No abstract available. / Thesis (M.Dev.Studies.)-University of Natal, Durban, 2000.

One of the most significant changes within capitalist nations during the late twentieth century is the transition of the capitalist mode of production from Fordism to Post-Fordism. Changes in macro-economic market conditions, production processes and labour processes are part of the transition. These changes are felt not only at the level of the aggregate economy, economic sectors, firms and labour markets. They have an impact on the employment relationship and the way workers make their livelihoods. This dissertation provides empirical evidence of labour market flexibility in the clothing manufacturing and the clothing retail sectors and demonstrates that the number of hours worked and wages earned have implications for the livelihoods of workers. The research was undertaken in a clothing manufacturer and clothing retailer situated outside of Durban. The clothing manufacturer is located within an industrial area in Tongaat and the clothing retailer is located within a regional shopping centre in Westville. / Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

The creative class, creative economy and creative cities are all heralds of current North American planning directions. My research seeks to understand how the Art Factory, a multi-tenant and multi-purpose artist space, contributes to the lives of artists and the general creative potential of a city. This research is a case study of cre8ery, an art factory located in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, the gentrifying cultural quarter of the city. I interviewed ten artists, exploring how cre8ery affected their social, professional and economic lives. cre8ery serves as a gateway into the art world for emerging artists by providing stability and opportunities to them. In general, Art Factories are centres of cultural entrepreneurship, an activity essential to the health of artists and the city. I also explore the shift of the artist populations in Winnipeg due to gentrification, offering several policy initiatives that would either stem or support this shift.

This research and documentation project of surviving Indianapolis automobile factories examines the importance of Indianapolis, Indiana, as a center of automobile manufacturing in its early days. Automobile factories appeared in the city as early as 1895, and were often an outgrowth of bicycle or carriage-building companies. This followed a national trend. As the industry grew, Indianapolis firms continued to produce low-volume, high-quality cars instead of the more popular, low-cost cars being produced by Ford and other Michigan-based manufacturers. The recession of 1921 and the Great Depression of 1929 decimated the market for expensive cars and by 1937 all Indianapolis-based firms were out of the automobile business. A number of their production facilities remain and are employed in a variety of uses. This project documents these buildings and recommends a range of adaptive re-uses based on successful conversions. / Department of Architecture

