Many call this model of schooling the «factory model» because it was codified during the industrial revolution and follows the contours of a factory — blocks of students going down the conveyor belt of standardized subjects and grade levels to
produce industrial workers.
When most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to
produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tasks.
Not exact matches
Consider a company such as New Pig that
produces absorbents for
industrial use that are utilized for spill response, handling various toxic materials, filtering liquids and keeping
workers safe while they tackle tough
industrial cleanups.
A National Cancer Institute long - termstudy, involving25, 619
industrial workers in 10 factories that
produced or used formaldehyde, found an increased risk of death due to leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, and higher rates of nasal - pharynx cancer.Further examination of the same
workers, with ten more years of data, continued to show a possible link to leukemia, as well as lymphoma and multiple myeloma, amongthosewiththe highest exposures.
Writing on this image in his 1964 essay The Plates of the Encylopedia, Roland Barthes observed that the operator of this proto -
industrial machine is «not a
worker but a little lord who plays on a kind of technological organ [who]
produces an extremely fine web».
Experience hours upon hours of SHEER ENJOYMENT imagining how, during the second coming of Christ, Ann Lee, at the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution, realized that «heterosexual marriage had
produced a multitude of starving children whose cheap labor was exploited by factory
workers.»