Labor economics

3. Key Weaknesses of the United States In GCR 2015, macro-economic environment (96th) seems to be the biggest obstacle preventing the United States from achieving a higher score. Within this pillar, the ranks of government budget balance (114th) and general government debt (129th) are even worse, making themselves the major weaknesses (GCR, 2015). To maintain the illusion of shared prosperity, the United States government collectively made a series of unsustainable promises: pledged to cover…

must receive equal pay. During World War 1 and 2 the War Labor Board ruled that women working jobs usually performed by men must be paid equally to what men were paid. Both wars ended before the rule could be strictly enforced. The National Recovery Act of 1935 required women in the federal workforce to receive 25% less pay than their male counterparts. In 1944, Rep. Winifred Stanley proposed the first bill that would amend the National Labor Relations Act and put an end gender wage…

The Effect of Happiness in the Workplace on Outside Structures The subject of human happiness is complex and applicable to many different situations and social structures. It is a widely practiced idea that people generally want to be happy and the means to achieving that happiness can be sought out in a variety of ways. For some, great lengths will be reached to be truly happy in all aspects of an individual’s life, both personal and professional. People may seek happiness through relationships…

Introduction: Emotions at work have attracted a fair amount of attention from scientist and practitioners over the past decades. One of the topics is emotional labour which was introduced by Hochschild (1983). The concept of emotional labour has many aspects to it such as surface acting, deep acting, intensity of emotional display, the duration of emotional display, range of emotional display, automatic emotion regulation and many more. Their effects on an employee’s work satisfaction, their…

article, it was displayed that there are four major factors that are causing a decline in the Trust Fund, and if these are adjusted may assist the younger generations in order to receive Social Security as well. The four factors were listed as: Falling Labor Force Participation Rate, Rise is Disability Rate, Long Life Rates, and finally Lower Interest Rates (Chuck Saletta, 2014). These four factors are also within politics discussion and debates, and still have yet to be resolved, however I…

Show a child love & care, child labor is just not fair. Forms of child labor such as child slavery has existed throughout the American and human history, although child labor reached a new extreme during the Industrial Revolution. Children were being over worked, working dangerous long hours in poor factory conditions making very little money to support their families. Children were treated as slaves because they were very useful when it came to being laborers. Their little bodies allowed them…

Although children were servants throughout most of human history, child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution. The Conditions children worked in were horrific and violated human rights, these practices needed to come to an end. Nineteenth century reformers and labor organizers sought to restrict child labor and improve working conditions but, it took a huge effort to sway public opinion. Forms of child labor such as indentured servitude and child slavery have existed all…

We were tasked with reading four different articles about workforce diversity. The focus of each of these articles was the role that women play in creating diversity in the workforce. The first article “How to Get More Women into the Workforce” started off by stating that the baby boomer generation is nearing retirement age. Once consequence of this is that the number of job openings will reach record highs. Currently, the workforce participation rate is 62%, which is the lowest it’s been since…

the use of contracts. Despite the opportunity that many believed was to come from the system, it resulted in a negative utilization of Mexican immigrant workers. The Bracero Program planning first immerged when growers claimed there was a rise of labor shortages due to World War II. The American Farm Bureau, states that…

Isn't it weird knowing that, you can notice the demons of others, the beast that hangs around you, in fact, even at school, I see people’s own beast’s as I brush past the students and teachers as it hangs on their shoulders, or pulls them by their hair, grasping it so tight, they can’t break free. I notice the ugly beast of depression wearing my friend’s faces thin, the subtle beast of anxiety steer them away from me, the small beast of anger beating on their heads as the beast forces them to…