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Umformtechnik - Handbuch fur Industrie und Wissenschaft (German, Paperback, 2. Aufl. 1984. Nachdruck 2002): Kurt Lange Umformtechnik - Handbuch fur Industrie und Wissenschaft (German, Paperback, 2. Aufl. 1984. Nachdruck 2002)
Kurt Lange
R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die vorliegende Studienausgabe basiert auf der 2. Auflage des seit Jahren als Standardwerk anerkannten Handbuchs Umformtechnik. Sie fuhrt in grundlegende Verfahrensbegriffe sowie die Behandlung von Problemen der Umformtechnik und die metallkundlichen, plastizitatstheoretischen und tribologischen Grundlagen ein. Den Fliesskurven und ihrer Aufnahme ist ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet, vertieft durch einen Abschnitt uber Fliessortkurven. Weitere Kapitel behandeln die Ermittlung von Verfahrenswerten durch Messen, die Grundlagen der Werkzeugmaschinen zum Umformen sowie die Arbeitsgenauigkeit. Besonders hervorzuheben sind die leicht fassliche Einfuhrung zum Stoff einerseits und die ausreichende Informationen zur selbstandigen Losung nicht zu spezieller Probleme andererseits. Das umfassende Literaturverzeichnis am Schluss eines jeden Kapitels erleichtert die Einarbeitung in Spezialgebiete."

The Sources of Increased Efficiency - A Study of DuPont Rayon Plants (Paperback, New Ed): Samuel Hollander The Sources of Increased Efficiency - A Study of DuPont Rayon Plants (Paperback, New Ed)
Samuel Hollander
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

An extraordinary opportunity offered by the Du Pont Company gave Professor Hollander free access both to all detailed cost and much investment data related to rayon manufacture at a number of plants, covering a period of thirty years and to a wide range of informed personnel and officers. These data enabled Professor Hollander to make an unprecedented study of a large industrial firm for the purpose of measuring the contribution of various sources of improvement to increased efficiency. From the mass of information available, he has selected sound technical details and concepts, excluded all irrelevant material, and presented a carefully organized case study showing how technical change accounts for a very high proportion of the increases in productivity. Specifically, this information includes descriptions of the contributions of various types of technical change to production cost reductions, quantitative estimates of the contributions of technical change and economies of scale to increased efficiency, and analyses of the relation between technical change and investment and of the sources of new technology.The microeconomic approach is related to certain macrostudies of productivity increase, and several policy implications are drawn.This study should be of great interest to a wide audience including economists, economic historians, and technologists. All those concerned with the problems of economic growth, industrial structure, patent protection, technical invention, research and development, and the general progress of civilian industrial technology will find this book a valuable addition to their libraries.

Technology Choice in Developing Countries - The Textile and Pulp and Paper Industries (Paperback, New Ed): Michel A. Amsalem Technology Choice in Developing Countries - The Textile and Pulp and Paper Industries (Paperback, New Ed)
Michel A. Amsalem
R1,043 Discovery Miles 10 430 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A developing country's choice of an appropriate technology from among those available for use in a particular industry is critical: alternative technological strategies that involve varying mixes of capital, labor, and social costs could have significantly different impacts not only on the industry but also on the country itself, especially one whose industrial base is restricted. This book presents one of the first empirical studies in this area.Recent choices of manufacturing equipment procured by a sample of firms in Colombia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Indonesia are the focus of the study, although a few plants in the US and Japan are also included for comparative purposes. These firms are engaged in the spinning and weaving of short fibers (cotton and synthetics) or in the sulfate pulping of wood and paper making. Since both Latin American and Asian experiences are reviewed and both a mechanical and a chemical process industry are treated, the findings are relevant to other countries and other industries.Amsalem's methodology for evaluating alternative technologies goes beyond the consideration of two factors of production (capital-labor ratios). It enables him to factor in differences in labor skills and productivity, the varying efficiencies of machine utilization, levels of energy intensity appropriate to an industry, plant requirements, and market and social costs. The book also examines the effects of government policies and incentives on the decision processes that culminate in a choice among competing technologies.

