occupied by workers whose hands are ’gloved with a pale corpse coloured rubber’. Everything is mechanised and emotionless. The values of the Weimar Republic set the doctrine of the film in which visual forms reveal the ironic mastery of machine and industrialisation over man. Lang uses a montage of machines cross cut with the symbol of a mechanical clock ticking to midnight to emphasise the political and social chaos in his society. Additional cuts of steam vents signify the underlying pressures that plagued
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Contributions to Indian Sociology http://cis.sagepub.com/ The social and ecological effects of industrialisation in a tribal region: The case of the Rourkela Steel Plant Rajkishor Meher Contributions to Indian Sociology 2003 37: 429 DOI: 10.1177/006996670303700302 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cis.sagepub.com/content/37/3/429 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Contributions to Indian Sociology can be found
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The causes of acid rain are because of the emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere. This is a result of pollution; sulphur dioxide primarily the result of industrialisation and coal fired power stations‚ and nitrogen oxides produced mainly due to car exhaust fumes. These either form wet or dry deposition‚ and the effects we can see today. It could be argued that once that the human race has used up all of the planets coal reserves‚ the problem of acid rain would disappear
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the Russian population and way of life. One may argue that Stalin’s aims were clear. He had launched the so-called revolution from above’ in November 1927‚ which had laid down two distinct aims for soviet domestic policy. These were rapid industrialisation of Russia and the collectivisation of agriculture. Stalin‚ it may be argued‚ had wished to erase the traces of capitalism resulting from the New Economic Policy and instead wished to transform Russia as quickly as possible. He had wished for
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However‚ over a period of time the benefits gained during this innovative era‚ population boom‚ urbanisation and industrialisation and the political improvements did indeed have a helpful effect on the development of Australian colonies. As reported in the Quarterly Review in 1860‚ ‘A vast continent‚ long regarded only as a convict prison and an abode of one of the lowest
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Which theories or theories of industrial conflict‚ if any‚ can best explain the state of industrial conflict in Singapore? Justify your answer. This essay is based on the assumption that Singapore’s industrial relations tend to be pluralistic in nature. The pluralistic approach to employment relations as defined by Bray‚ Waring and Cooper (2011) is that the employment relationship contains a potential to conflict. Hence‚ the question is the extent of industrial conflict in Singapore and which
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Essay on Modernisation by Neha Pansare Essay on Modernisation – The term modernisation “does not denote any philosophy or movement‚ but it only symbolises a process of change. In fact‚ “Modernisation” is understood as a process which indicates the adoption of the modern ways of life and values’”. The term was being used previously to refer only “to change in economy and its related effect on social values and practices”. It was also described as a process that changed the society‚ from primarily
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cultural structures. (Eisenstadt 1966‚ pg.1) Modernisation theorists are concerned with economic growth within societies. Mechanisation or industrialisations are key elements in the process of economic growth. Modernisation theorists study the social‚ political and cultural consequences of economic growth and the circumstances that are Important for industrialisation and economic growth to occur. From my reading of the theories I would partly agree and also partly disagree with the statement that “development
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Dickens is concerned with those still waiting for improvements and raises key moral and social questions in his writing‚ mainly focusing upon the need for schooling‚ the cruelty to and corruption of children‚ the problems arising from rapid industrialisation and the problems created by emphasis on social class and newly acquired wealth. All of which can be seen in Hard Times. Dickens was‚ however criticised in his time. Gissing said that he “did not know the North of England” and that the character
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The Liberal Government’s major issue following unification was Italy’s economic progress due to various problems. The economic situation in Italy after Unification was lacking modern communications such as roads due to a limited degree of industrialisation. This was a huge problem for the Liberal’s to solve because it meant that Italy was industrially declined in comparison to most of Europe. As of this decline‚ the Liberal’s tried to put an end to the Economic backwardness by increasing industrial
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