(Solved by Humans)-Discuss three factors that led to the shift within manufacturing

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1. Discuss three factors that led to the shift within manufacturing industries from Fordism to flexible specialization since the 1970s. How do the films?Modern Times?and?Zoned for Slavery?help illustrate the difference between these two modes of organizing industrial production in the twentieth century? Thinking from the point of view of labour (workers), does the film?Super Market Slave Trail, and the recent discussions in the media about the shrimping industry in Thailand mark a departure from the labour arrangements shown in either of the first two films mentioned above? Discuss in what significant ways.?

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1. What makes the works of some social theorists from the 19^th?and early 20^th?centuries?most notably, that of?Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber and W.E.B. Dubois?still relevant for our times? Define one important concept associated with?each?of these theorists. Now discuss one of these concepts as it relates to the substance of at least one of the following films:?Modern Times; Eyes on the Prize; Zoned for Slavery, and?The Innocent Casualties of India's?Surrogacy?Industry?(https://www.youtube.com/watch?) ??

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1. How did the discourse of ?science? impact the discourse of ?race? from the late eighteenth century? Now discuss the ways in which colonialism and/or enslavement intersected with the discourse of scientific racism in each of the following texts: i) the film,?Africa: Caravans of Gold; ii)?the film,?Eyes on the Prize,?and iii) the book,?King Leopold?s Ghost.?