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Contemporary Business Relevance of Trade Unions

Businesses do not strive to work their employees to death for nothing more than subsistence wages. When General Motors soug...

U.S. Labor and Environmental Legislation and its Impact

do work under tough environmental standards and this is deemed to be unfair in the competitive global marketplace. Compliance with...

Canada's Changes in Technology and Labor

future of Canadian unions. The economic environment present during the 1980s and 90s served to promote human dislocation and org...

Postwar Period to Present Day Government and Union Labor relations

of investment in industry was the major factor, to which the response was the development of Thatcherism....

An Inside Look at the Labor Union in Thomas Bell's 'Out of This Furnace'

American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...

E Pluribus Unum Neighborhood Center Funding Proposal

course. No government funds on any level - federal, state or local - are available to the child care program, and the larger prog...

Effects of the Child Labor Act of 1916 on Woodrow Wilson's Presidency

unions had become large and powerful. In fact, Wilson ran on a progressive platform and so it would only seem natural that he woul...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. ...

Organizations, HRM, and the Impact of Trends in the Labor Market

trends which the employers cannot change or influence, these are social trends such as increased knowledge due to the flow of info...

Economy and Labor Market of Japan

in the total population and the population of working age: Iwata states that "It will diminish to about 40 percent of the current ...