The term Anti-Americanism represents a consistent hostility towards the government, culture, or people of the United States of America. Anti-Americanism is often described as a phenomenon that is uniformly hostile to the United States independently of the real attributes of the nation, and thus has characteristics of a distinct ideology. However, whether the term represents an actual ideological movement or merely a rough composite of stereotypes, prejudices and criticisms towards Americans or the United States is strongly debated.

• Anti-Americanism - Use of the term anti-Americanism
• Anti-Americanism - History
• Anti-Americanism - Degeneracy thesis
• Anti-Americanism - Romantic hostility
• Anti-Americanism - Racialism
• Anti-Americanism - Anti-technology and consumerism
• Anti-Americanism - Political hypocrisy
• Anti-Americanism - The Other
• Anti-Americanism - Modern political origins and public opinion
• Anti-Americanism - Criticisms of the United States
• Anti-Americanism - Criticisms of anti-Americanism
• Anti-Americanism - Notes

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Architectural history studies the evolution and history of architecture across the world through a consideration of various influences- artistic, cultural, political, economic and technological. In general, the question is one of relating meaning (intangible functions, purposes, symbols) with the built environment (material tables, windows, roofs, paths) through the necessities of life (food, work, communion etc.) within the historical context. Architectural history, like any other form of historical knowledge, is subject to the limit ...

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• Architectural history - Prehistoric architecture
• Architectural history - Historic architecture Dated Events
• Architectural history - Ancient architecture
• Architectural history - Western Architecture — Classical to Eclecticism
• Architectural history - Classical architecture
• Architectural history - Medieval architecture
• Architectural history - Italian Renaissance architecture
• Architectural history - Baroque architecture
• Architectural history - The Age of Enlightenment
• Architectural history - Consequences of Enlightenment
• Architectural history - Modern architecture and beyond
• Architectural history - Writing Tabula Rasa
• Architectural history - Postmodern architecture
• Architectural history - Critical Regionalism
• Architectural history - Regional architecture

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The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (French: Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe) is a Group in the European Parliament. It is composed of members from the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, European Democratic Party and assorted independents. Both European political parties continue to exist. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe is also a political group in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Eur ...

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• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - European Liberal Democrat and Reform ELDR party
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - Foundation
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - Program
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - Group Members
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - ALDE in PACE Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - Members of the ALDE PACE Group
• Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - External link

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The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) is an international treaty which sets down minimum standards for most forms of intellectual property regulation within all member countries of the WTO. Specifically, TRIPs deals with copyright and related rights (ie. rights of performers, producers of sound recordings and broadcasting organisations); geographical indications (including appellations of origin); industrial designs; integrated circuit layout-designs; patents (including the pr ...

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• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Background and history
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - The requirements of TRIPs
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Controversy
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Access to essential medicines
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Software and business method patents
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Use for enforcement of industrial espionage cases
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Post-TRIPs expansionism
• Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Panel reports

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Concern over the appauling conditions of workers was exposed by the muckrakers during the late 19th/early 20th centuries. The Progressive Era in the United States saw to the begining of the first attenion to and passing of labor laws, which would regulate unethical work force policies. The United Kingdom passed the Factory Act in the 19th century and continued to add to it to help quell the unfair procedures. These regulations helped to give rise and power to labor unions. Sweatshops have still proved a difficult issue to solve because its r ...

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Sweatshop, Sweatshop - History, Sweatshop - Anatomy, Sweatshop - Ethics, Sweatshop - The free-market defense, Sweatshop - The non-intervention defense, Sweatshop - Anti-sweatshop movement, Sweatshop - Pro-sweatshop movement, Sweatshop - Results

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War On Want is a campaigning charity based in London, England, which highlights the needs of poverty-stricken areas around the world, lobbying governments and international agencies to tackle problems, as well as raising public awareness of the concerns of developing nations while supporting organisations throughout the third world. War on Want tends to focus on the root causes of poverty rather than its effects, and places importance on enabl ...

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Sociocultural evolution(ism) is an umbrella term for theories of cultural evolution and social evolution, describing how cultures and societies have developed over time. Although such theories typically provide models for understanding the relationship between technologies, social structure, the values of a society, and how and why they change with time, they vary as to the extent to which the ...