The creative class, creative economy and creative cities are all heralds of current North American planning directions. My research seeks to understand how the Art Factory, a multi-tenant and multi-purpose artist space, contributes to the lives of artists and the general creative potential of a city. This research is a case study of cre8ery, an art factory located in Winnipeg’s Exchange District, the gentrifying cultural quarter of the city. I interviewed ten artists, exploring how cre8ery affected their social, professional and economic lives. cre8ery serves as a gateway into the art world for emerging artists by providing stability and opportunities to them. In general, Art Factories are centres of cultural entrepreneurship, an activity essential to the health of artists and the city. I also explore the shift of the artist populations in Winnipeg due to gentrification, offering several policy initiatives that would either stem or support this shift.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:38:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5873.pdf: 18361989 bytes, checksum: aa84d5e2b78c768ce7e17cd33b8253c9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-19 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / The context generated by the productive restructuring associated with financial crises and changes in the Brazilian economy in the late 1990s led to the collapse of many companies and resulted in increased unemployment and increasing instability and insecurity of labor relations. Thus, workers sought other forms of livelihood, including the associated work. ANTEAG (Associação Nacional de Trabalhadores em Empresas de Autogestão e Participação Acionária) [National Association of Self-Management Companies Workers] emerged in this context, with the goal of supporting groups of workers to unite and take control of bankrupt factories in which they worked, preserving their jobs. So, the first recovered factories emerged. At this time, the movement of the Solidarity Economy also begins to grow, and Unisol Brazil (Central de Cooperativas e Empreendimentos Solidários) [Central of Cooperatives and Solidary Enterprises] arises to support various types of solidary economic enterprises, including the recovered factories. Thus, the purpose of our research was to make a general analysis of the current situation of recovered factories in Brazil. To do this, we return to some of the pioneering experiments of recovered companies. Our goal was to understand if and how cooperative and self-managed values are present in these enterprises today. So, we performed a literature review of case studies about recovered factories and visited several experiences of this type, where we conducted observations and interviewed leaders and workers, using semi-structured scripts. In addition, we seek to look at our subject from an international perspective, so we visited Argentina and France. In general, we note that, although the ideals of cooperatives and self-management remain in the speeches of many workers, their enforcement encounters many obstacles in practice. In other words, to be viable, recuperated factories face many pressures in the market, which eventually modify some of your initial goals. / O contexto gerado pela reestruturação produtiva associada às crises financeiras e mudanças na economia brasileira no final dos anos 1990 provocou a falência de muitas empresas e resultou em aumento do desemprego e precarização das relações de trabalho. Assim, os trabalhadores foram levados a buscar outras formas de obter renda, entre as quais, o trabalho associado. A ANTEAG (Associação Nacional de Trabalhadores em Empresas de Autogestão e Participação Acionária) surgiu nesse contexto, com o objetivo de apoiar grupos de trabalhadores a se unirem e assumirem o controle das fábricas falidas onde trabalhavam, preservando seus postos de trabalho. Surgiram, então, as primeiras fábricas recuperadas . Nesse momento, também passa a ganhar força o movimento da Economia Solidária, e é criada a UNISOL Brasil (Central de Cooperativas e Empreendimentos Solidários), que passa a apoiar diversos tipos de empreendimentos econômicos solidários, entre os quais as fábricas recuperadas. Assim, a proposta de nossa pesquisa foi fazer um balanço da situação atual das fábricas recuperadas no Brasil, a partir do retorno a algumas experiências pioneiras de recuperação de empresas. Nosso objetivo foi verificar se e em que medida os valores cooperativos e autogestionários se fazem presentes nesses empreendimentos até hoje. Para tanto, realizamos uma revisão bibliográfica de estudos de caso sobre as fábricas recuperadas e visitamos diversos empreendimentos desse tipo, onde realizamos observações e entrevistamos lideranças e trabalhadores. Além disso, buscamos olhar para nosso tema à luz de uma perspectiva internacional, a partir de visitas à Argentina e a França. De maneira geral, notamos que, embora os ideais do cooperativismo e da chamada autogestão permaneçam presentes nos discursos de muitos trabalhadores, sua efetivação encontra muitos obstáculos na prática, uma vez que, para serem viáveis, as fábricas recuperadas enfrentam muitas pressões do mercado, que acabam por modificar alguns de seus objetivos iniciais.

Orientador: José Walter Canôas / Banca: Alfredo Argus / Banca: Íris Fenner Bertani / Resumo: O presente estudo tem como objetivo conhecer como se processa a relação entre o trabalho e a educação nas indústrias de calçados de Franca, considerando principalmente o momento histórico atual, de grandes mudanças decorrentes do novo modelo de organização do trabalho e da reestruturação produtiva, ou seja, de 1980 aos dias de hoje. A proposta ensejou a consulta a estudos sobre o mundo do trabalho e a educação do trabalhador com a finalidade de apreender como as relações de produção educam o trabalhador para o trabalho, destacando a influência dos valores e interesses da classe dominante nesse processo. Para maior compreensão da relação estabelecida entre trabalho e educação fez-se necessário resgatar a história de organização dos trabalhadores e sua vinculação com o processo educativo, desde suas origens até o momento atual, ressaltando a concepção da sociedade sobre a educação do trabalhador, inserindo Franca neste contexto. A análise dos dados levantados, aliada à prática profissional desenvolvida nessas indústrias, possibilitou a compreensão da trajetória do trabalhador e as formas como o mesmo foi se definindo e redefinindo dentro da organização. Permitiu, ainda, constatar que o olhar sobre o trabalhador e deste sobre si mesmo ao longo do processo histórico assume várias dimensões, estabelecendo contornos mais favoráveis ao seu desenvolvimento pessoal e social. A pesquisa de campo realizada fornece dados que indicam caminhos aos educadores que atuam na área organizacional e se deparam com novos desafios em sua jornada profissional visando contribuir com o trabalhador enquanto ator político e sujeito principal do processo de construção da sociedade. / Abstract: This study aims to know how the relationship between work and education happens at shoes factories in Franca considering, mainly, the present historical moment of great changes caused by the new organizational work model and by the production restructuring, in short, from 1980 to nowadays. The proposal included the study of researches about the work affair and the workers' education with the objetive of understanding how the production relationships educate the workers for their functions focusing on the values and interests of the dominant class in this process. For a better understanding of the relationship between work and education, it was necessary to consider the workers organization history and its connection with the educational process since its origins up to the present times, emphasizing the conception of society and the workers' education, inserting Franca in this context. The analyses of the data, together with the professional practice developed in these factories, made it possible to understand the workers' trajectory and the ways they defined and redefined themselves in these organizations. It also permitted to verify that the look on the worker and from him to himself throughout the historic process has several dimensions, stabilishing more favorable facets to the workers' personal and social development. A field research was carried out to obtain data that indicate alternatives to the educators who work in the organizational area and face new challenges in their career aiming to contribute with the workers as political beings and main subject of the society constructing process. / Mestre

