New Industrial Revolution and Electronics

The New Industrial Revolution

The New Industrial Revolution

This article outlines a new framework for understanding the current period of global restructuring, focusing on the relationship between technological change and organizational change. After reviewing the major approaches in the debate over future pathways to industrialization, a new perspective for understanding the ‘new industrial revolution’ is presented. At the core of this revolution is th...

Pest control: a new industrial revolution.

Industries such as manufacturing, mining, and transportation have been experiencing mechanization and automation for well over 100 years. Agriculture, in contrast, has lagged behind and only in the last 30 years have these processes been adopted. Long considered a way of life rather than an industry, farming is now becoming as highly industrialized as the traditionally organized businesses. Pes...

The electronics revolution.

The Industrial Revolution, an important milestone in the development of civilization, marked the extension of man's muscle power by the harnessing of mechanical energy. Today, we in RCA are participating in an even more profound revolution, the Electronics Revolution, which marks the extension of man's brain power by the harnessing of the swift, obedient electron. The first phase of the Electro...

Editor's Introduction: the New Economic History and the Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution-a Useful Abstraction In the past years, there have been more and more voices that claim, to rephrase Coleman (1983), that the Industrial Revolution is "a concept too many." 2 The feeling is that the term is either too vague to be of any use at all or that it produces false connotations of abrupt change comparable in its suddenness to the French Revolution. The main int...