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Essays 541 - 570

FAIR LABOR AND STANDARDS ACT AND OVERTIME CASE

Discusses overtime in relationship to the Fair Labor and Standards Act. There are 2 sources listed in the bibliography of this 3-p...

Worker Availability Assurance

workers must wear steel-toed shoes, they are not required to own them. Workers are not guaranteed any specific number of hours an...

Labor Unions and Airline Mechanics' Involvement Implications

complained through its national director that President Bush not only was "taking sides," but that he was taking the side of the a...

Labor Relations' Environmental Changes and the United Auto Workers Union

be surprised by their recognition of the changes that have taken place, and what the future may hold (2001). II. About the UAW ...

Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx on the Division of Labor

all of these woes. Marx and Durkheim have always been concerned, in different ways, with the issue of social inequality. Marx...

Globalization and US Labor Unions

(Trumka, 1996). Back in 1996, Trumka made the announcement that the fight for unions would not just be an American worker ...

4 Articles on Microeconomics

of strong demand worldwide, tight supplies and fears that oil flows will be interrupted" (2004). Even with the terrorist attacks o...

A Scenario of Company Plunged into Chaos

as the CEO becomes too ill to continue. In this situation, the current CEO should be able to identify which executive is best able...

Antidumping Problems and U.S. Steel Tariff Resolution Options

than apparent is the fact that South Korea will have imposed tariffs but Mexico and Canada will not. Such favoritism does not bod...

Early Industrialization and the Theories of Goldin and Sokoloff

that the closer a firm was to a city, the smaller the opportunity for women and children (Goldin and Sokoloff, 1982). Still, when ...

Antebellum Industrialization and Tariffs

25 cent per yard minimum valuation (Irwin and Temin, 2000). On the other hand, the Walker tariff of 1846 eliminated the minimum va...

Freedom of Action for Employees and Labor Unions

right to refuse or terminate employment of an individual on the basis of union membership because this would be counted as unfair ...

Labor Union Organization and Graduate Students

be Considered Employees? The student researching this issue and developing a research proposal related to the topic will, first o...

Continental, Northwest, Southwest, and Delta Airlines' Labor Unions

may have helped these three airlines, they have a new problem in that: "Now, management must reach out to rank-and-file workers, w...

Differential Treatment of Women Laborers in Canada

the general population somewhat who still categorize some professions as "female" (such as teaching) and some as "male" (such as t...

Japanese Employment Relations and Globalization's Effects

a direct influence of globalization in Japan, for leading world economies are so interlaced and interdependent as globalization pr...

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

Remains of the Day, Gosford Park, and Portrayal of Labor Relations

hear me? Im the perfect servant; I have no life." (Gosford Park, 2001). The idea that servants lives are insignificant is support...

Liberal and Republican Views on Slavery and Emancipation

Indeed, Douglass (1960) book portrays a man living within himself in order to escape the atrocities of a nonliberal life; if not a...

Work Patterns and Labor Market Changes in the UK Over the Next Ten Years

New directives and increased openness mean that there is a free movement of labour within the European Union, whilst the pace of c...

East Asia Export Oriented Industrialization and Flexible Labor Markets

all labor and economic strategies in the region and has led to other regions becoming more "outward" or "export" oriented in their...

HRM and Shortage of Labor

the automotive industry so while suppliers may be facing critical shortages in skilled labor, the major auto manufacturers themsel...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Union Labor Practices in Guatemala

laborer and the capitalist. Levenson-Estrada (1994) begins by talking about the 1940s and the labor movement to come about at t...

Sweatshops, Compliance Code, and Nike

Because the main goal of Nike is to "enhance peoples lives through sports and fitness," the companys Code of Conduct states that e...

Nissan Article Analysis

to the role taken on by the union. Scientific management ideas were founded by Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylors theorie...

Record Labels, Major versus Independent

rock, classics, country, jazz, etc. - may be better served in the environment in which the major labels operate. When music types...

Second World War, the Holocaust, and Slave Labor

of land, and on top of it all, they were asked to sign a war guilt clause which stated that the Germans accepted all the guilt and...

The Shirt Off Your Back

occurred. Technology changes and moves forwards, whereas once the cloth mills and clothing manufacturers were at the cutting edge...

Child Labor Conditions and Government Policy in India

numbers unknown which is why the estimates vary. Regardless of the reports however, the child labor and bonded industries continue...