Shaw Industries - A History (Hardcover): Randall L. Patton Shaw Industries - A History (Hardcover)
Randall L. Patton
R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The first corporate history of an enduring presence on the worldwide carpet manufacturing scene; Shaw Industries, which is based in Dalton, Georgia, is the nation's leading textile manufacturer and the world's largest producer of carpets. This history focuses on the evolution of Shaw's business strategy and its adaptations to changing economic conditions. Randall L. Patton chronicles Shaw's rise to dominance by drawing on corporate records, industry data, and interviews with Shaw employees and management, including Robert E. Shaw, the only CEO the company has known in its more than thirty years. Patton situates Shaw within both the overall context of Sunbelt economic development and the unique circumstances behind the success of the tufted carpet industry in northwest Georgia. After surveying the state of the carpet industry nationwide at the end of World War II, Patton then tells the Shaw story from the boom years of 1955-1973, through the transitional decade of 1973-1982, the consolidation phase of the 1980s and early 1990s, and the "new economy" of the mid- to late 1990s. Throughout, Patton shows, Shaw's drive has always been toward vertical integration - controlling the outside forces that could affect its bottom line. He tells, for instance, how Shaw built its own trucking fleet and became its own yarn supplier, all to the company's advantage. He also relates less successful ventures, most notably Shaw's attempt at direct retailing. The picture emerges of a company proud of its image as a steady and profitable business surviving in a competitive industry. Patton traces the history of Shaw Industries from its start as a family-owned operation through its growth into a multinational corporation that recently joined Warren Buffett's holding company, Berkshire-Hathway. The Shaw saga has much to tell us about the continuing vitality of "old economy" manufacturers.

Import & Export of Apparel & Textiles (Paperback, 1st ed): Nasim Yousaf Import & Export of Apparel & Textiles (Paperback, 1st ed)
Nasim Yousaf
R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Productivity and Factor Substitution (Hardcover): S. Kumar Productivity and Factor Substitution (Hardcover)
S. Kumar
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From Industry to Alchemy - Burgmaster, a Machine Tool Company (Paperback): Max Holland, Walter Donald Kennedy From Industry to Alchemy - Burgmaster, a Machine Tool Company (Paperback)
Max Holland, Walter Donald Kennedy
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A frequent writer on business and contemporary history, Holland (U. of Virginia) interviewed his own father and other long-time employees of the company to offer a very different view than it promulgated when asking for government relief from foreign competition in the early 1980s. The original titl

Mechanics of Sheet Metal Forming (Paperback, 2nd edition): Jack Hu, Zdzislaw Marciniak, John Duncan Mechanics of Sheet Metal Forming (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Jack Hu, Zdzislaw Marciniak, John Duncan
R1,565 Discovery Miles 15 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The basic theory of sheet metal forming in the automotive, appliance and aircraft industries is given. This fills a gap between the descriptive treatments in most manufacturing texts and the advanced numerical methods used in computer-aided-design systems.
The book may be used by lecturers in undergraduate courses in manufacturing; plentiful exercises and worked examples provide quantitative tutorial problems for students. A separate, but related simulation software package advertised on this page enables students to explore the limits of processes and understand the influence of different process and material variables.
Engineers in stamping plants and press shops find the book useful in understanding what happens during forming and why failures occur. The book is also used as a text for industrial short courses that have been given in many countries. Die designers and tooling engineers find the simple treatment of processes useful at the conceptual design stage and also in determining modifications needed to overcome problems indicated by detailed numerical analysis.
The original text, published 10 years ago, has been completely rewritten for this edition and newer topics such as hydroforming included. Simple equations governing plastic deformation, press forming, bending, punch stretching and deep drawing are derived and explained. The aim is to provide simple applicable methods rather than complex numerical techniques for practising engineers and for students interested in a quantitative and practical approach.
SIMPLIFIED STAMPING SIMULATION SOFTWARE "4S'
The analytical treatment in this book is used to develop simulation modules for simple cases of sheet forming such as stamping, deep drawing, bending and hydroforming. Students can investigate the influence of tooling dimensions, material properties and process variables such as friction on the outcome of operations and see from animated models how, for example, press loads develop during forming. Applications using this package greatly enhance interest in the development of theory in the book.
The website http: //www.mssinternational.com provides further information and an opportunity to run some of the modules.
Presents the fundamentals of sheet metal forming - bending, stretching, press forming, deep drawing and hydroforming
Shows how deformation, loads and process limits can be calculated using simple equations
Concentrates on simple, applicable methods rather than complex numerical techniques
Contains many exercises, worked examples and solutions
Used as a reference text in undergraduate manufacturing courses, as a required text in specialist graduate courses and as a course text for industrial short courses
Is supported by a separate, but related simulation software package described below.

