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    Plant Closure Case Study

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    The Plant Closure of Electro-Motive Canada The General Motors Diesel Division/Electro-Motive Canada Plant in London, Ontario was born in 1950 after the Second World War. This was a huge success for the City of London. The Plant manufactured and built diesel and electric Locomotives, buses, light armoured vehicles, and had a sister plant in La Grange, Illinois, U.S.A., which we’re all destined for the North American railway freight marketplace. General Motors Corp also ran its automotive plants…

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    The term globalization has many meanings such as technological and cultural processes. How often do you look at your article of clothing and/or other objects that you use in your day to day life, and see that it is made in a country other than US? This is why the US is considered a lazy country to many other countries. We put every other country through the labor just so we can buy it for cheap and sell it for more on US territory, while the people who worked their behinds off get paid way lower…

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    The creation of factories across different countries displaced thousands from their homes. While many argue that they provided capital by creating jobs, it also left thousands of unskilled workers in the United States jobless. The pay rate compared to any other job, was the…

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    machines and manufacturing. Even though our country is still founded and is comprised of some agricultural nature, especially in the south, but most of the lands that were used for just farming or housing was bought up by companies so they could build factories and build cities on them. This changed the economy by more input of money and gave many people jobs but it did take away the land we were used to live on as a country. As the land was being bought, cities were being built, and the…

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    Feminism Vs Fatalism

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    result, women workers can be paid lower wages, be trained easily, and can accept the discipline of factory life easily (Reddy, 2007; Poster, 2001; Kerr, 1999; Elson and Pearson, 1981). All of these “merits” were favoured by the profit-chasing capitalism…

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    Rosie The Riveter

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    cultural icon to stand for Women’s rights and feminist efforts. Rosie reflects the conflicts and spirit of her time through her profession as a wartime riveter. She represents the housewives, secretaries, and childcare workers who were called to the factories during the war. She now represents a generation of “Rosie’s,” the women who worked in traditionally male-dominated fields during World War II. Although Rosie the Riveter did originate in posters, she has developed into her own character…

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    They both had prior experience of imitation. Japan had copied from China and Russia from Byzantium and the Mongols. They knew that learning from the West could be profitable and wouldn’t destroy their native cultures. In Japan, the Emperor Meiji sent out samurai to parts of the West to pick up ideas. Western style clothing such as ties, pants, and loafers replaced traditional samurai outfitting. Western hygiene including toothbrushes, vaccines and patent medicines were introduced and…

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    DBQ The Industrial Revolution can be characterized by the transition to new manufacturing processes during the 18th and early 19th century. Accordingly, the Industrial Revolution brought many material benefits including, machines, which made work more efficient, it allowed mass production of goods, which made goods more affordable, and transportation was significantly improved, allowing easier travel between locations. However, the material benefits of the Industrial Revolution were outweighed…

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    that manufactures received from using railroads. They truly depended on trains for all stages of a factories development: constructing the factory with imported steel and concrete, powering the factory with imported coal, exporting products from the factory, bringing employees to work, and taking waste to dump sites. It all required railroads and without the railroads there would’ve been no factories or industrial north. Trains carrying such a vast amount not only completed all these tasks but…

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    An advisory board meets with the chairman and president twice each month to fine tune operations, and Lincoln trusts its workers and does not micromanage them. Managers oversee around 100 workers each, so the factory employees operate with very little supervision. Although the managers have authoritarian power, there is an open-door policy which allows workers to reach specialized personnel without running through a chain of command. One might think that with…

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