1) Describe the reasons the article gives for K’Nex deciding to manufacture in t
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1) Describe the reasons the article gives for K’Nex deciding to manufacture in the U.S.?
2) Describe the impact manufacturing has on a local community. Describe both the positive and negative influences.
3) What market conditions must exist for a manufacturer to successfully locate a manufacturing facility domestically? Describe the customer base, costs base, transportation infrastructure, etc.
4) What costs are directly related to the facility location? What costs are indirectly related to facility location? What are the additional costs of moving an operation? How would a manager determine the breakeven point for moving a company?
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2. In addition to the workload and demand for more workers came the demand and opportunity for women to work outside of the home in areas other than teaching and nursing. Of course, along with all that opportunity came poor working conditions and the need for Unions who would help regulate such conditions which were rebelled against in America just as they were decades before in Europe by social critics like Dickens.
Great list by brettd. I'd like to add one more issue to the discussion. The Industrial Revolution changed the concept of work in America on several levels. First, as productivity advanced, so did the need for more workers and more work hours. More people entered the workforce than ever before, actually causing a nationwide shift in polulation from the rural to the more urban areas, where the jobs were. Working long hours (the abuses which were mentioned above and later alleviated to a large degree by unions) became the norm for non-agricultural workers and would set the precedent for the industrious work ethic of today's work force. Second, as people had more money to spend and more products to buy, the roots of materialism were planted. The kind of "live to work, work to live" attitude for which so much of the world berates us (and which the Transcendentalists denounced in favor of "simplicity) was born.
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