From Assembly Lines To Home Offices

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761380000
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Assembly Lines to Home Offices written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people use computers to work from home and other places. And special equipment makes work safer than in the past. But long ago, computers didn’t exist. Safety equipment hadn’t been invented either. In what other ways has work changed over time? Read this book to find out! Learn how daily life has changed over time in the Comparing Past and Present series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books TM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books TM bring nonfiction topics to life!

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761367489
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Assembly Lines to Home Offices written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares and contrasts workers and work of today with the workers and work of the past, looking at technologies used, types of jobs, and workplace safety.

Author : Carlos de Morais Cordeiro
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9814360821
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks written by Carlos de Morais Cordeiro and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive yet easy coverage of ad hoc and sensor networks and fills the gap of existing literature in this growing field. It emphasizes that there is a major interdependence among various layers of the network protocol stack. Contrary to wired or even one-hop cellular networks, the lack of a fixed infrastructure, the inherent mobility, the wireless channel, and the underlying routing mechanism by ad hoc and sensor networks introduce a number of technological challenges that are difficult to address within the boundaries of a single protocol layer. All existing textbooks on the subject often focus on a specific aspect of the technology, and fail to provide critical insights on cross-layer interdependencies. To fully understand these intriguing networks, one need to grasp specific solutions individually, and also the many interdependencies and cross-layer interactions.

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761367470
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Washboards to Washing Machines written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how household tools have changed, from how homes are heated and cooled to how clothes and dishes are cleaned.

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761367454
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Typewriters to Text Messages written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces communication and discusses how methods of communication have changed.

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761367438
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Model T to Hybrid Cars written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares and contrasts cars and transportation of today with the cars and transportation of the past, looking at technologies used, types of transportation, and passenger safety.

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761380027
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Marbles to Video Games written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many kids play video games or ride on skateboards. But long ago, these fun activities didn’t exist. Kids rode around on roller skates. They played games with jacks and marbles. What other toys and games have changed over time? Read this book to find out! Learn how daily life has changed over time in the Comparing Past and Present series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books TM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books TM bring nonfiction topics to life!

Author : Jennifer Boothroyd
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0761380019
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Chalkboards to Computers written by Jennifer Boothroyd and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many kids take backpacks to school. Many teachers write on dry-erase boards or use computers. But long ago, these tools didn’t exist. Students carried their books with book straps. Teachers wrote on black chalkboards. In what other ways has school changed? Read this book to find out! Learn how daily life has changed over time in the Comparing Past and Present series—part of the Lightning Bolt Books TM collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books TM bring nonfiction topics to life!

Author : David E. Nye
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262527596
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Assembly Line written by David E. Nye and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation. The mechanized assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin's little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) In America's Assembly Line, David Nye examines the industrial innovation that made the United States productive and wealthy in the twentieth century. The assembly line—developed at the Ford Motor Company in 1913 for the mass production of Model Ts—first created and then served an expanding mass market. It also transformed industrial labor. By 1980, Japan had reinvented the assembly line as a system of “lean manufacturing”; American industry reluctantly adopted the new approach. Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford's pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing.

Author : Anthony Lloyd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317108469
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line written by Anthony Lloyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a product of its time, the call centre utilises new developments in telecommunications and information technology to offer cost-efficient delivery systems for customer care. Efficiency, productivity and flexibility are all embodiments of neoliberal market capitalism and are all personified in the call centre operation, as well as the structure of the labour market in general. Thus the individual and the workplace are embedded in a variety of global processes. In order to frame the context in which call centre operations exist today and their employees (mainly young men and women) negotiate the increasingly risky and individualised task of developing an identity or sense of belonging in the world, Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line sets out the economic, social and political changes over the last three decades that have restructured the labour market, altered the balance between labour, management and the state, and unleashed global market capitalism upon previously sheltered areas of the economy and social life in both Britain and elsewhere. This ground-breaking book offers one of the first real qualitative sociological investigations of a relatively new form of employment, to see what life is like on the 'post-industrial assembly line', whilst also taking a close look at the nature of class, identity and subjectivity in relation to young people coming of age in a world dramatically altered over the last three decades.