Volkswagen in the Amazon
Volkswagen in the Amazon

Author: Antoine Acker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108190731

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From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events.

Volkswagen in the Amazon
Volkswagen in the Amazon

Author: Antoine Acker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108190731

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From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. These limits were not only economic, with the core management of a multinational company engaged in the 'integration' of an extreme world periphery, but they were also legal and ethical, with the involvement of indentured labor and massive forest burning. Its physical limits were exposed by an unpredictable ecosystem refusing to submit to VW's technological arsenal. Antoine Acker reveals how the VW ranch, a major project supported by the Brazilian military dictatorship, was planned, negotiated, and eventually undone by the intervention of internationally connected actors and events.

Key Challenges And Opportunities For Quality, Sustainability And Innovation In The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Quality And Service Management In The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Sustainability And Value Co-creation
Key Challenges And Opportunities For Quality, Sustainability And Innovation In The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Quality And Service Management In The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Sustainability And Value Co-creation

Author: Su Mi Dahlgaard-park

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2020-12-23

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 9811230366

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How can companies survive and prosper in the new economic age of the 4th Industrial Revolution? This book collects a variety of cases and quality management strategies for companies to put in place in the face of Industry 4.0. It argues that organizations that practice good quality management throughout the whole organization, and focus on satisfying their customers, employees and other stakeholders better than their competitors, are well equipped with the necessary capabilities to survive. It is a must read book for academicians, practitioners, managers and students interested in learning about the quality management philosophy, principles, tools and methods to be used in building a sustainable future where the challenges of the 4th Industrial Revolution — Industry 4.0 —are regarded and used as opportunities for survival and further growth.

Underdeveloping the Amazon
Underdeveloping the Amazon

Author: Stephen G. Bunker

Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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Underdeveloping the Amazon shows how different extractive economies have periodically enriched various dominant classes but progressively impoverished the entire region by disrupting both the Amazon Basin's ecology and human communities. Contending that traditional models of development based almost exclusively on the European and American experience of industrial production cannot apply to a regional economy founded on extraction, Stephen G. Bunker proposes a new model based on the use and depletion of energy values in natural resources as the key to understanding the disruptive forces at work in the Basin.

ISLA
ISLA

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1995-09

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13:

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Clippings of Latin American political, social and economic news from various English language newspapers.

Amazon
Amazon

Author: Brian Kelly

Publisher: Henry Holt

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780030036682

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"Authors Kelly and London combine adventure with the most diligent and penetrating research ever attempted in an effort to anticipate the fate of the Amazon. Their story is told partly through the voices of the people who live and profit there and partly through their own testimony to land wars, gold rushes and industrial development unchecked by ecological research and only barely controlled by law."--amazon.com.