A Study of the Toyota Production System: From an Industrial Engineering Viewpoint
Author: Shigeo Shingo
This is the "green book" that started it all -- the first book in English on JIT, written from the engineer's viewpoint. When Omark Industries bought 500 copies and studied it companywide, Omark became the American pioneer in JIT.
Here is Dr. Shingo's classic industrial engineering rationale for the priority of process-based over operational improvements in manufacturing. He explains the basic mechanisms of the Toyota production system, examines production as a functional network of processes and operations, and then discusses the mechanism necessary to make JIT possible in any manufacturing plant.
- Provides original source material on Just-ln-Time
- Demonstrates new ways to think about profit, inventory, waste, and productivity
- Explains the principles of leveling, standard work procedures, multi-machine handling, supplier relations, and much more
If you are a serious student of manufacturing, you will benefit greatly from reading this primary resource on the powerful fundamentals of JIT.
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Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically about Global Issues
Author: Paula Rothenberg
At a time when events anywhere in the world have the potential to impact almost instantaneously on life in the most remote hamlet, village, or town, it is essential that students learn how to think globally. Paula Rothenberg's Beyond Borders is an interdisciplinary collection that brings today's most pressing issues into the classroom. Designed to help prepare today's college students to assume their roles as members of an increasingly global community, this powerful collection includes 82 articles written by today's leading scholars, activists, and policymakers from around the world. In the tradition of Rothenberg's other widely acclaimed college texts, these highly readable, often gripping, articles are presented within a conceptual framework that encourages a thoughtful understanding of the complexities that have given rise to the issues they address. It has never been more important for students to learn to think critically about the world and their place in it. Beyond Borders is designed to help create such classroom conversations in courses across the disciplines.
Table of Contents:
Preface | xv | |
Acknowledgments | xix | |
Meet the Players | xxi | |
Part 1 | Putting Things in Perspective | 1 |
1 | The Function of Maps | 7 |
2 | Are Things What They Seem to Be? Reading Maps and Statistics | 16 |
3 | Gender Issues in Labour Statistics | 27 |
4 | Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds | 37 |
5 | One-Third/Two-Thirds Worlds | 41 |
6 | How Textbooks Around the World Portray U.S. History: The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny | 44 |
7 | Lapulapu and Magellan | 58 |
8 | Mass Media: For the Many, by the Few | 60 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 73 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 73 | |
Part 2 | Colonialism and Its Legacy | 75 |
1 | Empire as a Way of Life | 81 |
2 | How It Began | 88 |
3 | Eurocentrism | 97 |
4 | The Legacy of Colonialism | 99 |
5 | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa | 107 |
6 | Colonialism in Africa, 1914 (map) | 126 |
7 | Open Veins of Latin America | 127 |
8 | Women, Colonisation, and Racism | 142 |
9 | The Myth of Catching-up Development | 150 |
10 | The Second Coming of Columbus: Piracy Through Patents | 158 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 164 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 165 | |
Part 3 | Constructing Difference: Creating "Other" Identities | 167 |
1 | Assigning Value to Difference | 173 |
2 | Hatred Written on the Body | 180 |
3 | Stories from Rwanda | 195 |
4 | Construction of an Enemy | 205 |
5 | On Being South Asian in North America | 209 |
6 | Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew | 216 |
7 | Old and New Identities | 220 |
8 | Sexual Identities: Western Imperialism? | 224 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 245 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 246 | |
Part 4 | Patriarchy and Domination | 247 |
1 | The Patriarchal Family | 253 |
2 | The Foundation of Gender Identity: Garaba, Relational Connectivity, and Patriarchy | 256 |
3 | Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley | 264 |
4 | Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker | 271 |
5 | Violence Against Women | 278 |
6 | Culture of Honor, Culture of Change: A Feminist Analysis of Honor Killings in Rural Turkey | 288 |
7 | The Connection Between Militarism and Violence Against Women | 307 |
8 | The Impact of Political Conflict on Women: The Case of Afghanistan | 311 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 315 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 316 | |
Part 5 | Poverty, Inequality, and Structural Violence | 317 |
1 | Inequality in the Global Village | 323 |
2 | Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy | 330 |
3 | Is World Poverty Falling? | 340 |
4 | A Critical Look at Measurements of Economic Progress | 346 |
5 | The Current State of Global Health | 356 |
6 | Macroeconomics of Health: No Health Available at $7.50 per Person per Year | 364 |
7 | Suffering and Structural Violence | 368 |
8 | Testimony by FannyAnn Eddy at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights | 394 |
9 | Facts on Child Labour | 396 |
10 | World Poverty and Hunger Fact Sheet | 398 |
11 | Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice | 400 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 409 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 409 | |
Part 6 | Transnational Institutions and the Global Economy | 411 |
1 | Globalization and Its Discontents: The Promise of Global Institutions | 419 |
2 | Race, Poverty, and Globalization | 432 |
3 | On the Backs of Women and Children | 437 |
4 | Privatization and Urban Issues: A Global Perspective | 440 |
5 | Plunder and Profit | 446 |
6 | The WTO and Globalization | 449 |
7 | The Globalization of Poverty | 453 |
8 | Shall We Leave It to the Experts? | 461 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 468 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 469 | |
Part 7 | Globalization in Everyday Life | 471 |
1 | The Human Face of Economics in Argentina | 477 |
2 | The Maquila in Guatemala: Facts and Trends | 481 |
3 | Plan Puebla Panama | 488 |
4 | GE Goes South | 490 |
5 | Ground Down in the Fields: Coffee and State Authority in Colombia | 493 |
6 | Latin American Indigenous Movements in the Context of Globalization | 498 |
7 | Globalization and the Caribbean | 505 |
8 | Debts, Reforms, and Social Services in Africa | 507 |
9 | The Impact of Water Privatization on South African Women | 509 |
10 | Water Privatization Charts | 515 |
11 | Global Apartheid: AIDS and Murder by Patent | 517 |
12 | The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline | 523 |
13 | Squeezed by Debt and Time, Mothers Ship Babies to China | 526 |
14 | Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy | 530 |
15 | Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia | 540 |
16 | The Globalized Village | 542 |
17 | Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us | 545 |
18 | How Europe Sows Misery in Africa | 547 |
19 | India's Poor Starve as Wheat Rots | 551 |
20 | The Crisis of Potato Growers in U.P. | 554 |
21 | Study Finds TV Trims Fiji Girls' Body Image and Eating Habits | 558 |
22 | The World Bank and the "Next Green Revolution": Devastating IMF/World Bank Sponsored Environmental Projects in the Name of Progress | 561 |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 570 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 571 | |
Part 8 | Toward a More Equitable Future: Grassroots Movements for Social Change | 573 |
1 | Small Is Beautiful: Airports, McDonald's, and Hypermarkets in Mexico | 577 |
2 | Building Water Democracy: People's Victory Against Coca-Cola in Plachimada | 580 |
3 | Nigerian Women Win Out Against Oil Giants | 584 |
4 | The New Student Movement | 585 |
5 | Filipino Dump Activists Turn Waste into Wealth | 591 |
6 | The Grameen Bank | 594 |
A Sampling of NGOs Working for Social Change | 598 | |
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion | 602 | |
Afterword | 603 | |
The Cost of American Privilege | 603 | |
Index | 607 |
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