GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Geographical Distance, Scientific Management, Turbocharger
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The world has not come together politically, but it has technologically in communications and transport. Found within changed labour practices within a work place(e. g taylorism) Found in attempts to speed up connections among geographically separated sites of production: annihilation of space by time, reducing geographical distance by connecting locations. Harvey"s time-space compression : time-space compression is a trajectory built into the very structure of market economies. Post-modernism: present space-time compression a result of flexible accumulation (post-industrialism) replacing fordism, post-industrialism produces a particular form of cultural life and representation, post- Transportation and communications: transportation: the means for transferring physical objects, including people, from one place to another, communications the means for transferring information and knowledge form one person in one place to another person in a different place. Transportation: price changes: reduction in freight rates, rates for us railways fell 42, ocean going transportation rates fell 60%