Robust Engineering: Learn How to Boost Quality While Reducing Costs & Time to Market (Hardcover, Ed): Genichi Taguchi, Subir... Robust Engineering: Learn How to Boost Quality While Reducing Costs & Time to Market (Hardcover, Ed)
Genichi Taguchi, Subir Chowdhury
R1,921 Discovery Miles 19 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Powerful and elegantly simple.


Achieve higher quality...lower costs...faster time to market


Companies worldwide have used the methods of quality expert Genichi Taguchi for the past 30 years with phenomenal product development cost savings and quality improvements. Robust Engineering, by this three-time Deming Prize winner, along with Subir Chowdhury and Shin Taguchi, is the first book to explain and illustrate his newest, most revolutionary methodology, Technology Development. It joins Design of Experiments and Robust Design as the framework on which your company can build a competitive edge. Case studies of real-world organizations Ford, ITT, 3M, Minolta, NASA, Nissan, Xerox and 9 others show you how the techniques of all three methodologies can be
successfully applied. Youll hammer flexibility into your manufacturing organization to minimize product development costs, reduce product time-to-market, and fully satisfy customers needs.


Project Management is going to be huge in the next decade...--Fortune


Busy managers single-source guide to planning, organizing and controlling projects


At last theres a concise, compact (5Ó x 8Ó) hands-on guide that puts state-of-the-art management concepts and processes at your fingertips. Project Managers Portable Handbook, by David I. Cleland and Lewis R.
Ireland, is your step-by-step guide to the nuts-and-bolts details that spell project management success. YouÕre shown how to organize and manage everything from small to multiple projects...lead and coach project team
members...and manage within a strategic context from project
partnering to dealing with the board of directors and other stakeholders.
Youll find out how to:
Select and use PM software; Develop winning proposals;
Handle legal considerations; Come out on top in contract

Like a Family - The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (Paperback, New edition): Lu Ann Jones Like a Family - The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (Paperback, New edition)
Lu Ann Jones
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton mill industry during the 1920s and 1930s. Now with a new afterword, this edition stands as an invaluable contribution to American social history. ""The genius of Like a Family lies in its effortless integration of the history of the family--particularly women--into the history of the cotton-mill world.""--Ira Berlin, New York Times Book Review "" Like a Family is history, folklore, and storytelling all rolled into one. It is a living, revelatory chronicle of life rarely observed by the academe. A powerhouse.""--Studs Terkel ""Here is labor history in intensely human terms. Neither great impersonal forces nor deadening statistics are allowed to get in the way of people. If students of the New South want both the dimensions and the feel of life and labor in the textile industry, this book will be immensely satisfying.""-- Choice |A classic study of labor history in the textile industry of the South during the 1920s and 30s. The authors drew from extensive interviews, letters, and newspaper articles to reconstruct the lives and struggles of factory workers and their families. This edition includes a new prologue and epilogue.

Lean Management und Kaizen - Grundlagen aus Fallen und Beispielen in Operations und Supply Chain Management (German, Paperback,... Lean Management und Kaizen - Grundlagen aus Fallen und Beispielen in Operations und Supply Chain Management (German, Paperback, 1. Aufl. 2023)
Marc Helmold
R1,614 Discovery Miles 16 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Das Buch bietet einen ganzheitlichen und praktischen Ansatz fur das Lean Management in der gesamten Wertschoepfungskette eines Unternehmens. Der Rahmen und die Instrumente des Lean Managements zeigen die optimale Gestaltung und Anwendung von Methoden, Werkzeugen und Prinzipien fur Unternehmen und Organisationen. Der Autor beschreibt umfassend, wie Unternehmen durch Lean Management in die Lage versetzt werden, sich auf wertschoepfende Tatigkeiten und Prozesse zu konzentrieren, um einen langfristigen und nachhaltigen Wettbewerbsvorteil zu erzielen. Anhand einer Fulle von Best Practices, Branchenbeispielen und Fallstudien werden die Vielfalt und die Moeglichkeiten von Lean-Management-Methoden, -Methoden und -Prinzipien aufgezeigt. Daruber hinaus zeigt das Buch, wie die Lean-Management-Prinzipien letztlich in Branchen wie der Automobilindustrie, dem Gesundheitswesen, dem Bildungswesen und dem Dienstleistungssektor angewendet werden.

