Strand+3

Includes at least two business and corporate developments regarding the nature of work for each of the 11 decades from 1900 to the present


 * 1900 || 1901 || [|United States Steel Corporation founded.] (Toffler, p.20) ||
 * || 1908 || [|AT & T] swallows up smaller phone companies (Toffler, p.47) ||
 * 1910 || 1912 || [|Federal Reserve Act] ||
 * || 1914 || [|Panama Canal opened.] ||
 * || 1917 || [|Ford introduces assembly line] ||
 * 1920 || 1926 || [|Child Labor Amendment] ||
 * || 1929 || [|Wall Street Crash] ||
 * 1930 || 1938 || [|Minimum Wage Act] ||
 * || 1939 || [|HP founded] ||
 * 1940 || 1940 || [|As a result of the FLSA passed in 1938,the 40hour work week becomes common in industry.] ||
 * || 1948 || [|Automatic Transmissions introduced in Oldsmobiles] ||
 * 1950 || 1952 || Patent for[| Bar Code]awarded October 7, 1952. ||
 * || 1955 || [|Radio Fax Transmission] sent across the continent. ||
 * 1960 || 1960 || [|OPEC founded in Baghdad.] ||
 * || 1960 || [|EFTA founded.] ||
 * || 1964 || [|Civil Rights Act] ||
 * 1970 || 1970 || [|US Postal Worker Strike] ||
 * || 1975 || [|Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement] ||
 * 1980 || 1980 || [|Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980] ||
 * || 1987 || [|US Stock Market crashes.] ||
 * 1990 || 1992 || [|EU Single Market complete with Treaty of Maastricht.] ||
 * || 1994 || Japanese invent the [|QR Code.] ||
 * || 1999 || [|JetBlue], a work-from-home business, founded. ||
 * 2000 || 2000 || [|Dot.com Bubble Burst] ||
 * || 2002 || [|The Euro becomes single currency of majority of Europe] ||
 * || 2003 || [|Skype begins] ||
 * 2100 || 2010 || [|China becomes no. 2 in the world economy] ||
 * || 2011 || [|Projected that Russia will join the WTO.] ||