Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven. Among them, she became a Catholic and lived like any other young girl in ...the tribe. At age twelve, she was enrolled at a French-Canadian Ursuline convent, where she would spend the rest of her life, eventually becoming the order's only foreign-born mother superior. Among these three major cultures of colonial North America, Wheelwright's life was exceptional: border-crossing, multilingual, and multicultural. This meticulously researched book discovers her life through the communities of girls and women around her: the free and enslaved women who raised her in Wells, Maine; the Wabanaki women who cared for her, catechized her, and taught her to work as an Indian girl; the French-Canadian and Native girls who were her classmates in the Ursuline school; and the Ursuline nuns who led her to a religious life.
The wheelwright Bian story in chapter 13 of the Zhuangzi is generally read in terms of the inexpressibility of skill. Connections with other Zhuangzi passages on skill and language skepticism readily ...suggest themselves, and this is indeed the direction in which the story has been developed and contextualized in the scholarship. In this paper, we take an alternative approach. Prompted by the observation that the status of books is a topic not only in the wheelwright story but also in three other sections of chapter 13, we attempt to read the story in the context of its chapter. The three main parts of the paper correspond to questions regarding books suggested in the wheelwright story: questions pertaining to the function of books, to the reason why books are criticized, and to what is absent from books. In addressing these issues, we will draw on a variety of clues present in chapter 13. The picture that will emerge is one in which the wheelwright story is seen as part of a political polemic. To the extent th
This article makes the case for a centenary restoration of George Sturt's classic study of British vernacular craft at the end of the nineteenth century, The Wheelwright's Shop (1923). It considers ...how the craft knowledge Sturt describes relates to his other craft - writing. It documents the book's changing relevance to readers a century after publication. Approached by way of contemporary ideas about environmental sustainability, material culture, and ecological psychology, Sturt's book deserves renewed attention from twenty-first century readerships.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship of strategic manufacturing effectiveness utilizing the four-stage model of Hayes and Wheelwright (H-W) with overall performance of ...manufacturing, market alignment and production competence (PC). In addition, it attempts to understand the relationship of strategic manufacturing effectiveness with manufacturing capability development modes, strategic groups of companies and the nature of improvement programs being employed.
Design/methodology/approach
Structured questionnaire was used to capture data from manufacturing organizations. Responses from managers of 47 Indian manufacturing companies were used to test the seven propositions that were developed to examine the paradigms of manufacturing competence.
Findings
The analysis revealed that the strategic manufacturing effectiveness of manufacturing companies based on H-W’s four-stage model has significant positive correlation with the overall performance of manufacturing and PC of the company. Further, the analysis substantiated the relationship of strategic manufacturing effectiveness with capability development process and the nature of improvement programs.
Research limitations/implications
This exploratory study is based on a small sample of manufacturing companies with diversity and hence it may not be representative of all industry sectors. Second, it has used several scales for measuring the relevant constructs which themselves are not proven, hence, the findings should be taken with caution.
Originality/value
This is an initial research focussing on the relationships among different elements of manufacturing competence such as manufacturing capabilities, PC, manufacturing capability development mode and overall performance of manufacturing with strategic manufacturing effectiveness using H-W model. H-W model was primarily proposed as an audit tool for managers, was hitherto not adequately studied in relation to other paradigms of manufacturing competence.
Heavenly merchandize Valeri, Mark R
2010., 20100701, 2010, 2010-07-01, 20100101
eBook
Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, it views commerce ...through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of profound transitions in the puritan understanding of discipline, providence, and the meaning of New England.
Purpose - The four stage model of Hayes and Wheelwright (H-W) describing the strategic role of manufacturing function is widely accepted in the literature. However, there is little research that has ...examined the underlying factors of the H-W model. This paper aims to fill this research gap by developing an instrument for measuring factors of strategic manufacturing effectiveness of a company based on the H-W model.Design methodology approach - The general principle of designing an instrument is followed in this paper. Attributes of strategic manufacturing effectiveness are identified from critical analysis of the original text of Wheelwright and Hayes, and Chase and Hayes. Then these attributes are grouped into four factors: catalysts of manufacturing initiatives; proactiveness of manufacturing function; attitude of top management towards manufacturing; and nature of manufacturing initiatives. Question for each attribute along continuum of four stages in the H-W model is developed. The reliability and validity of the instrument are assessed through responses obtained from managers of 28 manufacturing units.Findings - The empirical evidence supports that the proposed instrument has quite good reliability (Cronbach's α for different factors in the range of 0.575 to 0.705) and validity (multiple correlation coefficient between factors and manufacturing performance of 0.801).Practical implications - This instrument can be used to position the companies along the continuum of four stages. Also, this can help managers assess the strengths and weaknesses in manufacturing for making the improvements.Originality value - This study is one of its kind which focuses on the development of an instrument to assess the strategic role of manufacturing based on the H-W model.
In this paper, Jane Hollister Wheelwright's nephew, C. Doyle Hollister, synthesizes the central themes of psyche and nature posited by Jane and her daughter, Lynda Wheelwright Schmidt. Six themes are ...addressed: the process and experience of merging with nature, nature and the child psyche, the realm of the Other and the Big Something, the experience of the Wild Thing in a Jungian context, and the dynamic of opposites within physical nature and within Jung's transcendent Self. This paper was presented at Pacifica Graduate Institute on November 11, 2011, as part of a lecture series on Jane Hollister Wheelwright sponsored by the Opus Archives.
A Common Life Wheelwright, Betty Coon
Jung journal,
01/2010, Letnik:
4, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
First-generation Jungian analyst, Jane Hollister Wheelwright (1905-2004) found the transition into young adulthood challenging. During her formative years, she lived in the coastal wilderness of the ...Hollister Ranch in Santa Barbara County, California. The Hollister Ranch allowed Wheelwright freedoms unusual for women of her time and shaped her psyche. When she reached marriageable age, Wheelwright was expected to conform to the societal norms for a young woman of her era, norms that were too constraining for Wheelwright and did not affirm her values and experiences. Wheelwright was caught between the primitive values of her early years and the civilized values of the world she was expected to enter. After her freshman year at Bryn Mawr College, Wheelwright searched for a life path that would allow her to be herself. At this difficult time, her uncle, muckraking American journalist, Lincoln Steffens, mentored Wheelwright. He affirmed her gifts and brought her into the sophisticated world of the American expatriate in Europe in the mid-1920s. Wheelwright believed that her uncle Steffens had rescued her, and she credited Steffens and C. G. Jung with freeing her to be herself.
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