industrialization

Examples of industrialization in the following topics:

• Organization and Ownership of the Media

  • Contemporary research demonstrates increasing levels of consolidation, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms.
  • Before that, there was a period in which Edison monopolized the industry.
  • There are also some large-scale owners in an industry that are not the causes of monopoly or oligopoly.
  • However, the radio broadcasting industry in the United States and elsewhere can be regarded as oligopolistic regardless of the existence of such a player.
  • Concentration of ownership is often found in these industries.

• Deregulation

  • The Financial Times Lexicon states that deregulation, in the sense of a substantial easing of government restrictions on industry, is normally justified in order to promote competition.
  • Many industries in the United States became regulated by the federal government in the late 19th and early 20th century.
  • This occurred with the railroad industry following the era of the so-called "robber barons".
  • One phenomenon that encouraged deregulation was the fact that regulated industries often controlled the government regulatory agencies and used them to serve the industries' interests.
  • Even when regulatory bodies started out functioning independently, a process known as regulatory capture often saw industry interests come to dominate those of the consumer.

• The Growth of Bureaucracy

  • The growth of bureaucratization developed due to the rapid industrialization that United States was facing during the 19th century.
  • As Weber understood, particularly during the industrial revolution of the late 19th century, society was being driven by the passage of rational ideas into culture that in turn transformed society into an increasingly bureaucratic entity.
  • As society became more populated and industrialized, department and federal agencies develop to regulate the flow and integration of people of growing cities.
  • Black Student Welders Work in a machine shop course taught at the Chicago opportunities industrialization center at a former grade school in the heart of the Cabrini-Green Housing Project on Chicago's near north side.

• Interest Groups vs. Political Parties

  • It was financed mainly by large corporations and industrial interests.
  • It was financed mainly by large corporations and industrial interests .
  • Bush's re-election campaign in 2004 was largely funded by special interest groups such as financial banks and large industrial corporations.

• Types of Media

  • Theories on the success of such companies note a reliance on certain policies of the American federal government as well as a natural tendency to produce monopolies in the industry.
  • Evaluate the claim that press freedom is compromised by increasing consolidation in the media industry

• The Impact of Court Decisions

  • In competitive industries with well-informed consumers, privatization consistently improves efficiency.
  • The more competitive the industry, the greater the improvement in output, profitability and efficiency.

• The Nineteenth Century

  • Associated with industrialism and capitalism, the 19th century looms large in the history of economic policy and economic thought.
  • As the century most associated with industrialization and capitalism in the West, the 19th century looms large in the history of economic policy and economic thought.
  • The socialist movement that he joined had emerged in response to the conditions of people in the new industrial era and the classical economics which accompanied it.

• Print Media

  • The future of newspapers in countries with easy access to the Internet has been widely debated as the industry has faced soaring newsprint prices, slumping ad sales, the loss of much classified advertising, and precipitous drops in circulation.
  • In recent years the number of newspapers slated for closure, bankruptcy or severe cutbacks has risen—especially in the United States, where the industry has shed a fifth of its journalists since 2001.
  • The debate has become more urgent lately, as a deepening recession has shaved profits, and as once-explosive growth in newspaper web revenues has leveled off, forestalling what the industry hoped would become an important source of its revenue.
  • At issue is whether the newspaper industry faces a cyclical trough, or whether new technology has rendered newspapers obsolete in their traditional format.

• Economic Prosperity

  • In the two hundred and thirty years since the independence of the United States, the country has grown to be a huge, integrated, industrialized economy that makes up nearly a quarter of the world economy.
  • Technological and industrial factors have also played a major role in the United States' economic prosperity .
  • The most serious began with the collapse of housing bubbles in California and Florida, along with the collapse of housing prices and the construction industry.
  • The United States has been able to grow into a world economic power in part due to the rapid advances of technology and industry.

• Incentives for Efficiency and Productivity

  • The Efficiency Movement was a major movement in the United States, Britain and other industrial nations in the early 20th century that sought to identify and eliminate waste in all areas of the economy and society and to develop and implement best practices.
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor, a mechanical engineer by training, is often credited with inventing scientific management and improving industrial efficiency.