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Manuel Castells' IT Theory Evaluation

internet is the centre of communications and social function for society from social communications to the conducting of commerce....

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...

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 ...

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...

Aggregate Supply and the Effects of Shifting Labor and Resources

Heres how this works. When prices begin to rise for goods or services, this provides a signal to businesses to expand their produc...

Post 1900 US Baseball Labor and Wage Issues

pension scheme. The players were fed up with low wages, especially as the revenue for baseball were increasing with the televising...

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...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

France and Korea's Different Labor Strike Patterns

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

American Labor Movement During the 19th and 20th Centuries

his business is in an industry where time is important. In fact, time is important for most any business and few industries are no...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Labour Patterns and Globalization

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...