Unions were successful in solving the workers' prob- lems onlywhen the workers had high skills, and there were few workers with those skills. Nevertheless, unions helped other workers by bringing attention to their low wages and poor working conditions. Do unions protect bad employees? The only ...
The final section documents the apparatus of increasingly militarized police in the United States and the pretexts used to establish the basis for total crackdown on dissident expression and protest. How this all augurs in the context of the "permanent terror state" is summarized in the concluding...
Was perestroika successful at what it set out to do? What caused the Act of Union (1707)? What were the objectives of the Trade Unions Act of 1926? What was an important labor reform during the Progressive Era? What was one cause of labor strikes in 1919?
Mark Baldassare of the Public Policy Institute of California points out that much of the state’s budget is patrolled by unions. The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care. In many rich countries average wages in the sta...
What did the New Deal do for the environment? What were the successes and failures of labor unions? What was the goal of the Intolerable Acts? What was one drawback of the new market economy in the early 1800s? What were Sitting Bull's accomplishments?
In its early years the United States was a successful "melting pot”. The original settlers were of similar background, coming largely from Northern Europe, and were easily assimilated into society. Although the later immigrants were from different backgrounds, they tended to be drawn together. 在...
In 1966, she was appointed party leader, and thus prime minister; she was elected to the post the following year, then twice re-elected. Gandhi strongly supported East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in its successful war for independence, which made India the dominant power in South Asia. Defeated...
Drew up the first charter of the city of Boston in 1822-23; wrote the decision in Commonwealth v. Hunt, 1842, which exempted labor unions from the criminal conspiracy law. Related by marriage to the author Herman Melville. Died in Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 30, 1861 (age 80 ...
C). Technology brings jobs to the disabled. D). Working for the Internal Revenue Service 2. A). More than 42. B). More than 342. C). More than 300. D). More than 432. Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. 3. A). Successful business investment. B). T...
(Were) the Times Co. to purchase another major media company, there is no doubt that it (could) dramatically transform (a family-ran) enterprise that still gets 90% of (its) revenues from newspapers. Were could a family-ran its