Labor historians

The course this week focused on Fire Service Labor Relations. The main roles in this topic are management and labor which work hand and hand to make the organization run like a well-tuned machine. The communications between the two parties is what allows information to flow to create change and address issues. The presentations were designed to focus on the level and types of communication in the individual’s organization, any pertinent issues or grievances, measures the level of trust present,…

“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…

“United we bargain, divided we beg,” was the slogan for working class individuals that lead many men and women to come together to demand better hours, working conditions and higher pay. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is one legal theory that plays an important role in the way in which many businesses operate and . “The NLRA guarantees the rights of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employers and to engage in other protected concerted activity.” When an employee…

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…

Immigrant Work Force Effects on Economy A study published by Rasmussen Reports in August of 2015, an American polling company, showed that 51% of voters believe that illegal immigrants are taking jobs away from native workers. This is a valid fear to have as illegal immigrants cross the border of our country every day and make a living competing with our own workers, for our jobs, in our country. Research goes to show that immigrants compete with low skilled workers, teenagers, and black males,…

In this world division of labor and capitalism is essential for capitalist, most people would also think is important for the workers as well. Which it is for a period of time, but after a while the benefit fades away. There are more negative consequences of division labor and capitalism than you think. This essay will analyze all the negative consequences of the division and labor and capitalism arguments by Smith, Marx, and Durkheim. In Adam Smith’s book “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes…

as their mother. In the 18th – 19th century they went from working on the farm to working in the city. This is the age adolescence in children went to the cites to work in factories for long hours in bad working conditions. They were seen as cheap labor and were used to fill the high demand of the indoctrination period. Men 16 to 20 comprised over half the work force, they worked in textile mills, rubber factories, and agricultural tool factories. 40% of the female work force for boot and shoe…

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…

“Piece rate” payment is in fashion to keep labor costs low where sweatshops wage are based on the number of items – shirts, shoes, socks – they complete in a shift which shows that they have to work hard and work long. In “Free Trade Agreements and a Global Economy Increase Sweatshops”, a Mexican…