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Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	30%

Selected Abstracts

Women of Steel: Constructing and Contesting New Gendered Geographies of Work in the Australian Steel Industry

ANTIPODE, Issue 2 2000
Liza Tonkin
The article argues that although structuralist-inspired approaches to steel restructuring have provided significant insights and recognised the role of "labour" in sectoral change, such studies have predominantly equated labour politics with unionism, downplaying the impact of other forms of workers' politics. This has created a problematic disjunction between "real world" events and academic research, with ensuing issues for policy development and delivery. In response to this difficulty, the paper builds on Herod's concept of a labour geography to develop multiple labour geographies of power, an approach that describes different forms of workers' politics. To illustrate this approach, the paper presents female steelworkers' politics of restructuring. It details the Jobs for Women Campaign in Wollongong, Australia, a 1980s place-based initiative that sought to gain blue-collar employment for women in the local steelworks. The study demonstrates how female steelworkers developed restructuring politics addressing gender and employment discrimination, issues not normally associated with labour politics. The paper concludes that such workers' struggles need to be analysed as they affect restructuring impacts and processes. [source]

The Industrial Tribunals and Wage Determination in the Australian Iron and Steel Industry, 1921,38

AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 3 2000
Malcolm Abbott
It is believed in some quarters that the system of federal and state industrial tribunals in Australia has exercised a considerable impact on the determination of wages in Australia, making the average level of nominal wages more inflexible and wage differentials more equal in the interwar period. The purpose of this paper is to identify, through cross-country comparisons, the impact that the industrial tribunals had on the iron and steel industry labour market, an industry that played a crucial role in Australia's industrial development during the 1920s and 1930s. [source]

High Involvement Work Systems and Job Insecurity in the International Iron and Steel Industry

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Issue 1 2001
Nicolas Bacon
The different factors behind globalization and the emergence of high involvement work practices do not necessarily carry similar implications for labour. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of high involvement work systems upon workers in the steel industry. The authors present results from a series of cross-national sun>eys conducted in 1998 with 39 national trade unions from over 30 countries measuring issues such as job security, ownership changes, numerical flexibility, and union density. The findings are consistent with U.S. data reported by Osterman (1998) indicating that new work practices provide no defense against an environment of heightened Insecurity. Résumé Les différents facteurs qui encouragent la mondialisa-tion et le dévoloppement de nouvelles pratiques de travail, dites "high involvement" (travail en équipes, rotation des fonctions, plus grande autonomie des employés) n'entraînent pas nécessairement des consequences semblables pour la main d'oeuvre. Nous examinons dans cette étude les effets de ces pratiques "high involvement" sur les travailleurs métallurgiques. Les auteurs publient les résultas de sondages interna-tionaux effectués en 1998 auprès de 39 syndicats dans plus de 30 pays, permettant de mesurer la sécurité d'em-ploi, les changements de propriétaire, la flexibilité numérique et la concentration syndicate. Leurs résultats s'accordent avec des donnés provenant des E-U tels que dans Osterman (1988), et démontrent que ces nouvelles de travail ne sont pas une défense contre un environe-ment plus hostile que jamais. [source]

Numerical Calculations of Spray Roasting Reactors of the Steel Industry with Special Emphasis on Fe2O3 -Particle Formation

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (CET), Issue 10 2007
M. Beck
Abstract This work presents numerical calculations for the lay-out of spray roasting reactors for the steel industry. In these reactors, a pickling liquor based on water and HCl containing FeCl2 is regenerated in a combustor leading to the formation of Fe2O3 particles. For the lay-out of these reactors, detailed knowledge of the flow and temperature field, the associated gas phase reactions, and especially, of the formation of the Fe2O3 particles is required. An extended particle formation model is presented which is based on earlier work. Finally, results for an industrial spray roasting reactor are given showing the potential of the numerical tools developed for the improvement of the technical lay-out of such thermal reactors. [source]

