. The long awaited program hit stores on Aug. 24 but it has been selling in street markets and shops in Europe and Asia for months. Robin Burton, European spokesman for the anti-piracy group Business Software Alliance said, ²We found thousands of copies of pre-release versions around². Burton added that Windows 95 ³was on almost every CD-ROM we saw in Europe and the Far East.² Christine Santucci, ...
- 980: Contracts
- Contracts A contract is an agreement that is enforceable by law. Modern business could not exist without such contracts. Most business transactions involve commitments to furnish goods, services, or real property; these commitments are usually in the form of contracts. Use of the contract in business affairs ensures, to some extent, the performance of an agreement, for a party that breaks a contract may be sued in court for the damages caused by the breach. Sometimes, however, a party that ...
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