machine-industry

"What these companies specialize in might not be high-tech in the conventional sense, but they're among the most complex things you can imagine," says Thomas Kautzsch, machine-industry consultant at Oliver Wyman in Munich.

The Factory Of Factories 2008

England home and study the reaction of machine-industry on the life of the town.

An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

The two outstanding features of the new order were the rise of machine-industry with its incalculable acceleration of mass-production, and the correlative development of cheap and rapid transportation.

The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

The social and moral progress of industrial nations requires, as a first condition of orderly progress, that these cases of arrested growth shall be absorbed into the general mass of machine-industry.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

Our analysis of the structure of modern industry shows the progressive socialisation of certain classes of industry as a step in the order of events, equally natural and necessary with the earlier steps by which machine-industry superseded handicraft and crystallised in ever larger masses with changing relations to one another.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

Hobson, in summing up this question, regards the tendency of machine-industry to drive women away from the home as "a tendency antagonistic to civilization."

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

The increasing employment of women in machine-industry is in nearly all cases directly traceable to the "cheapness" of woman's labour as compared with man's.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

Modern machine-industry has in the first place sharpened the distinction between the "working classes," whose name indicates that their primary function is to labour and not to live, and the comfortable classes, whose primary function is to live and not to labour, which private enterprise in machine-industry has greatly enlarged.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

But though the townward drift, owing in large measure to the land-hunger of the aristocracy and wealthy merchant class, and the labour-saving economy of large farming, was clearly visible before the development of machine-industry, it is probable that Young's estimate goes beyond the facts.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

As the area of machine-industry spreads, so this movement of population will become more general, and as towns grow larger so it would appear that this power to suck in the rural population is stronger and more extensive.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899