SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Media and Organized Labor

Essays 841 - 870

Classical Sociology Concepts

everyone is unhappy in society and to look at the world as one composed of boxes or cages or bureaucracy seems rather hopeless. In...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Labor Productivity and the Concepts of Adam Smith

other words, the individual who unwittingly contributes to the good outcome is not at fault. Perhaps he is propelled by greed but ...

Future Changes of U.S. Labor Unions

Stern advocates that the 1.6 million member SEIU move away from the AFL-CIO and form their own federation. The only other option ...

Information Panopticon, Taylorism, and Labor Control

all aspects of work, such as the social environment, the interaction of human characteristics, speed, durability, cost, physical e...

Perfect Society, Labor, and Justice

In his article on "Distributive Justice" (in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy), author Julian Lamont points out that in the...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

Labor Theory of Value and Karl Marx

the financial backing to get off the ground. They were doomed from the outset. At least, that is likely how Karl Marx and Friedric...

1997 and 2001 UK Labour Party Successes

win, however, this did not happen. Both Labour and the Conservatives were both surprised at the result. Neil Kinnock had been at a...

Sweden, Ireland, and the Effects of Welfare States, Racism, Labor, and Immigration

comes to immigration and socialized states, in other words, whether immigrants will go to a particular country because of its soci...

East Asia's Economic Development and the Value of Labor Intensive Export Manufacturing

the free market model (The Economist, 1991). Hong Kong did follow a free market model, but as the islands were under lease to the ...

EU's Free Movements of Goods and Labor

the UK man made materials. The case here need to be looked at under Artilce 28 (ex 30), which states that imported products cann...

Family Medical Leave Act and Its Impact Upon Labor Relations

among corporations large and small that the FMLA is enroachment on their territory (Hengst and Kleiner, 2002). In the sections bel...

'Labor Slowdown Campaign' 2004 Australian Article Sociological Assessment

Now, drivers are taking action. Why are they doing this? The employees claim that they want more rights, and that drivers are be...

Physical Punishment, Child Labor, and England in the 1800's

and these changes, perhaps more so than any other factor, manifested themselves in part in the manner in which children were expec...