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Management, Labor, and Strikes

$6.00 per week (Columbia Encyclopedia, 2004). In 1806, the Philadelphias Journeymen Cordwainers union called a strike, however, th...

An Economic Perspective in the Reduction of Child Labor

along with the level of elasticity (Baye, 2006). Where there is a demand for a product or service, in this case the service is chi...

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...

Prison Labor in the United States: Capitalism or Slavery?

roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...

Labor and the Mechanisms of Social Control

turn would subsidize the churches (Pope 1965). This ultimately resulted in a strong degree of religious control over labor in the ...

Slavery in the Employment Relationship

their owners. The power all rested with the slave owners and the slaves had to endure the whims of those owners. In todays world...

A Statistical View of Labor Production

knowledge in regards to labor productivity. It goes without saying that productivity is a highly desirable quality for businesses ...

"Four Freedoms" Speech, Roosevelt

This essay pertains to FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech, which was delivered as the State of the Union address in January of 1941. The...

The Railway Labor Act (RLA)

This research paper reports on the Railway Labor Act (RLA) . It describes the Act, as well as additional legislation that also per...

Water Immersion During Labor

This 10 page paper explains how the use of water during labor is used in Sydney, Australia. This paper outlines how water-birthing...

The First Industrial Revolution in the United States (1800-1890)

of communication. Communication was provided by rail and wire systems, creating more and more jobs and industries supporting job...

Consultant Report on Canada as a Relocation Site for Business

In twelve pages this paper considers the advantages of Canada in terms of its diligent and educated labor force, its sound economi...

Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

The Exploitation of Child Labor

Tabasco State and are considered by UNICEF to be in the worst of all the terrible circumstances (Bachman 41). In Brazil, an...

The Issue of Child Labor

5 pages and 10 sources. This paper provides an overview of the issue of child labor and its use in many different countries. Spe...

Construction Industry and Part Time Employment

In fifteen pages Australia's part time labor market is examined with the construction industry's labor market also generally discu...

A Financial Institutions' Overview

In twelve pages this research paper considers both American and worldwide financial instutions and emphasizes regulatory control a...

South America and Monetary Union Possibilities

fiscal policies are aligned with the needs of continued economic expansion. The net effect within several of the nations st...

Paul Willis' Learning to Labor

In five pages this paper provides a review of Learning to Labor by Paul Willis' chapter 3 'Class and Institutional Form of Culture...

Exchange Process, Money, Commodities, and Karl Marx

In six pages this paper considers the first two chapters of Karl Marx's economic text in a discussion of commodity concepts and la...

Elastic and Inelastic Economies and the Impact of Labor Cost Increases

In six pages this paper discusses how elastic and inelastic labor demands are affected by a labor unit tax on industry. Five sour...

The Impact on Labor Relations as a Result of Airline Deregulation

In a paper containing six pages the 1978 airline deregulation impact upon labor relations is examined through a discussion of such...

Comedies of William Shakespeare and Love

In ten pages this paper discusses the obstacles to love in the comedies of William Shakespeare including All's Well That Ends Well...

America Changes 'Her' Mind in the Year 1991

sponsored by the National Cable Television Association. Of course there were many other studies done, but these made headlines bec...

New World Economy and Unions

have utilized their money and power to put pressure on congressmen and senators (1996). While unions were organized long ago to ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

American Foreign Policy Development

This paper considers how American developed its foreign policy concerning relations with Europe, Latin America, and the Soviet Uni...

Karl Marx on Labor's Value

In five pages this paper discusses Karl Marx's Das Kapital in an overview of his concepts and theories regarding labor's value. T...

Karl Marx's Capital Concepts Related to Labor

various conditions need to be fulfilled. Marx explains how buying labor is different than buying a commodity. It is expressed tha...

Companies and Their Unique Methods of Customer Relations Management

In twenty five pages the Customer Relationship Management efforts of Webvan.com, Dickssupermarkets.com, HomeGrocer.com, Amazon.com...