machine

(noun)

the group that controls a political or similar organization.

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Examples of machine in the following topics:

  • Urban Politics

    • During the Gilded Age, politics were characterized by the "political machines."
    • One of the most well known machines was that of Tammany Hall in New York.
    • He explains how the machine worked:
    • Benefits and problems both resulted from the rule of political machines.
    • Machine politics persisted in Chicago after the decline of similar machines in other large American cities.

  • City Government and the "Bosses"

    • Louis, etc.) were accused of using political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
    • Many political machines formed in cities to serve immigrants to the U.S. in the late nineteenth century who viewed machines as a vehicle for political enfranchisement.
    • Machine staffers helped win elections by turning out large numbers of voters on election day.
    • Later-arriving immigrants, such as Jews and Italians, rarely saw any reward from the machine system.
    • Evaluate the significance of the political machine in nineteenth century America

  • The Factory System

    • The development of machine tools greatly increased the efficiency and productivity of factories and mills in the early 19th century.
    • Interchangeability of parts was achieved by combining a number of innovations developed for textile machinery, including the invention of new machine tools and jigs, for guiding the cutting tool, fixtures for holding the work in the proper position, and blocks and gauges to check the accuracy of the finished parts.
    • Other factory owners adopted Lowell's practices of providing housing and other living necessities for the workforce, and using semi-automated machines in a centralized factory building or complex.

  • Manufacturing

    • The "American System" featured semi-skilled labor using machine tools and jigs to make standardized, identical, interchangeable parts, which could be assembled with a minimum of time and skill.
    • Interchangeability of parts was finally achieved by combining a number of innovations and improvements in machining operations and machine tools, which were developed primarily for making textile machinery .
    • These innovations included the invention of new machine tools and jigs (in both cases, for guiding the cutting tool), fixtures for holding the work in the proper position, and blocks and gauges to check the accuracy of the finished parts.

  • The Industrial Revolution

    • By the turn of the century, Evans had also developed one of the first high-pressure steam engines and began establishing a network of machine workshops to manufacture and repair these popular inventions.
    • In 1793, Eli Whitney developed a machine to separate the seeds of short fibered cotton from the fibers.
    • In the first two decades of the 1800s, the development of all-metal machine tools and interchangeable parts facilitated the manufacture of new production machines for many industries.
    • The transition away from an agricultural-based economy and toward machine-based manufacturing led to a great influx of population from the countryside, causing towns and cities to swell in population.

  • Factories, Working Women, and Wage Labor

    • These workers used machines to replicate in minutes or hours work that would require a skilled worker days to complete.
    • He memorized the design of textile machines, and on his return o the United States, he established the Boston Manufacturing Company.
    • The presence of cotton bales alongside the oil used to lubricate machines made fire a common problem in textile factories.
    • Workers’ hands and fingers were maimed or severed when they were caught in machines; in some cases, their limbs or entire bodies were crushed.
    • Workers were assigned more machines to tend, and the owners increased the speed at which the machines operated.

  • Middle-Class Reformers

    • The progressives worked through new middle class organizations to fight against the corruption and behind-the-scenes power of entrenched state party organizations and big city machines.
    • The hammering impact of Progressive Era writers bolstered aims of certain sectors of the population, especially a middle class caught between political machines and big corporations, to take political action.

  • Modern Management

    • His redesign increased the speed of factory machines and the productivity of factories while undercutting the need for skilled labor.
    • Machine shops, comprised of highly skilled workers and engineers, grew rapidly.

  • The Growth of the Cotton Industry

    • The cotton gin (short for cotton engine) was a machine that quickly and easily separated cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise had to be performed painstakingly by hand—most often by slaves.
    • Additionally, the development of large-scale mills and metal machine tools dramatically increased textile production in Northern mill towns in the early 1800s.

  • The Disputed Election of 2000

    • The final result in Florida was slim enough to require a mandatory recount (by machine) under state law; Bush's lead had dwindled to about 300 votes by the time it was completed later that week.
    • A proposed solution to these problems was the installation of modern electronic voting machines.