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'Decarceration' Proposals by Prison Activists

embracing an "enlightened, free society" (2000, p.212). It does seem somewhat archaic to simply round up and keep people behind ba...

Cesar Chavez, the Man, the Union Organizer, and the Minority Rights' Activist

told us we had to leave, or go to jail. My mother came out of the house crying, we children knew there was trouble, but we were c...

Oswyn Murray's Early Greece

In six pages this text's examination of the Dark Age of Greece in terms of politics and society is reviewed. One source is listed...

Crime and Charles Murray's 'Underclass' Theory

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and A. Philip Randolph

offensive against the union" (Anonymous Biography: Chronology: In Search of A. Philip Randolph, by Juan Williams, 2002; aprbio.htm...

Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve

In five pages this text as well as the authors' reasoning and their use of language are discussed in terms of cohesion and contrad...

The Legal Use of Child Labor in Pre-Victorian England

12 pages and 12 sources. This paper relates the specific views of the history of child labor and the use of child labor in early ...

Faces of Feminism An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement by Sheila Tobias

In five pages the first 1/3 of this text in which feminist history and repeating the mistakes of the past are discussed is examine...

Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Pauli Murray's Proud Shoes, and History

families are quite diverse. In Murrays case we have one side of the family that came from free blacks. Although they were poor t...

Considering the Week in the Life of an American President

House portrayed the work of the president as lackadaisical. Photo opportunities generally saw the president jogging or eating a Bi...

'1676' by Stephen S. Webb

central thesis. This perspective credits, not the governors, for achieving peace, but rather credits the anarchically self-governe...

Spain’s Philip II and the Colonization of the Philippines

far one of the more interesting chapters of Philip IIs life, in fact, revolved around that innocuous group of islands now known as...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Piven, Goldfield, and Greenstone on Politics and the Role of Labor

In ten pages this report discusses the analysis offered by these theorists regarding American politics and the influence of organi...

Marx and Neoclassical Theories of Labor Markets

capital disparity transfers into variable productivity. Therefore it follows that workers earn different wages" (Darrouzet-Nardi, ...

The Irish Labour Court and Labour Relations Commission (LRC)

the world outside of Ireland where the negative impact of the industrial relations was deterring foreign direct investment, a Comm...

The Boyer, Boyer and Morais Book Labor's Untold Story

The writer examines the book Labor's Untold Story by Boyer, Boyer and Morais, which discusses the role of labor in the U.S. econom...

Late 1990s' Labor Issues

In three pages such issues of the late Nineties including contract labor, the welfare reduction of the Work Opportunities Act, edu...

American Hotel Industry Changes

law and it is enforced by the Wage & Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). This Act was amended in 1940, 1947, 1949...

A History of the U.S. Labor Movement from Presidents Richard Nixon to G.W. Bush

March 1970, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Postal Service, there was a walkout in Brooklyn which grew to include ov...

Labor Unions and Globalization

In eleven pages this paper examines how labor unions have been affected by globalization. Twelve sources are cited in the bibliog...

Nursing Equality and How It Has Evolved

In seven pages this paper discusses nursing roles, how they have changed, and the status of equality over the past century with pr...

Twenty First Century Labor Unions

In five pages this paper discusses how labor unions will have to change to successfully confront the challenges of the twenty firs...

'The Iron' Heel' of Jack London

From his wife, by the means of her recently discovered manuscript, we find that "Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man. ...

Questions on Organized Labor Answered

In five pages this paper features answers to questions on such organized labor topics as organizing trends, internal workers organ...

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...

1st Year Labor Union Membership Importance

which certain social populations can better their existence, as well as how: * Unions Raise Wages-Especially for Minorities and W...

How the Air Transportation Industry Has Been Affected by Unions

globe and has played an essential role in the creation of a global economy" (The Airline Industry, 2002). "Today, the glo...

Administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins and Labor Unions

Citys mayor before Dinkins would grab the title in 1989. Many consider Koch to have been a great mayor, and while that is the case...

UPS' 1997 Labor Strike and Management Lessons Learned

general, as an organization grows bigger its organizational structure enlarges as well (Robbins, 1999). As the environment in whi...