The Sekondi Archives

1978 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 365-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Silver
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Western Regional ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mode Of Production

In the late 1950s, the National Archives of Ghana (NAG) began a decentralizaton programme which has progressed to the point where there is now a NAG regional depository in eight of the country's nine regions, the only exception so far being the Upper Region. Furthermore, unlike many of the efforts at bureaucratic decentralization in Ghana, which have been more de jure than de facto -- archival decentralization in Ghana is a reality. As a result, the historical researcher who limits his efforts to the Accra branch of the NAG is risking the loss of considerable richness of detail, as a recent trip to Sekondi made abundantly clear to me.Sekondi houses the Western Regional Branch of the NAG. The Western Region is, in many respects, one of Ghana's most interesting areas. Until relatively recently it was, at one and the same time, the major center of foreign business activity in the country, and one of the country's most backward and underdeveloped areas. While ironic, this juxtaposition is certainly not surprising. But more importantly, from the point of view of the researcher into Ghana's history, it affords the opportunity for a more detailed micro-level historical examination of, for instance, the relationship between “modernity” and “tradition,” or between the “capitalist mode of production” and the “pre-capitalist mode of production.” The Western Region has been almost an ideal type in this respect, and as a consequence is virtually a laboratory, not only for the historian, but also for the historically-minded sociologist, economist, and political scientist.

scholarly journals Quality of service in the Heineken supply chain, México: an empirical investigation in the west of Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Omar Alejandro PÉREZ-CRUZ ◽  
José de Jesús AMEZCUA-VIVAS ◽  
Johann MEJÍAS-BRITO ◽  
Jesús Francisco TEJEDA-CASTREJÓN
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Western Regional ◽  
The Relationship

The general objective of this work is to analyze the quality factors of the supply chain service in the western regional direction of the company Cervezas Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma - Heineken México. The analysis was framed in a model proposed by Gohain, Thambiah and Hong (2018) which measures six dimensions of service quality: the object, the process, the infrastructure, the interaction, the environment and social responsibility. A survey was applied as an instrument to collect the responses of active providers in the western region of Mexico. The results were estimated by using STATA 14 to evaluate the relationship between the proposed factors. The results highlight that the quality of the supply chain is influenced by the quality criteria of the product, the process and the interaction. In this way, this research contributes with relevant information that allows them to make quick and practical decisions to use those responsible for the company's supply chain, as well as other economic sectors.

scholarly journals Empresas recuperadas por trabalhadores no Brasil e na Argentina

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Flávio Chedid Henriques ◽  
Michel Jean-Marie Thiollent
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mode Of Production

Este artigo é resultado de uma tese de doutorado que teve como objetivo identificar inovações no campo da organização do trabalho produzidas pelas experiências de empresas recuperadas por trabalhadores no Brasil e na Argentina. A tese central defendida é a de que as limitações impostas pela hegemonia do modo de produção capitalista não encerram a possibilidade de construção de novas relações sociais de produção. Os cinco estudos de caso realizados e a experiência de levantamentos da totalidade das experiências de empresas recuperadas nos dois países forneceram elementos que permitiram problematizar em vários aspectos a organização capitalista do trabalho e, por meio de uma crítica prática, como sugere Rebón (2007), propiciaram a reflexão sobre a possibilidade de superação do modelo hegemônico, que não passa apenas pela inovação no interior das organizações, mas também da relação dessas empresas com seus territórios.Palavras-chave: empresas recuperadas por trabalhadores; organização do trabalho; autogestão; estudos organizacionais críticos. Abstract: This article is the result of a doctoral thesis which aims to identify innovations in the field of labour organization produced by the experiences of companies recovered by workers in Brazil and Argentina. The central thesis defended is that the limitations imposed by the hegemony of the capitalist mode of production do not dismiss the possibility of building new social relations of production. The five case studies and the experience with surveys of all experiences recuperated enterprises in the two countries provided information that allowed questioning in several respects the capitalist organization of work and, through a critical practice, as suggested Rebón (2007), propitiated reflection on the possibility of overcoming the hegemonic model, it is not only about innovation within organizations, but also the relationship of these companies with their territories. Keywords: companies recovered by workers; work organization; workers self-management; critical management studies.

scholarly journals Capitalismo e destruição ambiental

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Nildo Viana
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mode Of Production

