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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Parr, Sutherland, and Bullen Article Analysis on Urban and Rural Children's Labor and Economic Responsibilities

or wages in order to sustain the family lifestyle. In all cases, middle and upper class children who do not have the same labor ob...

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...

Labor and Delivery Nursing and Civil Negligence Issues

2000). In other words, medical malpractice is a form of negligence that "denotes an injury to a patient caused by a health care pr...

"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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Shakespeare, Love, and Loyalty

In five pages this report examines the plays Love's Labor's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream in terms of William Shakespeare's d...

U.S. Labor Movement

In five pages this paper discusses the U.S. labor movement in a consideration of its history and evolution from the Knights of Lab...

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...

Politics of Latin America

perspectives may well have something to offer the worker. With populism the worker can, hopefully, possess more of a voice and mor...

Expansion of the European Union; Is Potential Membership of Further Eastern European Union Advisable?

membership for several decades; other Eastern European countries have also expressed the desire to become part of the European Uni...

“Chimpanzee Politics”

the quest for power. For chimps that quest is most often loud and apparent. For humans it is often more subtle and calculated....

Regional Trading Blocs - Implications

were formed to benefit members and specifically the economy of members (Reardon et al, 2002). However, the actual benefits have be...

Regional Integration

it (Oxfam Education, 2007). This alliance had two primary objectives: to forestall another war, i.e., to encourage and foster peac...

The Importance of Unions: Construction Workers

where they are not discriminatory at all, nor can they be. Unions raise the wages of people who do not have college degrees, but c...

Will Unions be Relevant in the Future

is that the desires and interests of the workforce has changed and no longer are they the same as what fueled the labor movement i...