This caricature is named "The New Old Mc Donald's Farm". It was made by A. Singer in 2006. 

  In the foreground, I can see a man on a tractor with a big suit. Behind this tractor, there is a tank with a skull with a tap which spray salad. In the background, There are beefs on a travelator whiches go to an house with the radioactive symbol on it. Everywhere in this caricature, there are salads in the farm.

 The man is singing a readaption of a famous american song. This song is supposed to be a children song, with pigs, cows,  ducks... In this version, the farmer replaces animals' names by terms like: Pesticides, Genetically Engineered Crops, Arradiated Beef... He uses the same positive melody to speak about chemicals and factory farming.  We can imagine the tank sprays with pesticides because of the skull. Behind, beefs are going to become irradiated beef.

 It's not random if the drawer choose this song. With this readaption, he criticizes the famous fast food "Mc Donald's" and he accuses fast food 's productions to be creat with irradiated beef, pesticides ...

With this caricature, the cartoonist, A singer, criticizes farms of today. He uses humour with a readaptation of a famous child song, and he changes it remplacant animal's terms in chemical's terms.

I like this caricature because I knew the real song before our work on this caricature. I think this caricature is not an exaggeration when we learn rivers are polluted. Furthermore, this caricature is easy to understand and to explain.

You can find other funny caricatures on this site:

http://www.caglecartoons.com/

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Fordism and Taylorism<o:p></o:p>

The Fordism

    The Fordism is named after Henry Ford . It refers to several social theories . Ford ( 1863-1947 ) was an American engineer . He founded the Ford Motor Company at Detroit in 1903 . He was a pioneer of standardization, mass production and the assembly line . By adopting these techniques he was able to produce reliable and low cost cars and other motor vehicles . He made his first “gasoline buggy” in 1893 and produced farm factors in 1915 .

    The Fordism production system has 4 key elements :<o:p></o:p>

           -The separation of different work tasks between different groups of workers , in witch unskilled workers execute simple , repetitive tasks and skilled workers undertake functions related to research , design , marketinq and quality control .<o:p></o:p>

           -Parts and components of the motor vehicles are highly standardized . <o:p></o:p>

           -The machines are arranged in the right order to manufacture the product .<o:p></o:p>

           -Workers are working on an assembly line .<o:p></o:p>

      The main goal of Fordism is to lower the manufacturing cost of the automobile . <o:p></o:p>

The Fordism production system was used again by other firms .<o:p></o:p>

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The Taylorism

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      The Taylorism is named after Frederick Winslow Taylor . It’s also called Scientific Management . Taylor thought that decisions based upon tradition should be replaced by precise procedures developed after studies about a person at work . <o:p></o:p>

      The Taylorism consist in : <o:p></o:p>

             -developing a standard method to perform each job .<o:p></o:p>

             -selecting workers with appropriate capacities for each job .<o:p></o:p>

             -training workers for the standard method previously developed ; <o:p></o:p>

             -supporting workers by organizing their work .<o:p></o:p>

             -giving incentives payment to workers to increase output <o:p></o:p>

But the Taylorism ignores individual differences so it is efficient , but not for all the workers. <o:p></o:p>

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 => Thanks to  Ford and Taylor , America became an industrial country .<o:p></o:p>

                                                                                                                                                               Héliciane Palenzuela , 1èreS10 :)