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A Financial Perspective of Globalization

to $336 billion (Capital goes global, 1997). That trend slowed some after the advent of the Asian currency crisis in 1997, but it...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

2 Essays on Social Work and the 'Worthy Poor'

(Trattner, 1999). Accordingly, leaders in the field of social work began to urge a pro-active stance toward the nations mounting p...

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David Shipler

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

Bill Moyers' Speech and Sociocultural Dynamics and the 'Working Poor'

synonymous with a systems approach, in that both terms refer to "nested" systems, in which subsystems specifically refer to relat...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

Minimum Wage vs. Living Wage

2006, Miami city government began requiring that service contractors that hold contracts of over $100,000 per year must pay their ...

Impoverished Neighborhoods in New York City

the phenomenon by noting that the poor are disconnected from middle class social networks that could help them land jobs or propel...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Kiyosaki

of us learn about money from our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say Stay in school a...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

Working Multiple Jobs

(Youssef). She gets home from her regular day job at about 6 p.m. and then works on her own business until 1 a.m. or later (Yousse...

Social Work Then and Now

According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University...

The Middle Class and Homelessness

number of employed adults, with children, requesting emergency aid is due to the fact that 127.5 million Americans, roughly 43 per...

Can "Laziness" Explain Poverty in America?

to cast the issue as a moral wrong is entirely fraudulent: the system is there to be used by those having difficulty finding work,...

Two Consumers; A Comparison of Purchase Processes and Influences

in the two months following Christmas, and that December, in the run up to Christmas is also one of the periods of peak spending i...

Flaubert, Swift Comparison

this age, will not yield their parents a sum sufficient to cover what has been invested in raising them thus far (Swift). He then ...

Gas Rationing

out a system so that those who drive farther get more gas? Whos going to go around to all the congressional districts and check on...

Nazi Era and German Working Class Socioeconomic Conditions

of Jewish property: I can still feel today the way I thought back then. I wondered: "what will happen to us some day because of a...

The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels

In four pages this paper examines Engel's communist views expressed in this 1844 pamphlet and considers the hypocrisy of the autho...

Working Conditions and the Industrial Revolution

any attempt to better their conditions was seen through direct contact with officials, rather than mill owners. With those realiti...

Shoplifting and Its Effects

loses $23.21. In other words, stores recover very little of the value of the stolen merchandise. Still, the statistics improve in ...

Pope Leo XIII/On the Condition of the Working Class

In this paper, the writer examines Pope Leo XII's text "On the Conditionof the Working Class," in which, Leo posits a qu...

Work, Society, and Consumer Time Choices

In fourteen pages this paper examines how choices are rationally made by consumers regarding leisure, market, and nonmarket activi...

Friedrich Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England

valid and offers perspectives that are perhaps ignored in historical texts. As such his work, though possessing a very powerful ag...

High Employee Performance, Working Conditions, and Salary

for the employee to feel a sense of self-fulfillment (Accel Team, 2003). * There is a sense of community, of comradeship at work (...

Submarino.com Website Analyzed

it refocus efforts to spur sales with limited resources; especially in Latin America, an area in which computer and Internet penet...

Friedrich Engels' The Conditions of the Working Class in England

the cities from the country regions. They would not commute. Rather, they lived in the cities so that they could attain employment...

The European PHEC and the American DTC

advertising in the US Since the mid-1980s, the FDA has allowed DTC advertising in the US. Originally, a few DTC ads were allowed ...