Like the first great era of industrialisation, they argue, it should deliver enormous benefits but not without a period of disorienting and uncomfortable change.
If things had gone as builders envisioned 20 years ago, when the port came to life following private and public investment of hundreds of millions of euros, this impoverished region in southern Italy would have flourished under a new era of industrialisation, thanks to the massive new infrastructure project.
The term to describe the era of rapid industrialisation and social upheaval in the US was coined by historians in the 1920s, and was derived from Mark Twain's 1873 novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.
Anger at so-called robber barron families who built up vast fortunes from monopolies in US rail, oil, steel and banking in the late 19th century, an era of rapid industrialisation and growing inequality in America that became known as the Gilded Age, led to President Roosevelt breaking up companies and trusts and increasing taxes on the wealthy in the early 1900s.
This, of course had been the era of accelerated industrialisation, the country's first football World Cup victory and the construction of Brasília, the new capital and temple of modernist architecture; the age of bossa nova, of Tom Jobim and João Gilberto, of Cinema Novo and the great film director Glauber Rocha; of groundbreaking theatre and literature, of socialist dreams.
Environmental monitoring is getting more important nowadays due to the greater stress faced by the natural environment in the era of urbanisation and industrialisation.
For many observers of urban history, the modern era of globalisation began with industrialisation, whose effects occurred at a pace and on a scale not previously seen.
At the same time communism, a legacy of industrialisation's harsh early era, kept hundreds of millions of people around the world in poverty, and the effects of the imperialism driven by European industrialisation continued to be felt by billions.The impacts of technological change take their time appearing.
The show examines in parallel what the founder and the current designer have brought to the label, and explores how the work of each engaged with the advances and challenges of their era – travel and industrialisation in the case of Vuitton, globalisation and a communications revolution for Jacobs.
Scotland in the modern era, from the end of the Jacobite risings and beginnings of industrialisation in the 18th century to the present day, has played a major part in the economic, military and political history of the United Kingdom, British Empire and Europe, while recurring issues over the status of Scotland, its status and identity have dominated political debate.
That meant few economies managed the trick, but those that did were rewarded with a rich and diverse economy.In the era of supply-chain trade, by contrast, industrialisation means little more than opening labour markets to global manufacturers.