Semmering and Koralm tunnels

GEOMECHANICS AND TUNNELLING, Issue 2 2010
Article first published online: 12 APR 2010
SIKA has been manufacturing rotor machines for spraying concrete for over half a century. In the first years, Aliva produced both, screw pumps and rotor machines, until the rotor machine finally replaced the screw pumps in the 1960s. Since then, Aliva rotor machines have been continuously improved and further developed. In 2010, the 100 year anniversary of SIKA AG, Aliva is presenting the newest generation of rotor machines , the AL , 267. In addition to supplying the construction industry, Aliva is also one of the leading suppliers of machines for pea gravel backfilling on TBMs and of converter spraying equipment for the steel industry (see report on p. 225). Seit über einem halben Jahrhundert befasst sich SIKA mit der Herstellung von Rotormaschinen für Spritzbeton. In den Anfangsjahren von Aliva wurden noch Schneckenpumpen und Rotormaschinen hergestellt, bis dann in den 1960er-Jahren die Rotormaschine die Schneckenpumpe endgültig ablöste. Seither wurden kontinuierlich Verbesserungen und Weiterentwicklungen an Aliva Rotormaschinen vorgenommen. In 2010, zum hundertjährigen Jubiläum der SIKA AG, kann Aliva die neuste Generation der Rotormaschinen , die AL 267 , vorstellen. Neben dem Unternehmensbereich der Bauindustrie ist Aliva auch einer der führenden Hersteller für Kieshinterfüllmaschinen auf TBM und von Konverterspritzanlagen für die Stahlindustrie (siehe Bericht auf S. 225). [source]

Molecular characterization of early colonizer bacteria from wastes in a steel plant

LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 4 2008
D.B. Freitas
Abstract Aims:, Forty-nine bacteria isolated from four newly-produced waste samples of a steel industry, which had a high content of CaO, MgO, Cr and P2O5, were characterized molecularly and phenotypically by susceptibility testing against heavy metals. Methods and Results:, Phylogenetic analysis using 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the isolates belonged to nine genera, Pseudomonas, Micrococcus, Acinetobacter, Bacillus, Dietzia, Kocuria, Diaphorobacter, Staphylococcus and Brevibacillus. Besides, some isolates could be affiliated to species: M. luteus, Ac. junii, Ac. schindleri, B. cereus, K. marina, D. nitroreducens and Staph. warneri. The bacteria that were characterized are taxonomically diverse, and Pseudomonas and Micrococcus predominated. Fingerprinting BOX-PCR revealed high genomic heterogeneity among the isolates. Among the heavy metal compounds Zn, Ni, Pb and Cu were least toxic to the bacterial isolates, whereas Ag inhibited all isolates at 0·001 mmol l,1. Conclusions:, Heterotrophic bacteria, affiliated with several phylogentic groups, were able to colonize different wastes of a steel industry. Significance and Impact of the Study:, This study extends our knowledge of the early colonizers bacteria populating siderurgic environments. Some of these bacteria could have potential for recycling siderurgic waste for steel production. [source]

EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION ON PRODUCTIVITY AND INDUSTRY GROWTH: A STUDY OF STEEL REFINING FURNACES,

THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, Issue 3 2008
TSUYOSHI NAKAMURA
This paper examines the impact of new technology on plant-level productivity in the Japanese steel industry during the 1950's and 1960's. We estimate the production function, considering the differences in technology between the refining furnaces owned by a plant. We find that a more productive plant was likely to adopt the new technology and that the adoption would be expected to occur immediately following the peak of the productivity level achieved with the old technology. The adoption of the new technology primarily accounted not only for the industry's productivity slowdown but also for the industry's remarkable growth. [source]

Environmental management and strategy in the face of regulatory intensity: radioactive contamination in the US steel industry

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, Issue 8 2008
Bruce Wayne Clemens
Abstract Recent business literature argues that several incentives drive firms to cooperate with government environmental regulators and regulation without pressure from the government. This study explores and tests such arguments using a metric called regulatory intensity. The study uses survey data from the radioactive scrap metal industry. The findings challenge the recent literature that ,going green pays'. The study found that strong government actions (regulatory intensity) are related to firm cooperation. Firms seem to adopt cooperative strategies when coerced to do so by the government. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment. [source]