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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 and American Foreign Policy

leaves them little or no time to attend school (Sweatfree Schools, 2003). In...

Overview of ILO

(International Labour Organization, 2003). * management development (International Labour Organization, 2003). * labour law and in...

The Role of Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement

threatened the position of men, "especially as new machines permitted less skilled operatives to perform tasks formerly assigned t...

Communism and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

put aside old notions about social stratification as they do believe there is opportunity. Yet, at the time, things were dismal. A...

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 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...

HRM and Shortage of Labor

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Economy of Germany

other companies had laid off many employees, with the result being an estimated 4 million unemployed, rather than the 3.5 million ...

U.S. Policy and Children

as adults have an irrefutable obligation to create." Annan "has accused adults worldwide of failing children, forcing far too many...

Anti Child Labor Actions Taken by the Government of India

as a developing country, is to provide nutrition, education and health care to these children" (Embassy, 2003). Within that group ...

Emotional Labor Issue and Management

this is not the raw and natural emotions of the employees, but the way in which emotions are regulated or managed. This may involv...

Collective Bargaining and Labor Laws

The second groups criticism is based basically on the premise that there are lots of jobs available which would mean that employer...

Freedom, Consent, and Other Feminist Issues

Throughout the centuries, patriarchy has been responsible for designing womens role within society; many of these devices used in ...

Social Constructs and Labor Markets

economic factors involved in the labor market; these are those factors that relate directly to production and sale of a product or...

Foner and Berlin on Slavery's End

national level and then to the local level. In this publication, Foner avoids popular rhetoric and mawkish sentimentality and cho...

British Workforce and the Growing Participation of Women Since the Second World War

control practices and free contraception; the changing attitudes of women; and the availability of part-time work. After the war,...

Economic Philosophies of John Kenneth Galbraith

did the so-called "technostructure" - the idea that technology can have an impact on the economy (Landry, 1998). Furthermo...

Labor Impacts of Water Immersion

water immersion during labor. The dependent variables presented include: cervical progress, contraction pattern, use of analgesi...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...