Labor Day

“The multinational Cargill Corporation, with its local meatpacking plant in Beardstown, is the protagonist that brought about this demographic transformation” (Miraftab, P. 6). Companies such as Cargill Corporation meatpacking plant help cities like Beardstown become diverse and help grow their economy. But do companies generate globalization? What is the source of locals not finding jobs while migrants find jobs in companies like meatpacking plants? Immigrants aren’t to blame for the start…

Since the 1970’s the numbers of women in the workforce have increased exponentially. According to current population reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Caucasian women ages 16 and older comprised 53.3 percent of the Caucasian civilian labor workforce surveyed in 2013. In the same respect, African American women comprised 52 percent of the African American workforce, Latino women 50.4 percent of the Latino workforce, and Asian women 54.3 percent of the Asian workforce surveyed…

Historically, parenting has been seen as the primary responsibility of women. This perspective has continued through till contemporary times. In recent decades there has been a shift of women into paid employment, however this has not been matched by a shift of men into the domestic sphere. Firstly, the historical contexts of the division of labour will be discussed. Secondly, explanations will be provided as to why a gendered division of labour still exists. Thirdly, solutions will be provided…

What are the main assumptions? In Dancing with Robots Levy & Murnane (2013) put forward a number of arguments relating to labour markets, education, and the standardisation of robotic labour; which can also be referred to as Skill-Biased Technological Change (SBTC). To begin, Levy & Murnane acknowledge computer strengths and limitations while acknowledging some foreseeable future challenges of cybernation. For example, computer strengths are speed and accuracy rather than flexibility. In…

countries in terms of parental leave benefits. It was not until 1993 that unpaid parental leave was mandated under the U.S. family and medical leave act (FMLA). Even with the enactment of FMLA, it contains many restrictions that made more than half of the labor force ineligible. In addition, take up rate among eligible workers is modest compared to European countries. Moreover, FMLA only guarantees up to 12 weeks which is lower in comparison with other OECD countries where paid leave ranges…

Human Migration has long been recognized as an important means of redistributing labor to promote regional growth \citep{krieg1997occupational}. Each year a small fraction of the labor force moves between different provinces in Canada. Numerous studies focus on provincial mobility in Canada. However most of the studies are based on census data and estimation of provincial net migration rate to determine overall gain and loss of a province \citep{bernard2008interprovincial, chen2009inter,…

Look ahead The title indicates the the main topic for the excerpt. The subtitles indicate in depth what title is about. The introduction overview states what human trafficking is. It provides a basic structure for the rest of the report by providing background information about human trafficking. The conclusion leaves the readers with a brief overview of the whole report by stating pulling repeating the thesis statement in the introduction and taking the main idea from from each paragraph.…

The Civil Right to Equal Pay In the United States, the notion that women can perform any task at the same ability as a man is normally considered the truth. There are female physicians, female police officers, and females serving in the army. All of these occupations lead one to believe that women can do any job a man can do, but the simple truth is that women still do not get paid equally when compared to men. Even after the passing of the Equal Pay Act of 1963, women working full time “still…

more likely to hold part time jobs prior to the war, but with the lack of labor supply, they were able to gain better full time employment. Arguably, at the time of the second world war, the average american was more sexist or more racist, but on the homefront, all labor was needed, beggars cannot be choosers. The mass of women working helped set a precedent for after the war, in which women were more welcome within the labor force. “By 1950 the percentage of employed women was almost back to…

were used for the horses and the iron plough share (White 1940, 154-155). Under a feudal system, agriculture was a labor intensive industry because the capital was an effective means of substitution. That caused more workers to be tied to the land in order to produce what was needed to survive and in many cases the food supply could not sustain a larger society (White 1940, 151). Labor also had diminishing marginal returns, meaning that each added laborer…