Labour Party

slavery - the forced labour of captured beings with little to no regard for their needs. This practice died out largely in the 1800s, though not entirely, and the focus has switched to sweatshop factories. The practice of sweatshop labour - difficult and/or dangerous labour by a group of workers where more than one labour law is being broken - grew after the industrial revolution when workplaces moved away from the cottage industry to assembly lines and mass production. Sweatshop labour remains…

hypothesizes the the true minimum wage should be enough to ensure subsistence. Subsistence is defined as the minimal amount of necessities, such as food and shelter, for laborers to maintain their health in order to return to work the following day (Marx, “Labour-Power and Capital,” p.50). I propose to test this hypothesis by looking at the United States’s (U.S.) minimum wage and whether it’s enough for low-wage workers to get by with. The method used to evaluate this hypothesis will be…

As globalization remains to be a dominant factor in the global economy, labour markets around the world continue to be affected by forces of change. A few months ago, Bill Morneau, the Canadian Finance Minister made a speech stating that short-term work is the new normal for the younger generations and that we ought to get used to this “job-churn” as precarious work is here to stay. Precarious employment has become a widespread term that highlights the job insecurity not only in Canada, but…

Having a sound income and a stable job is crucial and essential for humankind in order to survive in this world. Most people in New Zealand earn proper incomes, have decent jobs and are able to live their lives comfortably. However, what most people do not realize is that the number of poor and precariats are increasing, which is why it is important to look at this issue in more depth and to understand why precarity exists. With the help of Guy Standing and his books, we can further examine and…

points, resistance points and settlement points. If there is a deal to be reached the management and the unions need their settlement points to overlap. If this doesn’t happen both parties will have to go back and adjust them so they can reach a fair agreement that both sides will be happy…

were created, which resulted in Qantas loosing its superiority in the domestic market. Consequently, Qantas created Jetstar a “low road” strategy airline to take over the domestic routes. “Low-road” employment relation strategies are based on lower labour cost and high managerial control (Sarina and Lansbury: 2013: 441). Despite the two branded strategies that helped the increasing profits for Qantas and Jetstar, the article argues that creating a low cost carrier wasn 't sufficient in order to…

productivity and performance? Workplace productivity and performance can be both classified at the micro-level of the organisation and the macro-level of national economic performance. Productivity is the quantity of output per unit of input, specifically, labour productivity is measured by output per hour worked (Peetz 2012, p.269). Performance can be assessed in terms of efficiency and equity; efficiency is determined when there is minimal input to attain an output and equity is the fairness…

Human Resource Management is the process of treating employees as human beings and not as commodities. For human beings are diverse individuals, which requires managers who can possess the social skills needed to manage employee needs. (Characteristics) Its task is to ensure that qualified employees are placed in positions that will be beneficial to the success of the organization. (Characteristics) The purpose of its inception was to improve labor problems, by way of better management. It…

the progressive era women strived to improve their social status and educational/political statues, though faced with many hardships they fought till they were heard and their demands met.Women such as Alice Paul the leader of the National Woman’s Party (NWP), Carrie Chapman Catt the leader of American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), and Eleanor Roosevelt would make these historical changes. Women of color also began to fight for their rights, fighting booth racisim and sexisim they were…

Child Labor in the Developing World In the latest International Labour Organization (ILO) report the organization found that there are an estimated 246 million child laborers. Of those 246 million, 179 million work in rigorous labor conditions (Azhar, 2015, p. 73). Some of the most common forms of child labor include work in sweatshops and mines. Children in sweatshops can work up to 12 hours per day for as little as a dollar per day (Collingsworth, Goold, & Harvey, (1994), p. 2) . Because of…