ResumoO presente artigo aborda a relação entre capitalismo e destruição ambiental, numa perspectiva crítica. O objetivo foi demonstrar a relação específica entre ser humano e natureza instituída na sociedade capitalista e seus efeitos destrutivos, relação com as demais contradições do capitalismo e as possibilidades futuras. O modo de produção capitalista é o elemento fundamental para compreender o processo de destruição ambiental na sociedade moderna, especialmente em sua dinâmica marcada pela reprodução ampliada do capital. As ideologias que visam resolver o problema ambiental dentro do capitalismo são descartadas por causa dessa característica específica do capitalismo. A destruição ambiental é uma das contradições do capitalismo e pode se tornar a mais importante, promovendo o fim do capitalismo ou da humanidade. No entanto, o fim do capitalismo não ocorre sem ação humana e é essa que determina o que o substituirá. Isso coloca em evidência nossa responsabilidade na definição do futuro da humanidade.Palavras-chave: modo de produção capitalista, meio ambiente, destruição ambiental, tendências. AbstractThis article discusses the relationship between capitalism and environmental destruction, a critical perspective. The objective was to demonstrate the specific relationship between human beings and nature established in capitalist society and its destructive effects, compared with other contradictions of capitalism and the future possibilities. The capitalist mode of production is the key element to understand the process of environmental destruction in modern society, especially in its dynamic marked by the reproduction of capital. Ideologies aimed at solving the environmental problem within capitalism are discarded because of this specific characteristic of capitalism. Environmental destruction is one of the contradictions of capitalism and can become the most important, promoting the end of capitalism or of humanity. However, the end of capitalism is not without human action and it is this that determines what will replace it. This highlights our responsibility in shaping the future of humanity.Keywords: capitalist mode of production, environment, environmental destruction, trends. ResumenEn este artículo se analiza la relación entre el capitalismo y la destrucción ambiental, una perspectiva crítica. El objetivo era demostrar la relación específica entre los seres humanos y la naturaleza establecida en la sociedad capitalista y sus efectos destructivos, en comparación con otras contradicciones del capitalismo y las posibilidades futuras.El modo de producción capitalista es el elemento clave para entender el proceso de destrucción del medio ambiente en la sociedad moderna, sobre todo en su dinámica marcada por la reproducción del capital. Las ideologías orientadas a resolver el problema del medio ambiente dentro del capitalismo son descartados debido a esta característica específica del capitalismo. La destrucción del medio ambiente es una de las contradicciones del capitalismo y puede convertirse en el más importante, promover el fin del capitalismo o de la humanidad. Sin embargo, el fin del capitalismo no está libre de la acción humana y esto es lo que determina lo que va a reemplazarlo. Esto pone de relieve nuestra responsabilidad en la formación del futuro de la humanidad.Palabras-clave: modo de producción capitalista, medio ambiente, destrucción ambiental, tendencias. 

scholarly journals MAIS UM PARA O LATTES! PARA QUEM ESCREVEMOS, AFINAL?

polemica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 001-012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fausto Dos Santos Amaral Filho
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Capitalist Mode ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Present Text ◽  
Mode Of Production ◽  
The Way

Resumo: A partir do espanto causado pelo título dado por uma pesquisadora a uma publicação sua no facebook – Mais um para o Lattes! –, na qual comemorava o fato de ter publicado um capítulo em uma coletânea, o presente artigo procura refletir não apenas sobre a importância da leitura para a efetividade do escrito publicado, mas, sobretudo, busca entender a maneira pela qual o produtivismo acadêmico, claramente inspirado no modo de produção capitalista, vinculado ao sistema de avaliação dos Programas de Pós-graduação – que, por sua vez, privilegia o modelo quantificador das ciências objetificadoras –, acaba impondo aos pesquisadores uma visão deturpada das práticas acadêmicas, principalmente na área das ciências humanas e sociais que, a não ser por um desvio dos seus fundamentos, conseguem se enquadrar no modelo imposto.Palavras-chave: Currículo Lattes. Produtivismo acadêmico. Avaliação. Abstract: Starting from the fright caused by the title chosen by a researcher in a facebook publication – One more to Lattes! –, when celebrating the fact of having published a chapter in a Compilation, the present text looks for thinking not only about reading relevance of the published article. Also, the text seeks for understanding the way academic productivism, which is inspired in capitalist mode of production and linked to evaluation system of post-graduation programs. These, by their turn, emphasize the quantifier model of objective sciences and impose a wrong point of view of academical practices, specially in Human and Social Sciences. Human and Social Sciences, unless through a deviation of their foundation, get to be framed to the imposed model.Keywords: Currículo Lattes. Academial productivism. Evaluation.

scholarly journals Features correlations of the sizes of molars with cephalometric indicators of men of the western region of Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
V.I. Gunas ◽  
O.O. Kotsyura ◽  
L.V. Babych ◽  
Yu.G. Shevchuk ◽  
O.V. Cherkasova
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Average Strength ◽  
Dental Services ◽  
Healthy Men ◽  
Computed Tomographic ◽  
Facial Skull ◽  
Medium Strength ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
The Relationship

