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Creative accounting in the British Industrial Revolution: Cotton manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement.
Toms, Steven; Shepherd, Alice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...
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‘Cold, Calculating Political Economy’: Fixed costs, the Rate of Profit and the Length of the Working Day in the Factory Act Debates, 1832-1847.
Toms, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The paper re-analyses the evidence presented by pro and anti-regulation interests during the debates on factory reform. To do so it considers the interrelationship between fixed costs, the rate of profit and the length of the working day. The interrelationship casts new light on the lobbying...
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Innovazione, reti di comunicazione e di competenze. Elda Cecchele, Roberta di Camerino e gli artigiani della campagna veneta
Inguanotto, Irina; Tattara, Giuseppe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper deals with the role played by the Laboratorio Tessile of Elda Cecchele in the production of fabric for fashion clothing and accessories in the 50s and 60s. The Laboratorio supplied many important Italian stylists, in particular Giuliana Camerino and Franca Polacco in Venice. The...
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Organizational alternatives for flexible manufacturing systems
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
There is an increasing importance of different productive architectures related to worker involvement in the decision making, where is given due attention to the intuitive capabilities and the human knowledge in the optimization and flexibilization of manufacturing processes. Thus having...
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How Do Trade, Foreign Investment, and Technology Affect Employment Patterns in Organized Indian Manufacturing?
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The present study investigates into the impact of trade, foreign investment, and technology on three different … technology, and tested for a sample of Indian industries. The research suggests that trade has been employment promoting for … investment has been observed to be negative for contract and unskilled workers. The overall impact of technology encompassing in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514892
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Information Society, Work and the Generation of New Forms of Social Exclusion (SOWING): National Report (Portugal)
Moniz, António; Gomes, Cláudia; Machado, Tiago; Urze, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
The choice over the Portuguese case studies was based on the sample constructed for the application of the firm questionnaires, during the second year of the SOWING project, 1999. This sample was fulfilled of firms among several activity sectors: textile, manufacturing, electronics, transports...
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Skill bias, age and organizational change
O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper considers evidence on the impact of ICT on demand for different types of workers, focusing in particular on the age dimension. It first examines data from EUKLEMS using regressions standard in the literature and suggests ICT may have adversely affected older workers, in particular...
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Learning to Innovate vs. Learning to Manufacture: Towards an Alternative Technology Strategy
Tyabji, Nasir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
India's diversified and sophisticated manufacturing base contrasts strongly with the near complete absence of visible innovative capabilities. This article examines the Indian "National System of Innovation" in order to address the question of the evident distinction between the ability to make...
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Technology and skill-upgrading: Results from linked worker-plant data for Finnish manufacturing
Vainiomäki, Jari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
technology and demand factors. The linked worker-plant data are produced by matching workers in the Employment Statistics … technology on skill demand we introduce plant level technology indicators from the R&D Survey and a Manufacturing Technology …
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Cross national technology convergence. An empirical study for the period 2000-2010.
Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper discuses most current issues on technology implementation dynamics observed across nations, as well as it … focuses on the problem of suppose technology convergence (or divergence) among nations. The author implements and verifies the …
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