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Capital and Labor Theories of Melvyn Dubofsky

The connection between capital and labor as theorized by Melvyn Dubofsky is examined in a paper consisting of 7 pages with governm...

The Political Career of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

In six pages this paper emphasizes Powell's chairmanship of the House Committee on Labor and Education between 1961 and 1966. The...

Theories on Society's Division of Labor

version of a perspective on work that became fundamental to nineteenth-century debates (Dupre et al, 1996). The idea of work havin...

Globalization and Australia

implement them, however. In late July 1999 senior officials of the member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (AP...

Prison Labor Hazards

In seven pages this paper assesses the commercial labor uses of prison inmates in terms of the hazards they may pose. Eight sourc...

US Labor Unions in the Future

more male members than female (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). * Of Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and Blacks, Blacks are m...

Labour Patterns and Globalization

of the international trade environment giving employers a greater understanding of potential commercial choices. The question is h...

4 Articles Summarized and Reviewed

in the past but in the spot on which they stand" (Ryden, 1999, p. 513). Ryden (1999) illustrates how the social function of lite...

Economic Growth and Trade Liberalization

well as many organisations such as Oxfam and the United Nations (Beattie, 2002). Trade liberalisation may increase the support tha...

Human Resource Management and Issues of Employee Safety, Health, and Wellness

almost inevitably linked with high levels of stress, and therefore tends to be counter-productive when assessed in terms of the me...

Economics and Trade Liberalization

Obviously, much of this process will depend on the extent to which trade barriers,...

France and Korea's Different Labor Strike Patterns

Accumulation (SSA) approach, which utilizes Marxist political theory concerning accumulation, in part, and Regulation Theory (RT),...

Positive Impact of Globalization

possible to make an international phone call or surf the Internet from a caf? in Shanghai, while sipping a cappuccino (Micklethwai...

The Devil in the White City by Larson

is something that cannot be ignored. It was after all the Civil War that freed the slaves. Black people, or Negroes as they were r...

Law and Rights of Workers

One of the most commonly discussed realms of workers rights if fair pay. Federal law specifies a minimum wage that a worker can b...

Six Questions on Economics Answered

the way no enforceable rights will lead to opportunism. Coases theorem states that property rights give the market stability by al...

Labor Issues in Canada

where they are paid per piece rather than by the hour (Hammadieh, 1998). The hourly wage typically ranges between $2.50 and $4.00 ...

Overview of Labor Relations

What, then is a grievance procedure? This is defined as a procedure that has been established by a collective bargaining agreement...

Retail Industry Labor Issues

1999 many companies, such as Iceland and Sainsburys had already brought in the policy rather than leaving it until the last minuet...

Q and A on Business Unions and Marxism

considered its political potential to be highly significant" (1971, 39). Marx attached a great deal of political significance to t...

Industrial Relationist Theory, Social Reform, and Labor Movements

Not everyone does well in the capitalist system. Those who do well are hurt by unions, but those who have had a hard time in the s...

1978's Airline Deregulation Act

The Act changed the subsidy rates air carriers received for carrying U.S. Postal Service mail so that the carriers revenues were n...

Opposition to Illegal Immigration Arguments

of fields. A few of these points are: * "Each year more than 1.3 million legal and illegal aliens settle permanently in the U.S. ...

Labor Unions and Strikes

in terms of labor unions. These individuals had to endure extremely long days in deplorable conditions. When the miners first tr...

Organizations, HRM, and the Impact of Trends in the Labor Market

trends which the employers cannot change or influence, these are social trends such as increased knowledge due to the flow of info...

Cooperative Labor and Mangement Programs Compared

In ten pages U.S. and foreign programs of cooperative labor and management are compared in terms of similarities and geographical ...

Issues Pertaining to Economic Philosophy

This research paper examines eight questions that pertain to issues concerning economic philosophy. The topics addressed include t...

Robert B. Reich's Locked in the Cabinet Analyzed

In five pages Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Labor offers a humorous and extremely candid insight into being a member of the in...

'Mechanical Solidarity' and Emile Durkheim

In seven pages Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society is considered in an examination of the 'mechanical solidarity' chapter....

Questions on Organized Labor Answered

In five pages this paper features answers to questions on such organized labor topics as organizing trends, internal workers organ...