Introduces a methodology for measuring differences in the labor standards between the United States and Canada. Use of the method to analyze the difference... BLOCK,RICHARD,N. - 《Relations Industrielles》 被引量: 64发表: 2000年 Labour Standards in the Generalized Systems of Preferences of the ...
and aid when retired or injured because of labor unions. They were also instrumental in ending child labor in the U.S. They also exerted a broad influence on American life, reshaping the political, economic, and cultural fabric of the country. ...
The history of Labor Day in the United States.What Is Labor Day? Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States and other Western countries that honors laborers’ contribution to our society. Outside of the United States, it is known as International Labor Day. Labor honors the ...
The roots of Labor Day grew out of violent clashes between labor and police during the Haymarket Riot in 1886, when thousands of workers in Chicago took to the streets to demand an eight-hour workday. Today, Labor Day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, but worker-oriented Labor Da...
While the notion of child labor still strikes a chord for us, for many people lucky enough to live in stable, developed countries, the concept sounds like a punch line—something too alien to comprehend. At least in the United States, child labor is almost exclusively a thing of the past...
Brenner, Johanna, 1998, "On Gender and Class In US Labor History," Monthly Review, vol. 50, n. 6. (November).Brenner, Johanna. "On Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History." Rising From the Ashes? Labor in the Age of `Global' Capitalism. Eds. Ellen Meiksins Wood et al. New ...
The Labor Movement and The Great Depression Collective Bargaining Women and Minorities in the Labor Movement Decline in Unions Sources The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. For those in the industrial sector, organized labor unions...
Child Labor in the United States ThePuritanwork ethic of the13 coloniesand their founders valued hard work over idleness, and this ethos applied to children as well. Through the first half of the 1800s, child labor was an essential part of the agricultural and handicraft economy of the United...
John Trumpbour is Research Director of the Labor & Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. He is the author of (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and of an essay exploring the US culture industry's global dominance in (Blackwell, 2008). In Winter 2007, he served as guest editor of the ...
labor day differs in every essential from the other holidays of the year in any country, said samuel gompers, founder and longtime president of the american federation of labor. all other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man‘s prowess over man, ...