Congress of Industrial Organizations

labor issues and as tolerant toward ethnic groups helped improve the Republican Party’s image with urban workers and immigrants” (The American Vision 475). “By embracing populism and its rural base, Bryan and the Democrats lost the northeastern industrial areas, where votes were concentrated.” (The American Vision 475). The Populist Party declined after…

manufacture a small amount of goods (South’s Economy). The South’s economy was solely focused on slaves, and this caused industry and transportation improvements to be neglected (South’s Economy). The North had 1.3 million industrial workers, while the South barely had 110,000 industrial workers (South’s Economy). Slavery also has sociological effects. It effected the family. Slaves were not aloud to marry, and many times the father was owned by someone else (Williams). They were also required…

What is GLP (Good Laboratory Practice)? Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) is defined in the OECD Principles as “… a quality system concerned with the organisational process and the conditions under which non-clinical health and environmental safety studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded, archived and reported”. The aim is to ensure the quality, reliability and integrity of studies allowing the reporting of verifiable conclusions and the traceability of data. It must be noted that GLP…

existed as the nation’s worst economic crisis as well as the deepest and longest-lasting. It continued all through the 1930’s as consumer spending and ventures plunged. In addition, it created unparalleled financial institution failures, job loss, industrial and agricultural collapse which impelled an extended role for the federal government (Himmelberg, 2001). The unemployment rate of the United States in 1933 was greater than 25 percent. In addition, the unemployment rate for a variety of…

A revolving door, round it goes. Similar to conflicts of interests, this political issue occurs when there is a circulating flow between government officials and industry employees, representatives, or lobbyists. When there is a vacancy within a federal agency to regulate the food industry, look no further than the industry’s corporate leaders. But how did this never ending cycle begin? Is it causing any damage? The revolving door phenomenon between the food industry and Monsanto evolved from…

Because of all the financial problems developed by the stock market crash of 1929, more than nine thousand banks had failed by 1933. President Roosevelt knew something needed to be done to correct this so he spoke to congress about it. In the article The History of the FDIC, Robert Stammers provided what Roosevelt declared. He expresses, “On March 3, banking operations in the United States ceased. To review at this time the causes of this failure of our banking system…

There are many factors that affected the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA); from political, industrial, legal and economics together these external environment factors affected the way that veterans received their services. I will begin to describe how the VA was formed and illustrate how all the factors make what it is called today the Department of Veterans Affairs. The United States has the greatest complete system of assistance for Veterans in the world, this system goes back to…

2009, Citizens United, a conservative nonprofit organization, filed a law suit against the Federal Election Commission; the case went to the Supreme Court, who ruled in Citizens United’s favor. This case reignited a long debate between republicanism and free speech. The rise of the Industrial Revolution led to several concerns over the corporal influences and the quid pro quo corruption in politic. Since President Teddy Roosevelt’s administration, Congress has imposed regulations on the finance…

and unenthusiastic voters, a plan that would be fostered through a student-run organization on campus. Similar to the philosophy of Vote Smart, there must be a compromise within the initiative to accept that direct action technically occurs only through actual politicians, and with an issue such as voting laws towards criminals, nothing can be done outside of advocacy. The basis of such an organization would have to be built upon the foundation of spreading information about the issue, but…

of industrial development, commercial activity, a stable currency, and gain the support of the people. Alexander Hamilton achieved his mission of establishing a stable currency by founding the first national bank. Also, he sponsored a national mint, and supported the idea of tariffs to protect and foster the development of competitive national industries. While Hamilton attributed new profound ideas to the political world, he also brought to the public life a love for efficiency, organization,…