SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :US Labor Movement and the Contributions of Walter Reuther

Essays 151 - 180

World Trade Organization and United States' Labor Unions

the United States seem to be able to get away with firing striking workers and organizers in ways that they just wouldnt be able t...

Foreign Markets and the American Automobile Industry

meet the deadline (Jewett, 1998). The PNGV requires the Big 3 to work together in the research and development stages but then ap...

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...

Growth of America from the U.S. Contribution to the 1812 War

people as it respects the rights of individual states and the federal government. To that end, the rivalry between Thomas Jefferso...

Student Supplied Case Study on a Japanese Joint Venture and Labor Problems

which would result in very expensive litigation in both Japan and the United States. The situation will cause the company to lose ...

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. ...

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 ...

Globalization and US Labor Unions

(Trumka, 1996). Back in 1996, Trumka made the announcement that the fight for unions would not just be an American worker ...

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 ...

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...

Post 1865 Minority Labor Organization Success

of child and convict workers. The movement opened doors for women, African Americans and immigrants that had up until then been s...

1905 to 1918 US Women's Suffrage Movement

a place in the trades and professions... is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty" (Cullen-Dupont and Frost, 1992, p. 287)...

Marbury v. Madison and the US Supreme Court's Jurisdiction Justification

tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...

Labor Force Diversity

is one of great diversity. While there has been much controversy in recent years about immigration in this country, the reality i...

Railway and Airline Industry Labor Relations Laws

reach out to rank-and-file workers, who have been demoralized by their immense sacrifices" (pp. 56). The student researching airli...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

U.S. Prohibition Movement from 1920 to 1933

per centum or more of alcohol by volume which are fit for use for beverage purposes" (Volstead Act of 1919, 1997, p. 1). Furtherm...

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...

US Employment Law and Labor System

are not strong enough. A new trend to let go of older executives has swept America and while there are sporadic lawsuits, it has n...

U.S. Movement of Third World War Torn Citizens

contends the U.S. "is not now and never has been a remotely multi-cultural society. The American nation has always had a specific...

U.S. Society and Division of Labor

are found in the homes of the wealthy. Not too long ago, Supreme Court justice applicants were found to have immigrants in their e...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

The Slave Abolition Movement Before the U.S. Civil War

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

Aspects of U.S. History - Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor's Rise

that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by a...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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...

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 ...

U.S. Civil War and Major Political Figures

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

Labor and the New Labour Party

suspicious of capitalism (Allison, 1998). But, the honeymoon seems to be over. The New Labour Party is criticized for dithering o...