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A History of the U.S. Labor Movement from Presidents Richard Nixon to G.W. Bush

March 1970, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Postal Service, there was a walkout in Brooklyn which grew to include ov...

Yale University Strike of 2003

purpose of using Yale as a "national platform for publicity for the labor movement and for organizing efforts" (Innskeep, 2003). ...

Postwar Period to Present Day Government and Union Labor relations

of investment in industry was the major factor, to which the response was the development of Thatcherism....

Contemporary Business Relevance of Trade Unions

Businesses do not strive to work their employees to death for nothing more than subsistence wages. When General Motors soug...

Airline Industry and Labor Unions

is not surprising given that one of the primary functions of labor unions is to insure its members jobs. Without the volunteer pa...

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...

Corporate Governance and Industrial Relations

and poor, and despite the existence of trade unions, poor representation of workers rights and workers interests in comparison to ...

A. Phillip Randolph and His Influence on Labor Unions

young Randolph, and in 1911, he made his way to Harlem in search of employment. Soon, he, too, was one of the impoverished Africa...

Administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Labor Unions

Citys mayor before Dinkins would grab the title in 1989. Many consider Koch to have been a great mayor, and while that is the case...

UPS' 1997 Labor Strike and Management Lessons Learned

general, as an organization grows bigger its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 1999). As the environment in whi...

Labor Organizations and September 11, 2001 Effects

rather than gaining in influence. "Writing in The Next Agenda, David Moberg explains that unions are crucial to making democracy ...

Cesar Chavez, the Man, the Union Organizer, and the Minority Rights' Activist

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

How the Air Transportation Industry Has Been Affected by Unions

globe and has played an essential role in the creation of a global economy" (The Airline Industry, 2002). "Today, the glo...

1st Year Labor Union Membership Importance

which certain social populations can better their existence, as well as how: * Unions Raise Wages-Especially for Minorities and W...

World Trade Organization and United States' Labor Unions

the United States seem to be able to get away with firing striking workers and organizers in ways that they just wouldnt be able t...

Industrial Relations and HRM

(Silva, 1997). In todays organization development literature, we consistently find the word strategic - strategic planning, strate...

Overview of IWW

a strong force with which to be reckoned, and the IWW was looked upon to carry the torch in a more detailed and somewhat offshoot ...

Labor Unions in Mexico

affiliated with the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), through the Confederation of Workers of Mexico (CTM), which is as...

Class Struggles, and the Value Labor Theory of Karl Marx

workers, meaning wages begin to decline. Also inherent in such a scenario involves promotion of cheap-wage goods (imports) to furt...

Hotel Industry and Employee Outsourcing

In eight pages this paper examines labor outsourcing by the hotel industry in a consideration of its advantages and disadvantages....

19th Century US Labor Movement

16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...

Firefighting and Labor

In a literature review consisting of twenty five pages this paper considers various labor issues concerning civilian fire casualti...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

of big business, especially in the past in this country, there was the issue of money and the power of money and how some companie...

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935

as the National Labor Relations Board which possesses a power wherein they can investigate issues, and made decisions on issues, t...

Argument for Child Labor

controlling other cultures it does not even begin to understand. America takes its own ideals and puts them on cultures they do ...

California and Immigration

In eleven pages this paper examines the society and politics of California in a consideration of education, labor, and immigrant r...

1994 Congressional Issues

In seven pages this paper examines the various issues the 104th U.S. Congress had to contend with in terms of labor, economics, so...

Changing Political Attitudes in the UK

This paper examines changes in political policy in the post Thatcher UK government. The author addresses the similarities and dif...

Questions on American History and Politics

elected to the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governors, Senators, and Congressmen. Black faces dominated the state legislatures...