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Flexible Automation in Developing Countries
This book examines the extent of, and motives for, the diffusion of flexible automation (FA) at global level and then turns to the local and firm level, bringing together in-depth studies of sixty-two firms in Brazil, India, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and Venezuela. Research focuses on the impact of computer-numerically-controlled machine tools on scale and scope by exploring changes in lot sizes and product variety (product scale and scope), total plant output (plant scale) and total firm output (firm scale). Barriers to setting up FA-based operations are discussed, as are factors which may affect a decision to locate in a developing country. The contributed studies reveal a relatively slow d...
Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire
De-Westernizing the communications history of Turkey and its imperial predecessor The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communications and how it affected production and practice for oppressed populations like women, the working class, and ethnic and religious minorities. Moving from the mid-nineteenth century through today, Çelik places networks within the changing geopolitical landscape and the evolution of modern capitalism in relationship to struggles involving a range of social and political actors. Throughout, she challenges Anglo- and Eurocentric assumptions that see the non-West as an ahistorical imitation of, or aberration from, the development of Western communications. Ambitious and comprehensive, Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire merges political economy with social history to challenge Western-centered assumptions about the origins and development of modern communications.
6THINTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT SUMMIT 2024
The 6th INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT SUMMIT (ETMS 2024), organized by Başkent University, was held in Ankara, Türkiye, from October 17-19, 2024. This year’s theme, “Engineering and Technology Management in Defense Industry,” provided a critical platform for discussing the challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. ETMS 2024 brought together researchers, professionals, and industry leaders to explore topics such as advanced weapon systems, surveillance technologies, and strategic infrastructure management. The summit examined the societal and environmental impacts of defense technologies while fostering innovative strategies to address emerging...
Economics and the Left
Twenty-four economists discuss how they promote egalitarianism, democracy and ecological sanity through research, activism, and policy engagement Economics and the Left presents interviews with twenty-four leading progressive economists. All of these practitioners of the “dismal science” are dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. The result is a combustible brew of ideas and reflections on major historical events, including the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the global economy. Interviewed are: Michael Ash, Nelson Henrique Barbosa Filho, James K. Boyce, Ha-Joon Chang, Jane D’Arista, Diane Elson, Gerald Epstein, Nancy Folbre, James K. Galbraith, Teresa Ghilarducci, Jayati Ghosh, Ilene Grabel, Costas Lapavitsas, Zhongjin Li, William Milberg, Léonce Ndikumana, Ozlem Onaran, Robert Pollin, Malcolm Sawyer, Juliet Schor, Anwar Shaikh, William Spriggs, Fiona Tregenna and Thomas Weisskopf.
Women and Civil Society in Turkey
Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements have developed a new definition of civil society to include women. Second it draws attention to the role of women in the modernization of Turkey with special reference to the debate on the possibility of an indigenous feminist movement. Finally, it underlines the contribution of feminist, Islamic and Kurdish women’s movements in the transition from an ideologically constructed, uniform public sphere to a multi-public domain. Givi...
Yeni Paradigma
Artık zamanı gelmiş bir konu: YENİ PARADİGMA Yeni Paradigma: Kalkınmada, Sürdürülebilirlikte, Kentlerde, İnovasyonda, Tasarım Düşüncesinde, Ekonomide, Yönetimde, Pazarlamada, Kariyerde, Eğitimde, Sosyal Medyada, Gazetecilikte, Diplomaside, Politikada, Sivil Toplumda ve Sosyal Politikalarda. Optimist İdea’nın 2014 yılındaki konusu Yeni Paradigma. Farklı disiplinlerden 18 düşünür/yazar/uzman bir araya gelerek “nelerin değişmekte olduğuna” dair zihin açıcı tespitlerini bir kitapta topladılar. Yaşanan değişimin belirginleşmeye başlayan temel özelliklerine dair 18 ayrı kalemden 18 dünya resmi… YENİ PARADİGMA’NIN YAZAR VE KONULARI Zülfü Dicleli...
Political Machines
Technology assumes a remarkable importance in contemporary political life. Today, politicians and intellectuals extol the virtues of networking, interactivity and feedback, and stress the importance of new media and biotechnologies for economic development and political innovation. Measures of intellectual productivity and property play an increasingly critical part in assessments of the competitiveness of firms, universities and nation-states. At the same time, contemporary radical politics has come to raise questions about the political preoccupation with technical progress, while also developing a certain degree of technical sophistication itself.In a series of in-depth analyses of topics ranging from environmental protest to intellectual property law, and from interactive science centres to the European Union, this book interrogates the politics of the technological society. Critical of the form and intensity of the contemporary preoccupation with new technology, Political Machines opens up a space for thinking the relation between technical innovation and political inventiveness.>
The Employment Impact of Innovation
The diffusion of information and communication technologies is rapidly changing the structure of advanced economies, raising new problems of technological unemployment. The view that market forces can easily counterbalance the labour-saving impact of innovation is contrasted in this book with empirical findings on aggregate compensation effects and on the consequences of product, process and organizational innovation in industries and services. After examining several policy aspects, new employment-friendly economic and innovation policies are proposed.
State Building and Late Development
Why does state building sometimes promote economic growth and in other cases impede it? Through an analysis of political and economic development in four countries—Turkey, Syria, Korea, and Taiwan—this book explores the origins of political-economic institutions and the mechanisms connecting them to economic outcomes. David Waldner extends our understanding of the political underpinnings of economic development by examining the origins of political coalitions on which states and their institutions depend. He first provides a political model of institutional change to analyze how elites build either cross-class or narrow coalitions, and he examines how these arrangements shape specific in...
Strengthening Technological Capabilities
This book offers a review of ILO activities on technology reveals the challenges of endogenous capacity building in developing countries. The book covers a range of areas including technology policy assessment, evaluation of the impact of new technologies on employment, working conditions and working environment.
