... technicians’ exposures. The air ratchet, tire-changing machine, and tire-bead seater were measured at noise levels >85 dBA, increasing the risk of noise-induced hearing loss to the technicians. automobile industry exposure assessment hearing loss noise risk assessment NIOSH Mountain and Plains...

... investigation programmes over motor vehicle engine products in the US automobile industry from 1977 to 2003. The results show that the agency appears to initially focus on increasing technical efficiency, but shifts its attention to other aspects of performance, such as fairness, as it repeats investigation...

... manufacturing as it once was and must respond to increasing competition from emergent auto-making regions in the southern USA and Mexico. regions resiliency workplace governance automobile industry B15 J5 L62 O51 In addition, we would add that while recognising the integration of regions into the global...

... noise level reduction translates into decreased hearing loss at these plants. automobile industry noise retrospective exposure assessment task-based exposure Once department boundaries were established for each historic period, we linked each historic sound level measurement to a department using...

...-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) is miscible with both water and organic solvents, making it a powerful polar solvent for many industrial applications. Its primary use is as a solvent for varnishes, paints, and coating materials in the chemical and automobile industries. It is also used as an additive...

...) the active exploitation of existing local differences. Strategic differentiation is heavily dependent on the specifics of place, while the specifics of place themselves can serve as additional, pre-existing sources of differentiation. maquiladoras spatialisation organisation of production automobile...

... email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org 2008 Abstract In this paper we examine relationships between university engineering programmes at the Universities of Waterloo and Windsor and the automobile industry in Southern Ontario which reflect TNC strategies and state innovation policies which...

... Katzenstein P J Müller M Dunning J H new industries chemical industry pharmaceutical industry oil rubber electrical engineering mechanical engineering automobile industry transport equipment This chapter deals with enterprises in chemicals and pharmaceuticals, oil and rubber and other non-metallic...

... to an extensive and unique list of “real-world” business and economic reasons that have caused FDI to be attractive to a growing number of companies in a growing number of countries. The concluding section is a case study of the automobile industry, a sector that can be used to illustrate a large number...

... defense production labor shortages automobile industry aircraft industry female workers male shop culture The densely masculine auto manufacturing workplace was essentially the creation of men and mirrored many of the rough elements in male culture. Though native-born and immigrant women worked...

... Coleman Aero Club Afro-American Automobile Association automobile industry Blanche Armwood Beatty coalition economics George Washington Murray Headen Motor Company Robert S. Abbott social networks technological visions When Headen returned to Chicago in early 1919, he announced the opening...

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... industries, followed by a synthetic overview of the development of the two national industrial relations systems and the description of the specific trade union and industrial relations patterns at Ford and General Motors. automobile industry British Leyland ‘national champions’ Volkswagen BMW ‘British...

...—the linchpin of gender inequality. It considers the relationship between women workers and labor unions and the American labor movement more generally. It also discusses union responses to workforce feminization, along with the sexual division of labor in the automobile industry during World War II. After...

... and the automobile industry respectively. This chapter thereby tries to trace the development of the two Chinese industries, focusing on the role of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and their exports records or export potentials. The relative strengths of the Chinese electronics and IT industry as an exporter...

...This chapter carries out an in-depth analysis of the transformation of China's automobile industry and its labor force over the past two decades, with particular attention on how shop-floor, national, and global processes interact in complex ways to produce the specific industrial relations...

... Lane Franklin New York Tribune Cartwright George Wilder John Raskob influence General Motors DuPont automobile industry consumer culture By the end of the Great War, Raskob’s holdings in General Motors and DuPont were worth millions. The DuPont‒GM deal he had engineered had made him...

... Raskob General Motors capitalists automobile industry Raskob had managed the GM crisis with calm, even unnerving competence. He never publicly revealed any self-doubt about his own role in GM’s troubles. Nothing in his personal correspondence suggests he ever had any private doubts, either. Nor did...

... in the automobile industry had to come up with ways to cope with the downfall of Japan's bubble economy and Japan's depressed auto market. As Toyota Motor Corp. remained an independent company, it can be observed that this company's counterstrategy has made significant effects not just on the global industry...

... cluster innovation transformation automobile (industry) Tesla energy (grid) modularity interoperability the second-wave innovation system in the United States is being disrupted. Similar changes are showing up worldwide. The cause is clear. Digital technology helped enable a rapidly...