Forces of Labor or Statistical Aspects of Quality Control

Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870

Author: Beverly J Silver

Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century.

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Statistical Aspects of Quality Control

Author: Derman Cyrus

On-line and off-line quality control are the two methods used to discern a products reliability of quality. Though they are disparate techniques, both methods are used to achieve the same result. This introductory textbook integrates the two techniques to present a wide coverage of statistical methods of quality control. The text is compact, stressing the key ideas and concepts rather than trying to cover each method in complete depth. Statistical Aspects of Quality Control is an excellent starting point for a student interested in learning more about the field of statistical quality control. References and suggested readings are included at the end of each chapter.

* Presents statistical quality control in a compact fashion that stresses key ideas and concepts
* Uses the concept of Average Run Length to compare the different control charts, such as Shewhart, moving average, and cusum
* Introduces the Taguchi approach to quality design
* Includes information on acceptance sampling
* Concludes each chapter with final comments, references, and examples to illustrate the methods discussed

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A introductory textbook, focusing on the central concepts rather than covering a wide range of topics. Integrates on-line quality control that stresses the control charts and acceptance sampling procedures to monitor existing processes, with off-line quality control that is concerned with experimental techniques to design reliability into a product. For both types, emphasizes the loss of quality that results anytime a product varies from the optimal design. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction
Ch. 2	Elements of Probability
Ch. 3	Statistical Inference
Ch. 4	Off-Line Quality Control
Ch. 5	Shewhart Control Charts
Ch. 6	More General Control Charts
Ch. 7	Sampling Inspection by Attributes
Ch. 8	Sampling Inspection by Variables - A Loss Function Approach
	Appendix of Tables
	Index