Expanding the theoretical knowledge of medical anthropology in the modern field of dental services is one of the main drivers of progress in the orthodontic field. The only way to successfully develop the relationship of these disciplines is to create and fill a database of normative data and search for correlations between various, both obviously related and, at first glance, completely unrelated structures of the human body. The purpose of the study was to determine the features of the relationship between the linear dimensions of molars with the cephalometric parameters of practically healthy men of the first mature age, residents of the western region of Ukraine. Cone-beam computed tomography was performed in 36 practically healthy men of the first mature age, residents of the western region of Ukraine (from Rivne, Volyn, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions) followed by odontometry research and cephalometry. Statistical processing of the results was performed in the license package “Statistica 6.1” using non-parametric Spearman’s statistics. As a result of quantitative analysis of reliable and average strength of unreliable correlations of linear computed tomographic sizes of molars with cephalometric indicators and indices of practically healthy men of the western region of Ukraine it is established that the percentage, mainly direct, reliable and average strength of unreliable correlations of linear sizes of molars with cephalometric indices and with indicators of the cerebral or facial skull is almost no different. The largest number of reliable and medium-strength unreliable correlations of linear molars sizes with cranial indices was found with vestibular-lingual and mesio-distal tooth sizes (20.5% with upper molars and 25.0% with lower molars). The highest number of reliable and medium-strength unreliable correlations of linear molars sizes with facial skull indices was found for upper molars with tooth height, crowns and root length (10.8%) and vestibular-lingual and mesio-distal dimensions (12.8%), and for lower molars – only with vestibular-lingual and mesio-distal dimensions (19.4%). The obtained data testify to the prospects of the chosen scientific direction of research, which will further improve the work of physicians in various fields of medicine, including preventive.

scholarly journals INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Marković ◽  
◽  
Ivana Marjanović ◽  
Žarko Rađenović ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Mode Of Production

The rapid development of individual countries often has unprecedented environmental consequences. This is why more and more innovations are being used to ensure, in addition to economic development, the preservation of environmental quality. In addition to transport and industry, agriculture is an important environmental factor. There are many studies in the literature dealing with the relationship between agricultural development and sustainable development, as well as the study of the economic and social role of innovation in this field. The paper aims to examine the relationships between innovation in agriculture and sustainable development, based on extensive scientific literature. The results of the research show that agriculture, such as organic agriculture, is one of the interesting solutions for maintaining the principles of sustainable development. Such an innovation, concerning the mode of production in agriculture, can have many positive benefits for sustainable development from both an economic and environmental point of view.

scholarly journals Foreign Trade Structure, Opening Degree and Economic Growth in Western China

Economies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Sun ◽  
Luo ◽  
Kang ◽  
Jia
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Inhibitory Effect ◽  
Western China ◽  
Local Characteristic ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Trade Structure ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
The Relationship

This paper presents an interactive study on the relationship between the foreign trade structure, opening degree and economic growth of the provinces in western China (except Tibet). It shows that the export of primary products and labor-intensive products has a positive impact on the external development of the western region, while the export of capital and technology-intensive products has a smaller inhibitory effect on it. At the same time, the system GMM model shows that the opening degree of the western region has a positive effect on economic growth. After including the foreign trade structure interaction item, this result has not changed, and on the basis of opening up to the outside world, the export of labor-intensive products and capital-intensive products plays a significant role in promoting economic development. Therefore, this paper holds that the western region should optimize its foreign trade structure, continue to promote the construction of foreign trade demonstration, and give priority to the development of local characteristic industries to promote economic growth.

Beyond the Civilizational Crisis: On Determinism

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Marek Hrubec ◽  
Martin Brabec
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mode Of Production

AbstractThis article analyzes crisis as part of deeper trends determined in historical development from the perspective of two important theoretical streams: firstly, Analytical Marxism, and secondly, the Critical Theory of Society (the Frankfurt School). It shows both general determinants of historical development and pathological determinants of historical development. Examining Analytical Marxism and its theory of technological determinism, the article explains crisis in respect of situations of systemic changes mainly from the perspective of the relationship between forces of production and relations of production. Examining the Critical Theory, the article clarifies the role of the pathological determinants of instrumental rationality in human history in relation to efforts at human emancipation. In the article, crisis is seen as the superficial appearance of the historical developmental trends where there are inherent permanent tendencies to crisis. Crisis is a temporary eruption of the deeper contradictory development of the capitalist mode of production and other systems within the history of human civilization. The article discusses an issue of determinism as a necessary framework for the interpretation of crisis, and offers an interpretation of the preconditions of crisis not only from the economic point of view, but also, on a deeper level, in a civilizational sense.

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