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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Analyzing U.S. Labor Unions

the government was concerned, there was much less power upon industry, and the combination of these factors entirely changed the e...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...