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• Sociocultural evolution - Overview
• Sociocultural evolution - Classical social evolutionism
• Sociocultural evolution - Development
• Sociocultural evolution - Sociocultural evolutionism and the idea of progress
• Sociocultural evolution - Critique and impact on modern theories
• Sociocultural evolution - Modern theories
• Sociocultural evolution - Contemporary moral and political debates over sociocultural evolution
• Sociocultural evolution - Notes

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Cultural diversity is the variety of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. There is a general consensus among mainstream anthropologists that humans first emerged in Africa about two million years ago. Since then we have spread throughout the world, successfully adapting to widely differing conditions and to periodic cataclysmic changes in local and global climate. The many separate societies that emerged around the globe differed markedly from each ...

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Walden Bello (born 1945) is a left-wing author, academic, and political analyst. He is a professor of sociology and public administration at the University of the Philippines, as well as executive director of Focus on the Global South. Born in Manila, Philippines, he became a political activist following the coup d'etat by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. In 2003, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award; www.rightlivelihood.org describes him as "one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalisation, combining the roles of intellectual and activist."[1] Bello is also a fellow ...

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Liberalism is an ideology, or current of political thought, which strives to maximize liberty. [1] Liberalism seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on the power of government and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a free market economy that supports private enterprise, and a system of government that is transparent. This form of government favors liberal democracy with open and fair ...

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• Liberalism - The nature and origins of liberalism: an overview
• Liberalism - Etymology and historical usage
• Liberalism - Trends within liberalism
• Liberalism - Comparative influences
• Liberalism - Development of liberal thought
• Liberalism - Origins of liberal thought
• Liberalism - Revolutionary liberalism
• Liberalism - Disputes within liberalism
• Liberalism - Liberalism and the great depression
• Liberalism - Liberalism against totalitarianism
• Liberalism - Liberalism after World War II
• Liberalism - The impact of liberalism in the modern world
• Liberalism - Contemporary liberalism
• Liberalism - A general overview of political positions
• Liberalism - Political deviances
• Liberalism - Comparative critiques
• Liberalism - Liberal conservatism
• Liberalism - Neoliberalism
• Liberalism - Further reading on liberalism

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A Chinese surname, family name (Chinese: 姓; Hanyu Pinyin: xìng or clan name 氏; shì), is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among ethnic Chinese in overseas Chinese communities. The colloquial expression "the hundred surnames" (百姓 bǎi xìng) is use ...

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• Chinese surname - Origin of surnames
• Chinese surname - Distribution of surnames
• Chinese surname - Surnames at present
• Chinese surname - Usage
• Chinese surname - The sociological use of surnames
• Chinese surname - Differences between Xing and Shi

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BPL is an Indian electronics company. The acronym stands for "British Physical Laboratories". It deals with consumer electronics (such as referigerators and washing machines), mobile networks etc. BPL group - History. In 1963, BPL founder and Group Chairman TPG Nambiar began manufacturing hermetically sealed precision panel meters in Palakkad, Kerala, under the name of British Physical Laboratories. Having worked in the UK and USA, when he came back to India armed with a vision of pioneering the man ...

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• BPL group - History

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Some companies have bowed to public pressure to reduce their dependence on sweatshop labour and have reduced or ended this practice in their operations. Those often publicize the fact that their products are not made with sweatshop labour; a number of organizations publish lists of companies that pay their workers a living wage. New Balance, for instance, is notable for changing its policies after intense pressure from campus anti-sweatshop groups. The Gap, also, has been changing its policies, though Old Navy and Banana Republic have not. T ...

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Sweatshop, Sweatshop - History, Sweatshop - Anatomy, Sweatshop - Ethics, Sweatshop - The free-market defense, Sweatshop - The non-intervention defense, Sweatshop - Anti-sweatshop movement, Sweatshop - Pro-sweatshop movement, Sweatshop - Results

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A factory (previously manufactory) or manufacturing plant is a large industrial building where workers manufacture goods. Most modern factories have large warehouses or warehouse-like facilities that contain heavy equipment used for assembly line production. Archetypally, factories gather and concentrate resources -- workers, capital and plant. Factory - Word usage. Before becoming associated with large-scale manufacturing, the term factory might refer to: a foreign-based t ...

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• Factory - Word usage
• Factory - History of the factory
• Factory - Siting the factory
• Factory - Governing the factory

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Traditionally, criticism of Marx's law of value has been of three kinds: conceptual logical empirical The conceptual criticism concerns the concept of value itself. For Marx, value was an objective social characteristic of labour-products, exchanged in an economic community, given the physical reality that products took a definite amount of society's labour-time to produce. Critics however argue that economic value is something purely subjective, determined by personal preferences and ma ...

