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...what I had just done. On one side stood three shelves of books and a plastic bag full of field notes and collected articles: my raw material. Next to that lay a heap of notecards and a folder jammed with typescript drafts covered in edits and marginalia: my shopfloor assemblies. At the far end sat two neat stacks of the printed final copy, bound and totalized: the finished consumer good...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Thinking is Craftwork | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...Black Friday,” traditionally one of the biggest shopping days of the year in the United States, stores in Harvard Square expressed modest confidence in their sales this weekend, despite the absence of students over Thanksgiving break. While none witnessed the overnight lines or shopfloor brawls seen elsewhere in the country, many local businesses said yesterday they expected to equal or improve upon their performances last year. And the varying successes of Harvard Square businesses point to trends in consumption and tourism in Cambridge over the holiday weekend, with growth more pronounced at larger stores and branches...

Author: By John R. Macartney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shops Enjoy Holiday Boost | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

There will be a major political fight over the nature of planning which will shape his country for many decades. We simply can't have participatory planning without major structural changes in the way people relate to each other in the workplace-- a thorough democratization on the shopfloor, at the plant level, and between management and labor. I don't think these changes will be completed--I don't know if they will be started within this decade. But you can't have planning in a cultural or social vacuum...

Author: By Compiled SUSAN Chira, Amy B. Mcintosh, and Richard Strasser., S | Title: The Dismal Science? | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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