Abstract :
Obviously, productivity has come a long way from the village cobbler painstakingly handcrafting a pair of shoes ¿from the finest Spanish leather¿ for the lady of the manor. And although to some, the Chaplinesque production line represented on our front cover may have Orwellian implications of a dehumanized, mechanized life style, that same production line has meant that the many now can choose from a variety of goods that once were reserved to the elite few.
