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by Robert Whittingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
The Blame Machine describes how disasters and serious accidents result from recurring, but potentially avoidable, human errors. It shows how such errors are preventable because they result from defective systems within a company. From real incidents, you will be able to identify common causes of human...
Safety Cases and Safety Reports
Meaning, Motivation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The safety case and its associated reports are quickly becoming not only a mechanism for achieving safety goals, but also a valuable decision-support asset, and a vital industrial liability management tool. Recent developments in industry have led to safety cases being frequently required as contractual...
Creative Engineering Design Assessment
Background, Directions, Manual, Scoring Guide and Uses
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
The Creative Engineering Design Assessment or CEDA is a newly developed tool to assess creativity specific to engineering design which is vital for innovation. The revised CEDA assesses usefulness in addition to originality. Both originality and usefulness are key constructs in creativity but are...
European Commission Decisions on Competition
Economic Perspectives on Landmark Antitrust and Merger Cases
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
European Commission Decisions on Competition provides a comprehensive economic classification and analysis of all European Commission decisions adopted pursuant to Articles 101, 102 and 106 of the FEU Treaty from 1962 to 2009. It also includes a sample of landmark European merger cases. The decisions...
Serviceology for Services
Selected papers of the 1st International Conference of Serviceology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Services are key activities in the globalization of the economy and also underlie the quality of life of local residents. The advanced work presented in this book was selected from the proceedings of the First International Conference on Serviceology (ICServ2013), held October 16–18, 2013 in Tokyo....
Unfree Masters
Popular Music and the Politics of Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television...
The Australian Trade Practices Act 1974
Proscriptions and Prescriptions for a More Competitive Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book presents a collection of papers which evaluate the achievements of the Australian Trade Practices Act 1974 in making Australian markets more competitive. The contributors have all played major roles in Australian and New Zealand antitrust actions, either as expert economic witnesses, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
This volume presents selected peer-reviewed, revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers who participated in the World Congress on Engineering 2015, held in London, UK, 1-3 July, 2015. This large international conference covered advances in engineering technologies and...
The Dublin Lockout, 1913
New Perspectives on Class War & its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Putting Ireland on trial, Jim Larkin’s verdict was damning and resolute. His words resound, shuddering towards the present day where class division and workers’ rights disputes make headlines with swelling frequency. In this pioneering collection, an exemplary list of contributors registers the...
Men, Mobs, and Law
Anti-Lynching and Labor Defense in U.S. Radical History
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
In Men, Mobs, and Law, Rebecca N. Hill compares two seemingly unrelated types of leftist protest campaigns: those intended to defend labor organizers from prosecution and those seeking to memorialize lynching victims and stop the practice of lynching. Arguing that these forms of protest are related...
by Seyed Taghi Akhavan Niaki, Hamed Fazlollahtabar
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Availability of a system is a crucial factor for planning and optimization. The concept is more challenging for modern systems such as robots and autonomous systems consisting of a complex configuration of components. As complex systems have become global and essential in today’s society, their...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
Making the Empire Work
Labor and United States Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men...
by Jasbir Singh Arora, Ph.D., Mechanics and Hydraulics
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Introduction to Optimum Design, Fourth Edition, carries on the tradition of the most widely used textbook in engineering optimization and optimum design courses. It is intended for use in a first course on engineering design and optimization at the undergraduate or graduate level in engineering departments...