Fordism

Toyotism, also known as Toyota Production System (TPS), is the term used by the analogy with Fordism to designate the management and production system first developed in Japan by the Toyota company. Lean Production, instead is often used as a generic name in order to take in account all the changes and additions made to the original TPS. It is without any doubts that we can state that one of the fathers of the system was Taiichi Ohno who had the charge of a production engineering manager at…

According to George Kateb, “The principal mission of utopianism is to encourage the hope that human nature is changeable for the better beyond the limits assigned by worldly pessimism or theological despair” (Kateb 621). As this is true, the new world is lucky that it is possible to alter aspects of human nature. Due to this advantage, the creation of this utopia is feasible. As these changes seem to better society, there is nothing else to improve. Therefore, change is undesirable and…

With Fordism came an economic shift and an increase in factory workers. With this, comes uproar in Progressive America because men and women complained that they were poorly paid in these unsafe factories, and they feel that their freedom was taking away by the…

Bullshit jobs: Is a concept created by David Graeber in his 2013 article “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It explains how productive jobs have decreased due to the automation of manufacturing jobs. Many jobs are meaningless and have little other purpose than organising peoples time. It shows the shift from capitalism through the creation of jobs to a point where many of these jobs are now redundant but jobs and the commodification of labour are largely the back bone of capitalism and thus…

Famous Italian sociologist Antonio Gramsci is known to be one of the most influential figures in Marxist criminology. Gramsci developed the phrase “hegemony” which supports the idea that the upper class rule and control the environment to better their needs. Marxian theory claims that we live in a capitalist society in which the upper class own the means of production while the lower class sell their labor for money. Gramsci focused on how capitalist ruling classes kept their ruling positions.…

Wow, I can’t believe the school year is over in less than a month. Graduation is so soon! Hope you’re all enjoying your placements as the year ends. My LSS was away last week so it was a quiet day at the office. I handed out postcards to a few passerby’s’ interested in the Network. I also answered phone inquires over (mostly about the Riverdale Art Walk application). Then I updated the media calendar with important dates/events, jotted down new Art Square Gallery submissions, tweeted a bit,…

and fellow working class Americans would be able to afford Ford’s own products, thus allowing him to make a higher profit off of his own workers. This business concept is well established within our society today, in fact several companies use the “Fordism” precedent to advance their own profits. However, this may come to a standstill as several young workers, being paid minimum wage, continuously protest for a high pay. The minimum wage is asked to be raised to about 15 dollars where as of…

Standing in Oakley Square the neighborhood of Oakley resembles mini-city centers across the Midwest. The buildings, hustle and bustle, and general atmosphere are reminiscent of small town organization, but just a mile away Oakley looks like a suburban shopping destination represented by several large chain stores, sprawling empty, parking lots, franchise restaurants, and easy highway access. Oakley has reorganized and reshuffled. It would be nearly impossible now to recognize it as the worlds…

Habermas notes that newspapers were initially commercial sheets that dissemin- ated “news” (i.e. what was novel and contemporary), but then were transformed into instruments of political debate under the pressures of the American and French Revolutions and the organization of political groups to revolutionize society. Yet newspapers also fell prey to commercial imperatives and often put profit and busi- ness interests above political opinion, selling advertising…

• The generation in Roaring 20s was very well called as ‘lost generation’. In which, where many rejected old traditions and were discouraged by the outcome of the war, they all tend to seek for joyful, entertaining and a new lifestyle. The 1920’s had its own good and bad to offer the economy, In which bad was: the red scare, Radical Violence, increasing Racial tensions, and poverty amongst Native Americans, and good was: advanced technology, better living conditions for middle-class, more…