Labor rights

Public concern the effects of these conditions on children began to rise. Advocates for child labor laws pointed out that children who worked such long hours (sometimes as much as sixty or seventy hours a week) were deprived of education, fresh air, and time to play. They also worried about the physical risks: children in factories had high accident rates. Some states passed laws restricting child labor, but these placed states with restrictions at an economic disadvantage. In response to these…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

Property Rights One of the largest objections against lessening immigration restrictions has to do with property rights. Those against immigration many times compare countries to households, with citizens being members of the household, and immigrants as a housemate who is not paying the monthly rent3. They will argue that if US natives would not let someone into their home and use their private property, then, there is no reason to let them into the country. It is the idea that the people and…

Jackie Smiths speech titled, “Economic Globalization and Labor Rights: Towards Global Solidarity” is a speech that is centered among the effects that globalization have had on both workers and unions. The speech has three main arguments imbedded throughout. The first argument is that “economic globalization has essentially enabled markets rather than people to determine how the world’s resources will be used and distributed (874).” The second argument is that “the policies of global economic…

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…

lives of both white and black women. Women in slavery experienced hardships and effects that men in slavery never experienced. One of the primary roles that a slave woman had was motherhood. After the child was old enough for labor, the slave mother was trained to labor in a domestic setting or work in the fields. Young enslaved women were expected to be maids, cleaners and some were employed as wet nurses and even breastfed the children of the slave master. There were more women then men…

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…