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Law of value, Law of value - Economic value as such, Law of value - Is it an equilibrium theory?, Law of value - Factors counteracting the law of value, Law of value - Law of value in capitalism, Law of value - Smith's hidden hand, Law of value - Modification of the law of value in the world market, Law of value - A comment by Marx on the law of value, Law of value - A comment by Frederick Engels on the law of value, Law of value - The law of value in non-capitalist societies, Law of value - Post-modern thinking about the topic, Law of value - Criticism, Law of value - A Californian perspective: Jim Devine on the LoV, Law of value - Steve Keen and the machine

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The Venice Arsenal provides the first example of a factory in the modern sense of the word. Founded in 1104 in Venice, Italy, several hundred years before the Industrial Revolution, it mass-produced ships on assembly lines using manufactured parts. The Venice Arsenal apparently produced nearly one ship every day and, at its height, employed 16,000 people. Apart from that, many historians regard Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory (established i ...

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Factory, Factory - Word usage, Factory - History of the factory, Factory - Siting the factory, Factory - Governing the factory

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The debate around euroscepticism has been a major political issue in the United Kingdom since the inception of the European Union (then the European Economic Community or EEC), and has not reduced significantly following UK membership of the Union. Euroscepticism - Eurosceptic views in the UK today. Many people in Britain feel poorly informed about the European Union. Partly because of this widespread unfamiliarity with the fundamentals of the organisation, there is a wariness of its institutions, processe ...

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Euroscepticism, Euroscepticism - Eurosceptic influences on European politics, Euroscepticism - Eurosceptic issues, Euroscepticism - Centralisation, Euroscepticism - Compromising sovereignty, Euroscepticism - Harmonising of justice and home affairs, Euroscepticism - Euroscepticism in France, Euroscepticism - 1970s, Euroscepticism - Recent events, Euroscepticism - Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom, Euroscepticism - Eurosceptic views in the UK today, Euroscepticism - Eurosceptics in UK political parties, Euroscepticism - Eurosceptic British press, Euroscepticism - Euroscepticism in Denmark, Euroscepticism - Euroscepticism in Central and Eastern Europe, Euroscepticism - Eurosceptics in the European Parliament, Euroscepticism - Terminology, Euroscepticism - Criticism of the European Union by non-Europeans

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Statistics may help to reveal some of the dimensions of the division of labour. This example concerns the USA. First, we can derive the basic employment categories in the USA in 2002 in approximate figures from BLS data, as follows (working our way down from the total population): American total resident population 288 million population (16+) 224 million economically active population 218 million total civilian non-institutional population (16+) 215 million population 16-65 year ...

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Division of labour, Division of labour - Plato, Division of labour - Xenophon, Division of labour - Sir William Petty, Division of labour - Adam Smith, Division of labour - Karl Marx, Division of labour - Durkheim, Division of labour - Von Mises and globalisation, Division of labour - Modern debates, Division of labour - US 2002 estimates for the division of labour, Division of labour - The global division of labour, Division of labour - Some useful sociological references

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Liberalism - Origins of liberal thought. The focus on "liberty" as an essential right of people within the polity has been repeatedly asserted throughout history. Mentioned above are the conflicts between the plebeians and patricians in ancient Rome and the struggles of Italian city states against the Papal States. The republics of Florence and Venice had forms of elections, the rule of law, and pursuit of free enterprise through much of the 1400s until domination by outside powers in the 16th century. The Dutch ...

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Liberalism, Liberalism - The nature and origins of liberalism, Liberalism - Etymology and historical usage, Liberalism - Trends within liberalism, Liberalism - Comparative influences, Liberalism - Development of liberal thought, Liberalism - Origins of liberal thought, Liberalism - Revolutionary liberalism, Liberalism - Disputes within liberalism, Liberalism - Liberalism and the great depression, Liberalism - Liberalism against totalitarianism, Liberalism - Liberalism after World War II, Liberalism - The impact of liberalism in the modern world, Liberalism - Contemporary liberalism, Liberalism - A general overview of political positions, Liberalism - Political deviances, Liberalism - Comparative critiques, Liberalism - Liberal conservatism, Liberalism - Liberal international relations theory, Liberalism - Neoliberalism, Liberalism - Further reading on liberalism

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The name Nando's comes from Fernando, the name of one of the founders of the chain. He and a friend bought a restaurant called Chickenland in Rosettenville, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. This became the first Nando's restaurant. [1] The restaurant incorporated influences by former Portuguese colonists from Mozambique, many of whom settled on the south-eastern side of Johannesburg. Nando's is sometimes still referred to as Nan ...

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Nando's, Nando's - History, Nando's - A global franchise from Africa

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