Reconstructing Italian Fashion - America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry (Paperback): Nicola White Reconstructing Italian Fashion - America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry (Paperback)
Nicola White
R1,315 Discovery Miles 13 150 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Despite its long eclipse by Parisian couture, Italian fashion is now celebrated globally for the quality of its tailoring, fabric and design. But an Italian label was not always a yardstick for excellence. In the twenty years following the Second World War, a little known fact is that America played a key role in the development of Italy's fashion industry. More generally known is that the Marshall Plan had a formative influence on the financial and industrial reorganization of Italian postwar reconstruction. But America's specific influence on the regeneration of the Italian textile industry has been largely passed over, despite the meteoric rise of design houses such as Max Mara, Gucci and Prada.However, while American interest was central to the industrial and stylistic expansion of Italian fashion, the lessons learned were combined with Italian ideas and energies to create fashions with a distinctly Italian edge. This book reveals that a deliberate effort went into the development of an Italian national identity in fashion design, partially in response to American interest. Drawing on a wide range of sources, notably the testimonies of key witnesses, contemporary media reports and surviving garments, this book contributes to the scant research on twentieth century Italian dress and specifically exposes for the first time the depth of American involvement in Italian fashion in a crucial phase of its development.

The Course of Industrial Decline - The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955 (Paperback, New Ed): Laurence F.... The Course of Industrial Decline - The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835-1955 (Paperback, New Ed)
Laurence F. Gross
R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Studies of American industry frequently cite Lowell, Massachusetts, as an early model for business practices. Scholars have sought to explain the city's rise to prominence, the impact of its textile mills on workers and on commerce, and its part in regional development and American prosperity. Laurence Gross looks beyond these issues. Focusing on Lowell's Boott Cotton Mills, he examines the industry's struggle to maintain its prominence, the causes of its decline, and its ultimate flight south.

Gross puts much of the blame for the pattern of events on the mill-owners themselves. They resisted reinvestment, so their operations became less efficient. They kept antiquated machinery running long after it was safe to do so, and they were slow to respond to issues of worker safety. The increased textile demands of World War II, Gross explains, only forestalled the mills' inevitable demise.

Freedpeople in the Tobacco South - Virginia, 1860-1900 (Paperback, New edition): Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie Freedpeople in the Tobacco South - Virginia, 1860-1900 (Paperback, New edition)
Jeffrey R Kerr-Ritchie
R1,257 Discovery Miles 12 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed market conditions, sparked a breakdown of traditional tobacco culture. Focusing on the transformation of social relations between former slaves and former masters, Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of African American migration at the turn of the twentieth century. Drawing upon a rich array of sources, Kerr-Ritchie situates the struggles of newly freed people within the shifting parameters of an older slave world, examines the prolonged agricultural depression and structural transformation the tobacco economy underwent between the 1870s and 1890s, and surveys the effects of these various changes on former masters as well as former slaves. While the number of older freedpeople who owned small parcels of land increased phenomenally during this period, he notes, so too did the number of freedom's younger generation who deserted the region's farms and plantations for Virginia's towns and cities. Both these processes contributed to the gradual transformation of the tobacco region in particular and the state in general. |Focusing on the transformation of relations between Virginia slaves and former masters, this book traces the trajectory of this breakdown from the advent of emancipation to the stirrings of black migration to towns and cities.

Hiring the Black Worker - The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 (Paperback, New edition): Timothy... Hiring the Black Worker - The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980 (Paperback, New edition)
Timothy J Minchin
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling account of the integration of the mills. Minchin argues that the role of a labor shortage in spurring black hiring has been overemphasized, pointing instead to the federal government's influence in pressing the textile industry to integrate. He also highlights the critical part played by African American activists. Encouraged by passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, black workers filed antidiscrimination lawsuits against nearly all of the major textile companies. Still, Minchin notes, even after the integration of the mills, African American workers encountered considerable resistance: black women faced continued hiring discrimination, while black men found themselves shunted into low-paying jobs with little hope of promotion. |Based on oral history interviews and never-before-used legal records, this book reveals how African American men and women fought to integrate the South's largest industry.

