Format:
1 online resource (457 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415683128
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9781136300356
Content:
The process of globalization has brought about countless changes in societies, communities, regions and economies across the globe. In going back to the real origins of the global economy, this unique book demonstrates that the process of globalization was accompanied by the mastering of 'social time', thereby producing a progressive increase in the speed of business transactions, both in manufacturing and in services
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The coordination of time -- Spatio-temporal approaches -- PART I Terrestrial globalization -- 2 Exploring the globe -- A European miracle -- Interactions with the Arab World -- Europeans on the move -- European expansion -- Marco Polo -- The Su Sung clock -- Admiral Zheng He -- China:The Middle Kingdom -- Portugal -- Nautical knowledge -- Spain -- Columbus -- The Treaty of Tordesillas -- Imperial Spain -- 3 The emergence of temporalities -- Calendars -- Calendar reform -- Hours -- Medieval times -- Monasteries -- Revolution in time -- The first phase of the mechanical clock (1300-1500) -- Temperance -- The second phase of the mechanical clock (1500-1650) -- The clock as metaphor -- 4 The age of merchant capitalism -- International trading companies -- Amsterdam as center of trade and commerce -- The Dutch revolt (1568-1648) -- The VOC -- Temporal coordination of barges -- Maurits' military revolution -- Organization of the VOC -- The WIC -- The slave trade -- The demise of the VOC -- Britain takes over -- The third phase of the mechanical clock: the marine chronometer (1657-1761) -- PART II Industrial globalization -- 5 Time in British industry and railroad transport -- Mining -- Josiah Wedgwood -- The Lunar Society -- Early forms of marketing -- Britain's industrious revolution -- The Industrial Revolution in the textile industry -- Robert Owen -- Trains -- Telegraphy -- Steamships -- The Great Exhibition -- 6 Politics and time -- The French Revolution and a new rational order -- The French calendar -- Standardization -- Labor's protest -- Australia and the eight-hour day -- The international labor movement -- 7 Speed in transport and industry -- The American system of manufacture -- Railroads and military practice
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Cosmopolitanization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Management of railroads -- Railroad time zones -- The modern factory system -- Labor resistance -- The Greenwich Observatory bomb -- 8 Time and motion -- Work -- Etienne-Jules Marey -- The European Science of Work -- Frederick Winslow Taylor -- Gilbreth's motion studies -- Scientific Management popularized -- Henry Ford -- European responses -- Charles Eugene Bedaux -- Stakhanovism -- Fordism -- Sloan and General Motors -- Conclusion -- 9 Time and emotion -- Information-processing and electric appliances industries -- Welfare work -- The Hawthorne experiments -- Elton Mayo -- Bank-wiring test room -- Outcomes of the experiments -- Harvard and Human Relations -- The Great Depression -- The Marshall Plan -- Peter Drucker -- 10 The accelerated transfer of people and cargo -- Initial steps to aviation -- Wristwatches -- Aviation -- Pan Am's global expansion -- Airplane producers -- Jet engines -- Deregulation -- Air cargo -- Sea transport -- Outlook -- PART III Electronic globalization -- 11 Information and communication revolution -- IBM -- Outlook -- 12 The Japanese miracle and just-in-time -- Time concepts -- Reconstruction of Japanese society -- The quality issue -- Quality and just-in-time at the Toyota company -- American response -- American quality management -- Buzzwords -- 13 Flexitime -- Japanese challenges -- Timing -- American responses -- The flexible firm -- The European Union approach -- Lisbon -- Convergence versus divergence -- Outlook -- 14 Time and cultures -- Multinational enterprises -- The handcuff of time -- Daylight Saving Time practices -- Timeframes in cultures -- High- and low-context cultures -- Clock time and event time -- Polychronic and monochronic time -- Corporate culture and time -- International corporate cultures and time -- Chronomanagement -- Timescape management -- 15 Epilog -- The end of the fourth wave
Additional Edition:
Print version Karsten, Luchien Globalization and Time Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415683128
Language:
English
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