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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"American industry"”.
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Organized labor & the efficiency movement in American industry
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1934
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The position and opportunities of women in American industry
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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The Foreign Element: New Immigrants and American Industry, 1914--1924
This dissertation advances on previous studies by synthesizing various elements of the labor, immigration, and political history of the period and comparatively analyzing different industries and immigrant groups in a global context, while recognizing new immigrants as actors in the period's …
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Adoption and Implementation of the Marketing Concept by American Industry
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T17:53:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7021016.pdf: 8043560 bytes, checksum: a01a303a684a7afabbd640f4b0a3d509 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1970
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The environmental transformation of American industry : an institutional account of organizational evolution in the chemical and petroleum industries, (1960-1993)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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An Experimental Study to Determine the Relative Growth of a Selected Group of Industrial Arts Education Majors Toward Gaining An Understandingof American Industry
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Measuring safety climate as an indicator of effective safety and health programs in the construction industry
… their Experience Modification Rates and North American Industry Classification System codes. A six-item Likert-type scale was utilized to measure safety climate perceptions and safe behavior experiences. Responses suggest that participants’ overall perceptions of their companies’ safety …
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Measuring The Capabilities Infrastructure: A County-Level Index Of Nonprofit And Private Sector Organizational And Physical Community Capital
… inequality, and poverty. Drawing on 2015 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) data, this research study creates a tool for measuring the nonprofit and private organizational and physical resource environment of communities at the county-level by aggregating establishment counts …
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Analysis of Factors Involved in the Location of Manufacturing Firms in Rural Nebraska Since 1950
… ago it was predicted that the migration of American industry would produce a crisis in the Midwest. Manufacturing plants, attracted by the climate or favorable tax and labor policies were expected to shift their operation to the South and West. It was feared the shift would become an …
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A comparison of downtown and suburban office markets
… The paper uses employment data categorized by industry using the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Employee counts are estimated from the establishment data available by zip code from the U.S. Census Bureau. By using employment data at the zip code level, the study is able …
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Analyzing Industry Clusters and Foundations of Regional Partnerships with Consideration of the I-29 Corridor Task Force in South Dakota
… the I-29 Corridor Task Force including analyzing industry clusters and foundations of regional partnerships in South Dakota. There were two primary objectives of this research. The first was to create cluster definitions and evaluate traded industry clusters in South Dakota and the I-29 Corridor …
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A multiple case study on the information system to support self-managing teams
There is a management revolution in American industry, where many organizations are Switching from the old “control” paradigm to the new paradigm in “high involvement organizations.” Assumptions of the involvement paradigm are employees can make important contributions and are capable of making …
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The design of a pilot plant for the production of monosodium glutamate
… has grown from a by-product of the sugar beet industry to an important position in today’s food commodities. Monosodium glutamate is made from Steffan's waste, corn gluten, wheat gluten, and other similar proteinaceous materials. In trying to find moro and better uses for soybeans, it was …
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Reluctant realists: the Pacific Northwest lumber industry, federal labor standards and union legislation during the New Deal
… with reference to the Northwest lumber industry and its response to New Deal labor standards and labor union legislation. The Northwest lumber industry during the 1920s and 1930s was beset by the problems of overproduction and cut throat competition which plagued much of American …
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Using Waste Diversion Indicators To Understand The Diversion Efficiency and the Materials Handled Efficiency of Canadian Solid Waste Management Systems
… current expenditure per tonne handled, and North American Industry Classification System Gross Domestic Product Sector 562 per tonne handled efficiency measures to analyze the federation of Canada and identify efficient and inefficient waste management systems. In doing so it was found that using …
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Taxing Conditions: The Fiscal interest of the State and the Rise of the Modern Corporation in America
At the end of the nineteenth century, American corporate law changed into its modern, permissive form. Emerging first in \NJ[,] the new laws allowed corporations to own each other, and using them capitalists solved their collective action problem of ruinous competition, reorganizing American …
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Inventing Intelligence: On the History of Complex Information Processing and Artificial Intelligence in the United States in the Mid-Twentieth Century
… intellectual priorities of the U.S. military and American industry during the Cold War, circa 1952 to 1961. This thesis offers a detailed and comparative account of the early careers, research interests, and key outputs of four researchers often credited with laying the foundations for AI and …
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Markets and Hierarchies in Late Colonial Spanish America: The Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752--1813
… component of the Bourbon plan for the Spanish American industry well before the State had any significant knowledge of the colonial industry. The centralization of manufacture did not imply any ""modernization"" or any major changes in transformation costs with respect to the artisanal …
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Recycled Modernity: Google, Immigration History, and the Limits for H-1B
… by information technology. The history of American industry produced corporations determined to control and exploit every detail of their affairs. In the process, industrial corporations used immigration as a labor resource. Google portrayed itself, and Google has been portrayed by media …
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