Like Night and Day - Unionization in a Southern Mill Town (Paperback, New edition): Daniel J. Clark Like Night and Day - Unionization in a Southern Mill Town (Paperback, New edition)
Daniel J. Clark
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Daniel Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, North Carolina, in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Specifically, Clark points to the importance members placed on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements. From the signing of contracts in 1943 until a devastating strike fifteen years later, the union gave local workers the tools they needed to secure at least some measure of workplace autonomy and respect from their employer. Union-instituted grievance procedures were not without flaws, says Clark, but they were the linchpin of these efforts. When arbitration and grievance agreements collapsed in 1958, the result was the strike that ultimately broke the union. Based on complete access to company archives and transcripts of grievance hearings, this case study recasts our understanding of labor-management relations in the postwar South. |Clark demonstrates the dramatic impact unionization made on the lives of textile workers in Henderson, N.C., in the decade after World War II. Focusing on the Harriet and Henderson Cotton Mills, he shows that workers valued the Textile Workers Union of America for more than the higher wages and improved benefits it secured for them. Members also placed great importance on union-instituted grievance and arbitration procedures, which most labor historians have seen as impediments rather than improvements. Based on complete access to company archives and transcripts of grievance hearings, this case study recasts our understanding of labor-management relations in the postwar South.

Why Didn't I Think of That? - Bizarre Origins of Ingenious Inventions We Couldn't Live Without (Paperback, New):... Why Didn't I Think of That? - Bizarre Origins of Ingenious Inventions We Couldn't Live Without (Paperback, New)
Allyn Freeman, Bob Golden
R722 R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Ben & Jerry originally wanted to start a bagel business, but they couldn't afford the bagel-making machine?

  • The Slinky(r) toy was born aboard a World War II battleship?
  • Band-Aids(r) were invented by a husband to help his accident-prone wife dress her own cuts and bruises at home?
  • The idea for Velcro(r) came from cockleburs that got stuck on an engineer's wool trousers and in his dog's fur?

Ever wonder how anyone came up with the idea for a product you couldn't imagine living without? Familiar products like Velcro(r) ,disposable diapers, Post-It Notes(r) ,and coffee filters. Read this book and you'll discover — once more — that truth is indeed often stranger than fiction. You'll also see that coming up with a million-dollar idea isn't as difficult as you think. This collection of entrepreneurs ranges from housewives to PhDs.

Filled with wacky and fascinating facts, awe-inspiring success statistics, and rags-to-riches stories, Why Didn't I Think of That? chronicles the odd origins behind 50 famous inventions and reveals the business side of each product's actual production, marketing, and distribution. You'll discover how inventors from all walks of life struck it rich with unlikely contraptions that range from the practical (like Tampax(r) and Tupperware(r) ) to the curiously inane (like the Barbie(r) doll and Silly Putty(r) ).

Inspirational, detailed, and always quirky, this delightful book captures all of the drama and colorful history of products like Heinz(r) ketchup, The Club(r) , Jell-O(r) ,Hallmark(r) cards, Trojan(r) condoms, Vaseline(r) , Rollerblades(r) , Kitty Litter(r) , the Swiss Army(r) Knife, Bic(r) pens, Dirt Devil(r) , Pampers(r) , S.O.S(r) pads, and many more.

Motorsport-Management - Grundlagen - Prozesse - Visionen (German, Paperback, 2. Aufl. 2022): Bettina Reuter Motorsport-Management - Grundlagen - Prozesse - Visionen (German, Paperback, 2. Aufl. 2022)
Bettina Reuter
R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Der Motorsport bietet mit seiner Vielzahl an unterschiedlichen Serien, Klassifikationen und Veranstaltungsarten ein breites Spektrum an Betatigungsfeldern. In diesem hochkomplexen und interdisziplinaren Arbeitsumfeld werden ganz besondere Anforderungen an das Management gestellt. Aktive in dieser Branche, aber auch Motorsportinteressierte finden in diesem Buch einen fundierten UEberblick zu den speziellen Anforderungen des Motorsport-Managements. Die Autoren des Bandes vermitteln grundlegendes Fachwissen uber die Organisationsstrukturen und Disziplinen des Motorsports und die fur diese Top-Sportart relevanten Prozesse - stets verknupft mit vielen Beispielen aus der Praxis. In den einundzwanzig Kapiteln machen sie die Leser mit den Ablaufen und Reglements in den nationalen und internationalen Motorsportserien vertraut und zeigen die Strukturen und rechtlichen Fragestellungen dieses popularen Sports auf den unterschiedlichen Ebenen: zwischen Teams, Herstellern, Fahrern, Veranstaltern und den Dach- und Weltverbanden des Motorsports. Die Projekt- und Managementtechniken mit Schwerpunkt Teammanagement, Marketing, Finanzierung sowie ein Blick auf die zukunftigen Entwicklungen des Motorsports komplettieren die Themen. Ziel ist es, dem Leser einen umfassenden Einblick in die High Performance Welt des Motorsports zu geben und die Vielfalt der motorsportlichen Bereiche darzustellen. Der Motorsport von heute ist konfrontiert mit neuen Werten und einem erhoehten Wunsch nach Ressourcenerhaltung und Nachhaltigkeit unseres Planeten. Dabei kann der Motorsport selbst auch Katalysator fur diesen Fortschritt sein. Die Beitrage dieses Werkes zeigen auf, wie der Motorsport als Technologievorreiter mit seinen schnellen und dynamischen Prozessen, Innovationskraft und Kreativitat aktuelle Herausforderungen meistern kann.

Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries (Paperback): Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski Policy, Regulation and Innovation in China's Electricity and Telecom Industries (Paperback)
Loren Brandt, Thomas G. Rawski
R1,178 Discovery Miles 11 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The scale of China's innovation ambitions inspires worldwide commentary, much of it poorly informed. Focusing on electricity, telecommunication and semiconductors, this book offers a richly detailed account of China's innovation efforts. Massive application of human, policy and financial resources shows great promise, but institutional obstacles, conflicting objectives, ill-advised policies and Soviet-era legacies inject inefficiencies, resulting in a complex mosaic of success and failure in both technical and commercial dimensions. State Grid leads the world in high-voltage power transmission, while domestic semiconductors lag behind the international frontier. Electricity and telecom providers record impressive technical advances, but overinvestment and inefficient operation contribute to high costs and prices. Nuclear power combines technical excellence with commercial weakness. Cost reduction rather than new technology underpins commercial success in solar materials. The book's granular studies look beyond specific technologies to incorporate the policy matrix, regulatory structures and global developments into the appraisal of China's innovation achievements.

What Do We Need a Union For? - The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 (Paperback, New edition): Timothy J Minchin What Do We Need a Union For? - The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 (Paperback, New edition)
Timothy J Minchin
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased--with little help from the unions. Timothy Minchin argues that the reasons behind the failure of textile unions in the postwar South lie not in stereotypical assumptions of mill workers' passivity or anti-union hostility but in these large-scale social changes. Minchin addresses the challenges faced by the TWUA--competition from nonunion mills that matched or exceeded union wages, charges of racism and radicalism within the union, and conflict between its northern and southern branches--and focuses especially on the devastating general strike of 1951. Drawing extensively on oral histories and archival records, he presents a close look at southern textile communities within the context of the larger history of southern labor, linking events in the textile industry to the broader social and economic impact of World War II on American society. |Minchin argues that the reasons behind the failure of textile unions in the postwar South lie not in stereotypical assumptions of mill workers' passivity or antiunion hostility but in large-scale social changes. Drawing extensively on oral histories and archival records, he looks at southern textile communities within the context of the larger history of southern labor, linking events in the textile industry to the broader social and economic impact of World War II on American society.

Developing a Make or Buy Strategy for Manufacturing Business (Hardcover): David Probert Developing a Make or Buy Strategy for Manufacturing Business (Hardcover)
David Probert
R1,882 R1,735 Discovery Miles 17 350 Save R147 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

How can a company decide where to concentrate its expertise? Why are some companies better at exploiting their strengths than others? Is there a link between the range of a company's activities and its success and profitability? These are just some of the questions at the heart of a make or buy strategy for manufacturing business. Most companies will face issues such as these at some time or other, and in resolving them will determine the future shape of the business - for better or worse. Based on original research and case experience, this book presents a structured approach to making these important decisions. By drawing on the collective knowledge of people in the company, a make or buy strategy can be developed which focuses manufacturing capability on the factors critical to business success. The key aspects covered include: the links between business strategy, vertical integration in manufacturing industry, and business performance; why a make or buy strategy is central to manufacturing capability and business results; the difference between strategic, tactical and component make or buy issues; the best practice approach to make or buy decisions; what is involved in developing an optimal make or buy strategy for a business; how to apply the approach to your own business. The book is aimed at directors and managers from manufacturing companies concerned with developing their capabilities and focusing their strengths, but many other people in manufacturing, finance, engineering, purchasing and service operations will find something of value in this book.

