Industrial Workers of the World

industriel. Déjà en émergence depuis 1840, avec les conditions de travail instaurées par le travail à la chaine, les syndicats explosent. C’est le développement du syndicalisme de métiers. Dès 1886 une centrale syndicale, l’American Federation of Labor (AFL, Confédération Américaine du Travail), se constitua L’idéologie de l’AFL de Gompers. Le gompérisme repose sur l’idée que l’ouvrier qualifié étant rare et recherché, doit par une organisation monopoliste fermant ses portes aux nouveaux venus

Export Processing Zones: A Review in Need of Update Takayoshi Kusago Zafiris Tzannatos Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 9802 January 1998 Social Protection Group Human Development Network The World Bank Washington, DC 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS REFERENCES.............................................................................................................................................. 2 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................

Course 1: Pre-industrial Society primary sector agriculture agricultural economy / revolution subsistence agriculture to cultivate land to cultivate a crop crop food crop : wheat, maize (US corn) subsistence crops cash crop : cotton, rubber, coffee etc. fishing, hunting mining, forestry commodity raw material(s) minerals bullion secteur primaire agriculture économie agricole / révolution agriculture de subsistance cultiver la terre cultiver une denrée récolte, culture, denrée récolte alimentaire

1886. The Victorian time indicates literally the period of the queen Victoria. It was mainly marked by the boom of the industrial revolution where known England a prosperity economic intense . The Victorian prosperity based on three facts: the free trade, the adaptation of the agriculture, the industrial development. London, among which the city and the warehouses were the center of the world economy, extended and embellishes. It became the first port of redistribution of the world: the tea, the

ASSIGNMENT Question 1: With the rise of globalization, many companies are turning to either “off shoring” or “outsourcing”. Explain how both India and China has benefitted from the current trend of “outsourcing” and “off shoring. TABLE OF CONTENT I. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………..page 4, 5, 6 II. Why India is a big attraction of off shoring and outsourcing and it successful impact on their economy? A. An economic liberalization facilitating the welcome of the foreign direct investments……………………………………………

The European map represents the different waves of the Industrialization Revolution from UK, the first wave, in 1835, is in France Switzerland and Belgium, the Stats witch are behind England. The second, in 1850, is at east of France (Germany, Italy, etc), the last, after 1915 is, the countries witch don’t had industrialization yet. It represents also industrial regions in 1850 and 1930 took place where are the big cities from 500 000 to 1 million or more inhabitants. There are industrial regions

than a 1 % of the world GDP before 1978, China became a powerful exporter. It took the head of the world exporters of textile industries, shoes, toys, electronic products... Its products have invaded the world, especially after its membership to the WTO in 2001. For two decades this increase of the exports provoked a strong growth which exceeds every year the 9 %. According to Lemoine (2008), the growth rate of the Chinese economy is doubtless lower than the official figure: closer of 7 % that 9

using shared platforms and common production processes. Table of contents Introduction I / History and evolution of the car industry A: Growth since the early 1900s and technological breakthroughs B: Standardization of the mean of production and new management theories II/ Changes in the car sector A: Changes in mentalities, perceptions of the car B: New trends and adaptability of car constructors III/ The effect of global economic crisis on car industry A: From crises to highly

very important role in the nation, plays the key economic, social and cultural role. The United-States are conceded as the most powerful and richest nation in the world thanks to infancy of its business. The story of capitalism in the United-States began in the second part of the 19th century mostly after the Civil War (guerre de Sécession) in 1865. From 1855 to the end of the Civil War, the United-States experienced an incredible economic development which symbolizes the United-Sates economic development

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 1.0 THE BACKGROUND of the crisis of the 1970S 2 1.1 The symptoms of the crisis 2 1.11 The slowdown of the growth rate 2 1.12 An inflation rate of double digits 3 1.2 The shocks bring complications 3 1.3 Structural factors worsening the situation 3 1.31 Demographic changes 3 1.32 The crisis of traditional industries 3 1.33 New needs and new values 4 2.0 LIMITATION OF THE TRADE UNIONS’ ABILITY TO mobilisE WORKERS in France