Sentences with phrase «industrial age system»

It was far less influenced by the ideas of Taylor and his colleagues and far more influenced by the ideas of Peter Drucker and other post-war thinkers who were interested in the advantages to be enjoyed by companies willing to entertain the abandonment of the mass - production industrial age system in favor of professional forms of work organization better suited to competition based on the generation and application of new knowledge.

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But when it does, it is also choosing a system which leaves some people unable to provide for themselves, whether for reasons of disability, age, industrial dislocation, lack of marketable skills, etc..

Pupils may further be put into classes on the basis of prospective occupation or occupation type, as in the European multiple - track system, in which at a certain age — say, twelve — pupils are separated into «industrial» or «vocational,» «business» or «commercial,» and «academic» or «college preparatory» segments.

Her first two books examined the locavore movement in Canada and the industrial food system, while her latest is a cooking manual designed for young people (ages 10 and up).

«For flexibility,» Pinkett Smith told an Essence reporter, «so they can stay with us when we travel, and also because the school system in this country — public and private — is designed for the industrial age.

GOPNIK: What happened is that in the 19th century, we started developing a system of school that was designed to get children to learn a narrow set of skills needed for the industrial age.

When it comes to school systems, Rose says it's no accident how we got here: Schools were designed during the industrial age by people who were «absolutely obsessed» with averages because averages worked so well in managing factories.

That comprehensive plan, as I wrote, would give educators lots of flexibility «by reducing the number of rules tied to federal dollars in exchange for transparency and choice» — conditions that should promote innovation and the reinvention of an education system built for the industrial age.

In his book, Kosher: Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food, Professor Timothy Lytton finds that the system of private kosher certification is highly reliable.

Starting in Bronze - Age China and India, Beckert weaves thousands of years of cotton's history into an intricate panorama of globalization; interconnected economic, social and political systems; and the technological innovations that became the impetus for the Industrial Revolution.

Rooted in the age of the Enlightenment and industrial society, the present system of education also carries the institutional heritage of discipline and control.

And while you are doing that, davie, you might tell us in your own words how less than 1c warming since the end of the little ice age and the beginning of the industrial revolution, measured with ever changing systems in areas of exponential land use change by people who have a total, consensual belief in global warming by ACO2 and no demonstrable scientific scepticism whatsoever, must constitute a «bad thing», awa being scientifically based and believable.

Beginning with cultivation and accelerating with the Industrial Revolution, our planet left the Holocene Age and entered what geologists call the Anthropocene Age, in which human systems erode the natural systems that support life.

From thermal equilibrium (radiative forcing relatively zero including natural variation) for the past 10,000 years (Holocene), since the beginning of the Industrial age, the earth climate system is currently estimated to be 3.6 W / m2 positively charged (GHG's, and -2.0 W / m2 negatively charged (aerosols).

The Queensboro Bridge is a beautiful artifact of the industrial age and this project represents the transition that can and must be made from the industrial age, dependent on fossil fuels, to an industrial era that lives off of solar income... wind is solar energy too, and all sustainability is about getting the income to expense ratio on solar income to something that can be sustained by living systems.

«For those of us in the industrial real estate business, we will look at this as the Golden Age,» says Meyer, who has been working with a major retailer to revamp the company's distribution system and roll out 10MM sq ft of new fulfillment centers across the nation.