SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Strikes and Workers in the Public Sector

Essays 361 - 390

Comparing Two-Year Colleges

Two-year public colleges are more often referred to as community colleges. In recent years, their funding has been cut just as it ...

Politics and Health

If public health and health care could be integrated, it would result in numerous benefits, however, there are barriers and challe...

Public Administration Book Review

The paper discuses some of the comments made by Johnson in his book, Public Administration: Partnerships in Public Service. (5th E...

Defined Benefits Plan

The paper begins by explaining defined and contributed benefits retirement plans. It also discusses what happened at Con-Edison af...

Hospital Chaplains and Elderly Illnesses

Dementia is a debilitating disease that strikes mostly older people. The focus of this essay is Spiritual care for people with dem...

Responses to Essays in The Bedford Reader

and smells that delight the senses. Beds of daffodils and tulips combine with the fragrance of roughly 3,000 Japanese cherry trees...

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle

This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...

The Ludlow Massacre, an Overview

This paper presents a thorough look at the Ludlow Massacre, which is when the Colorado National Guard killed miners and their wive...

Teacher Strikes: Ethical Issues Faced by Teachers

This 3 page paper gives an overview of ethical issues faced by teachers. This paper includes how these ethical issues relate to te...

3 Strikes Law and Sentencing

10,500 juvenile facilities, which represents an over-capacity rate of 186% (24). Prisoners are doubling-up in cells. They are sl...

God's Bits of Wood by Sembene Ousmane

In five pages this paper examines the strike of Senegal's railway employees as examined in this novel by Ousmane with women's role...

Society and Laws of Defamation Laws

In five pages striking that precarious balance between free speech and personal reputation is considered in terms of laws regardin...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

Pullman, Illinois

In five pages this paper examines a planned Illinois town that was created and controlled by the Pullman Company with the impact o...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

face of all odds endows Gideons Trumpet with all the elements that typically comprise an American bestseller. On the other ...

1997's UPS Strike

In an interview with the Cable News Network (CNN) "MoneyLine" program, United Parcel Services president and CEO James Kelly noted ...

Overview of the Parcel Delivery Industry

In six pages this paper discusses how the United Parcel Service strike transformed the parcel delivery industry in this overview. ...

UPS Strike of 1997, Labor and Management

In ten pages this paper examines the relationship between management and labor unions in a consideration of the 1997 United Parcel...

Mining Women of 19th Century France and Germinal by Emile Zola

sort of enterprise, and his spouses role is to stay home and tend to the upbringing of the children. Children in bourgeois familie...

Union History and Reform Legislation

Union history is the focus of this paper consisting of ten pages in which the Wagner Act, the Taft Hartley Act, and the Labor Mana...

1890s Crisis in America

In three pages various crises including Coxey's Army and the Pullman train strike are examined as they affected the post Civil War...

Considering Three Strikes

ten years older.) (Allenye, 1996; Reynolds, 1995). It is commonly believed by those who frown upon the Three Strikes Law that alm...

The Tobacco Industry and Advertising

the segmented portions of society. Allenby (1998) is quick to caution those who jump too fast on the homogenous marketing bandwag...

Striking and Teachers

scene or people could die. Similarly, hospitals need staff and emergency personnel. One can see why striking in such occupations a...

1919's Police Strike in Boston

intent was to create better working conditions, fewer hours and higher pay in exchange for putting their lives on the line and uph...

Early Labor History in Three Strikes by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin Kelley

Upon arrival, the worker would enter a foreboding building or mine shaft to immediately fall under the prying eyes of the foremen ...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Three Strikes Law in California

of those that opponents to the law point to as evidence its injustice. In 1995, Andrade was arrested for shoplifting $84 worth of ...

A Case Study on Accounting Issues

need to consider the way the companies is going to compete. For example, the structure of a company seeking to develop a cost adva...

Proposition 184

drug. Said former Drug Enforcement Agency Administrator Robert Bonner, "A very, very large percentage of those dealing in crack c...