The diploma thesis being submitted deals with the issue of applying managerial strategies and their economic impacts on the České Budějovice pencil factory within the years 1945-1948. The core sources for this analysis were mostly annual reports and operation reports, meeting minutes, statistical reports, correspondence, and sources of private nature. The thesis builds upon the methodological bases of business history. The most prominent pencil industry people of the post-war era became the main subject of the research. Based on the business strategies of these managers, the following parts of the thesis then focused on economic evolution, on which they applied both vertical and horizontal comparisons. The advertising activities of these pencil factories or the negotiations with the former subsidiaries represented by the Hardmuth family did not go unnoticed either. The key contribution of this thesis lies in its analysis of the nationalization process followed by the centralization of the Czechoslovakian pencil industry.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:23:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2009-09-25Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:51:00Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 romaojunior_ra_me_ilha.pdf: 1695973 bytes, checksum: 6992b12bda00db43f59a137a888f15ab (MD5) / Com o aumento da mecanização da colheita de cana de açúcar e a diminuição da prática de queima prévia da palha nos canaviais em função de protocolos ambientais estabelecidos entre os usineiros e o governo, cresce significativamente a quantidade de palha disponível no campo. Neste trabalho é analisada a utilização de palha como combustível suplementar para caldeiras convencionais de alta pressão (para bagaço), possibilitando assim um aumento de geração de energia excedente com a possibilidade de ser exportada para comercialização. Para tanto, são realizados estudos de perdas, ganhos e investimentos com a introdução da palha na indústria através de análises termodinâmicas de geração de energia, produção de álcool e açúcar, eficiências de equipamentos como colhedoras de cana, sistema de lavagem de cana a seco, picador de palha, caldeira de alta pressão, moagem da cana, entre outros. Como o poder calorífico inferior da palha é quase o dobro do poder calorífico do bagaço a geração de energia excedente para comercialização apresenta uma grande vantagem para o setor, sendo as perdas em produção de açúcar e álcool poucos significantes devido ao alto valor da venda de eletricidade / With the increasing mechanization of the sugar cane harvest and the decline in the prior practice of burning of sugar cane straw, due to ambient protocols established by government and sugar and alcohol industries factories, there is a significant increase of the amount of straw available in the field. This paper considers the use of straw as additional fuel in conventional high-pressure boilers (of bagasse), thus enabling an increase in generation of energy surplus with the possibility to be exported for commercialization. For this, studies of losses, gains and investments are carried out with the introduction of straw in the industry through thermodynamics analysis to generate energy, production of alcohol and sugar, efficiencies of equipment like as mechanical cane harvest, washing system of cane to be dried, mincer of straw, high-pressure boiler, milling of sugar cane, among others. As the lower power heating of the straw is nearly twice of lower power heating the bagasse the generation of energy for commercialization presents a great advantage for the factories, and the losses in production of sugar and alcohol are not much significant due to the high value of electric energy sale