The scientists fear that the patents, if issued, will award rights for mechanized work rather than true innovation.

But the accord does not mandate that Perdue slow the speed of its mechanized work lines.

Each machine that mechanized work previously done by hand reduced the number of people required to produce a given quantity of goods.

Mechanized work on farms is carried on by permanent teams composed of agricultural mechanics and collective farm members.

But as manual work gave way to mechanized work, and then to automation, the need for such a huge space in the middle of Manhattan faded.

New mechanized work processes also created new groups of skilled workers: loco-motive engineers, clothing cutters, and machinists, for example.

So most of the private plots are managed by the older people, while the mechanized work, like driving the combines and trucks-" "Which pays a hell of a lot better.

Examples of draft-animal-powered or mechanized work include ploughing (overturning with moldboards or chiseling with chisel shanks), rototilling, rolling with cultipackers or other rollers, harrowing, and cultivating with cultivator shanks (teeth).

The early scene of workers trudging into the dark maw of their underground factory has been copied to death (most recently in "Road to Perdition"), but it remains unsurpassed as an image of how mechanized work for another's profit can strip people of their individuality.

Or one-person shows of established figures (such as the William Wegman show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2006) or emerging ones (the first overview of the curious mechanized work of Los Angeles sculptor Glenn Kaino, now at Pittsburgh's Warhol Museum).