Creating the Modern South - Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Douglas... Creating the Modern South - Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984 (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Douglas Flamming
R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In "Creating the Modern South," Douglas Flamming examines one hundred years in the life of the mill and the town of Dalton, Georgia, providing a uniquely perceptive view of Dixie's social and economic transformation.
"Beautifully written, it combines the rich specificity of a case study with broadly applicable synthetic conclusions."--"Technology and Culture"
"A detailed and nuanced study of community development. . . . "Creating the Modern South" is an important book and will be of interest to anyone in the field of labor history."--"Journal of Economic History"
"A rich and provocative study. . . . Its major contribution to our knowledge of the South is its careful account of the evolution and collapse of mill culture."--"Journal of Southern History"
"Ambitious, and at times provocative, "Creating the Modern South" is a well-researched, highly readable, and engaging book."--"Journal of American History"

Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Paperback, New): Gary Gereffi, Miguel Korzeniewicz Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism (Paperback, New)
Gary Gereffi, Miguel Korzeniewicz
R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The current restructuring of the world-economy under global capitalism has further integrated international trade and production. It thus has brought to the fore the key role of commodity chains in the relationships of capital, labor, and states. Commodity chains are most simply defined as the link between successive processes of manufacturing that result in a final product available for individual consumption. Each production site in the chain involves organizing the acquisition of necessary raw materials plus semifinished inputs, the recruitment of labor power and its provisioning, arranging transportation to the next site, and the construction of modes of distribution (via markets and transfers) and consumption. The contributors to this volume explore and elaborate the global commodity chains (GCCs) approach, which reformulates the basic conceptual categories for analyzing varied patterns of global organization and change. The GCC framework allows the authors to pose questions about development issues, past and present, that are not easily handled by previous paradigms and to more adequately forge the macro-micro links between processes that are generally assumed to be discretely contained within global, national, and local units of analysis. The paradigm that GCCs embody is a network-centered, historical approach that probes above and below the level of the nation-state to better analyze structure and change in the contemporary world.

The New American Workplace - Transforming Work Systems in the United States (Hardcover): Rosemary Batt The New American Workplace - Transforming Work Systems in the United States (Hardcover)
Rosemary Batt
R3,810 Discovery Miles 38 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Abwicklung Von Blechkoerpern (German, Paperback, 1992 ed.): Alfred Boege Abwicklung Von Blechkoerpern (German, Paperback, 1992 ed.)
Alfred Boege
R2,035 Discovery Miles 20 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Das Buch ist Lehr- und Nachschlagewerk fur alle, die in der Ausbildung oder in der Praxis mit der Herstellung oder Entwicklung von technischen Gebilden aus Blech zu tun haben. Es kann daher den Facharbeitern, Technikern und Ingenieuren ebenso empfohlen werden wie den Auszubildenden der entsprechenden Berufe und den Studierenden an Technikerschulen, Fachhochschulen und Univer- sitaten. Zum Buch ist eine 5 1/4 Diskette erhaltlich . mit wichtigen Berechnungspro- fur Blechabwicklungen und Blechzuschnitte. So werden die grammen Grundlagen im Buch durch Berechnungsprogramme fur die Praxis optimal erganzt. Braunschweig, Januar 1992 Alfred Boege VI Inhaltsverzeichnis I Grundlagen der Blechabwicklungen 1 Zeichnerische Fertigkeiten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 1 Errichten des Lotes auf einer Geraden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 2 Errichten des Lotes in einer Blechecke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1. 3 Errichten des Lotes im Endpunkt einer Strecke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. 4 Halbieren einer Strecke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. 5 Halbieren eines Winkels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. 6 Fallen eines Lotes auf eine Gerade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. 7 Dreiteilen eines rechten Winkels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. 8 Dreiteilen eines beliebig spitzen Winkels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1. 9 Mittelpunktsbestimmung im Kreis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. 10 Tangente an einen Kreis im gegebenen Punkt anlegen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. 11 Tangente an einen Kreis von einem gegebenen Punkt aus anlegen. . . 5 1. 12 Tangente an einen Kreis ohne Mittelpunkt anlegen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 13 Tangenten an zwei gegebene Kreise anlegen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. 14 Teilen einer Strecke in gleich grosse Teile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. 15 Parallelen zu Geraden und Boegen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. 16 Zeichnen flacher Kreisboegen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. 17 Teilen eines Kreisumfanges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . . . . . . . . . 1. 18 Konstruktion der wichtigsten Flachenformen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . . . .

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