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Headwords J-Q
The editors welcome suggestions for additions to the headword list. These suggestions will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Available Entries
Japan Mail Line
Japanese Congress of Industrial Organizations
Japanese Employment System
Kaiping Mining Company
Kawasaki Heavy Industries
Leblanc Process
Mass Production
Maynard Operation Sequence Technique
Microwave
Mitsubishi
Mitsui
Nanotechnology
Nippon Electric Company
Nissan
Out sourcing
Paper Technologies
Paterson Silk Strike
pharmaceuticals
Portland cement
Portsmouth Block Mills
power plants
Precision Lathe
PRI
Printing Press, hand
Printing Press, steam
Printing, modern
Progressivism
Puffing Billy
Quality assurance and control
Reserved Entries
Jacquard, Joseph Marie
Jansky, Karl
Japan
Japan Railway Company
jet engine
Jones, Frederick
Jones, Mary Harris
Juran, Joseph Moses
Just-in-time Manufacturing
Kader Toy Factory Fire
Kalashnikov, Mikhail
Kaoru Ishikawa
Kay, John
Kelly, William
Kettering, Charles Franklin
Kevlar
Khalturin, Stephen
Knights of Labor
König, Friederich Gottlob
Kraft, James L.
Kropotkin, Peter
Krupp, Alfred
Krushchev, Nikita
La Reforma
labor riots
Labour Party
Labour Representation Committee
Laissez-Faire
Land, Edwin Herbert
laser
Latimer, Lewis Howard
Latin America
Lawrence Textile Strike
Laws of Technical Systems Evolution
Lee, Rev. William
Lena Gold Field Massacre (1912)
Lenin
Lenoir, Jean
Leo XIII
Lesage, Georges Luis
Lewis, John L.
liberation theology
Light Bulb
Lockout
Loewy, Raymond
Lomb, Henry
Lombe, John
Lowell Mills
Lowell, Francis Cabot
Lud, Ned
Luddites
Luxemburg, Rosa
Macadan, John
MacArthur, Douglas/(SCAP)
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Manchester Ship Canal
Manhattan Project
Mannesmann, Reinhard
Mao Zedong
Marx, Karl
Marxism
Match Girls Strike
Matzeliger, Jan
Maudslay, Henry
Maxim, Hiram
May Day
Mayo, Elton
McCarthy, Glenn
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
McNamara, Robert S.
Meiji Restoration
Meikle, Andrew
Melon, Andrew William
Mensheviks
Mercer, John
Mexican Revolution
Mexico
Michelin Brothers
microchip
microprocessors
mining
Minomura Rizaemon
Mittal Steel
Molly Maguires
Monier, Joseph
Monopoly
Moody, Paul
Morgan, John Pierpont
Morozovs (Russian Industrialist Family)
Morris, William
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Mushet, Robert
Müller, Alex
NAFTA
Napoleonic Wars
Nasmyth, James
nationalization
Nazism
neocolonial economy
Nestlé, Henri
New Deal
New Economic Policy (NEP)
New South
New Zaibatsu
Newcomen, Thomas
Nicolas Cugnot
Nobel, Alfred Berhard
nylon
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Okuma Shigenobu
Olds, Ransom Eli
open shop
Osaka Spinning Mill
Otis, Elisha Graves
Otto, Nicolaus August
Owen, Evelyn (Owen Machine Carbine)
Owen, Robert
Owens, Michael J.
Parkes, Alexander
Parsons, Charles
Patents
Paul, Lewis
perestroika
Perkin, William
Peronism
personal computers
Petroleum
Philips, Gerard
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Plekhanov, Georgii
polyester
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
Popular Front
positivism
Pouslen, Valdemar
Powderly, Terrence
power loom
proletarianization
Protectionism
Protestant Work Ethic
Public Health Acts
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pullman, George Mortimer