Collective

The article that I read was “Unions Are Losing Their Decades-Long ‘Right-to-Work’ Fight” by Josh Eidelson. This article talks about how the total number of U.S employees that belong to unions is dropping and unions have a possibility of going extinct because of the Right to Work laws. The Right to Work law is a Republican proposal that would have made it illegal for unions to charge workers at private companies mandatory fees. The logos that the writer uses in the articles includes data and…

The essay examines three pieces of law that have been significant in establishing the equities of management and unions; 1.)The National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act, 2.) The Taft-Hartley Act and 3.) The Landrum-Griffin Act. The Wagner Act was the first Act that judicially formalized labor unions and awarded them the right of haggling with employers. The Act made it obligatory for companies to negotiate with unions in good faith. However, as time progressed,…

There are many reasons why an employee would choose to join a union. Surprisingly, not all employees join unions because of dissatisfaction with management, pay, or benefits. In fact, on occasion, some employees join because it is the expectation. “Aside from social pressure to join a union, some workers become union members simply because the employment contract requires them to do so” (Dal, 2015). That being said, in the vast majority of cases, employees join unions because the feel that…

A Union Report In the belly of the country lies the United Mine Workers of America. This union currently has over 800,000 members and has been representing miners for over 125 years. The United Mine Workers of America was created as a way to protect miners, specifically in the coal mining field. However, today the United Mine Workers of America has blossomed from representing the mining industry to manufacturing, health care and the Navajo Nation (United Mine Workers of America, 2017). While…

Collective memory was introduced in the 1950’s when Maurice Halbwachs released his book “La Memoire Collective”. Born in Reims, France, Halbwachs studied philosophy and sociology. Collective memory consists of the idea that a society has memories of a shared past by those who experienced it themselves. The knowledge of a specific concept is past on to following generations consisting of information that is important, appropriate and preferred. Halbwachs states that current issues and…

And basically what that is, is that any act deemed not legal by law outside of game time, not only does the actual law get involved, but the organization in which that player plays for will also be punished by that organization. Collective bargaining agreements of the major sports leagues contain provisions that ultimately grant the commissioners the authority to discipline players for acts deemed not in the "best interest" of the sport. “The "best interest" clause developed in Major…

Collective Memory and Disney’s Romanization of Pocahontas Disney has a penchant for taking old stories, which were typically unsuitable for children, and turning them into movies with beautiful animation and songs which are generally regarded as “timeless classics.” As a result, the original awful tales are forgotten by the children who watch these movies and the shiny, new Disney retellings are passed down through generations and held in our collective memories. The same thing has happened with…

The Formation of a Collective Society “Totalitarianism begins with using the word “we” without every I’s permission” (Wiśhiewski). In Anthem, Ayn Rand gives a glimpse of what it is like to live in a collective society. Equality 7-2521 is unlike his brothers and is “cursed” because of those differences. Throughout the story, Equality goes on various adventures such as finding light and leaving his society along with its collective nature. The process behind creating a collective society in…

it exists as a narrative space for the Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez. In this paper, I would like to elaborate on the term, the “in-between space”, which was brought up by Kelli Lyon Johnson in her article “Both Sides of the Massacre: Collective Memory and Narrative on Hispaniola”; I will also discuss how Julia Alvarez utilizes the “in-between…

Tarrow (1994) uses the text Power In Movement. Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics, as an addition to the literature on collective movement, using perspectives from sociology, political science, history and anthropology to further his work. The author highlights that many times in history, ordinary people have taken steps to exercise influence on politics by acting collectively, in other words” there is “power in movement”. In his text, Tarrow poses the following research question;…