Labours of Hercules

At the onset of union organizing, employers often take necessary steps to overpower the union. However, without advance preparation the company may initiate policies that qualify as unfair labor practices. Similarly, NLRB sets certain regulations on the employer-employee relationship during union organizing (Fossum, 2009). It is, therefore, vital to investigate whether employers have a tactical advantage over employees during union organizing. Since the law prohibits employers from…

Labor unions are organizations of workers formed to defend and further the economic and social interests of their members. Therefore, employees join unions for economic reasons, job security, social reasons, recognition, participation, and as compulsion. Economically, employees join unions to get higher wages, improved working conditions, shorter working hours, and increased benefits. Further, workers join unions to get job security assurance and protection against arbitrary or unfair treatment.…

Why do we view the lives of children differently throughout history? The way we treat children has varied for example went they are consider ready from adult hood to viewing them as too young to make good decisions. Children use to have an active role in the workforce. Now days, most believe child labor should never happen no matter what the conditions. The focus of this paper is on children’s rights and the ways they were handle during the height of child labor. I took this topic because…

On September 7, 1885, the first nationwide observance of Labor Day occurred. Over the next four years, this holiday would be celebrated in over 400 cities. Oregon was the first state in the union to make Labor Day an official holiday, New York would follow later that same year. Furthermore, New York declared the first Monday in September as the official day to celebrate this holiday (Foner, 2005). By 1894, Labor Day became a federal holiday. How this holiday would look and take place was…

Textile factories are bad for the health of children and other working class families. The reasoning behind this is the fact that you “could not remain ten minutes in the factory without gasping for breath”, Document A. Also the regular working time “was from five in the morning till nine or ten at night”, Document C. The Main reason behind the fact that you could not breathe was that the machinery was always working, nonstop. The smoke from the machines caused the workers, usually children, to…

Sweatshop; a factory or workshop, especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours and under poor conditions. Many major companies domestic and abroad utilize sweatshops in order to produce their product for their consumers. Is it ethical to exploit workers in countries when the labor laws aren’t as strict and do not prohibit such actions. To truly grasp the question when it comes to sweatshops it helps to have all the facts as to help you…

“Congo is now total horror story, for years.” This is what Noam Chomsky, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, said after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the DRC, on January the 17th 1961. Unfortunately, he saw right. Since a few decades now, it has been widely observed that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African developing country and former Belgian colony, has been the stage of great instability; and notably massive human…

During the second industrial revolution (1870-1914), many children were forced to work difficult jobs for long hours. Child labor laws did not exist at that time, so children were not protected from harsh conditions and their affects until 1938. It is important to consider the future of children at this time because many children did not have as many opportunities as they should have, due to the fact that they were trying to support, not only themselves, but their families too. However the work…

The Industrial Revolution took place during the late 18th and 19th century. The Industrial Revolution took place not only in Europe but in the United States as well. The Industrial Revolution not only benefited the economy but also improved the economy. This occurred by the production of factories that helped increased the amount of jobs created, the development of new technologies and machinery that helped changed the way products were being developed and also increasing the amount of…

The industrial revolution left a drastic mark on society. The revolution changed the ways of people in the 18th century drastically; the classes began to change, some individuals became very wealthy but some individuals lived in horrible conditions. Children were sent to work in factories where they were mistreated and made to work as much as adults. Women began working in textile industries and started to spend less time at home with their families. The problems of the industrial revolution…