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    4. He introduced an incentive plan to pay the workers according to the rate of production to minimize workers dissent and reduce resistance to improved methods. 5. Increased production and produce higher profits. • The effect of time- motion study of Taylor: • 1. Reduced wasted efforts • 2. Set standards of performance • 3. Encouraged specialization and stressed on the selection of qualified workers who could be developed for a particular job. Gantt Henry I. Gantt (1861-1910): Gantt was…

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    The industrial revolution completely reinvented the factory community.The reason that the industrial revolution was started was to make factories produce more income and a greater variety of products. They did this by making production faster, crowding more people in a workspace, and paying them close to nothing. While the Industrial revolution had some positive effects, it also had many negative effects resulting with problems we are dealing with still today. Some of the positive effects of…

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    People look at this Industrial Revolution as a time of prosperity and development for England. Those people don’t understand the type of hardship that these factory workers go through in the factories. The workers are treated no better than slaves and most people don’t know that some women and children are forced to work in these hellish factories. These people are throwing their lives to waste. The Industrial Revolution forced many people and families to be bound to factories and live lives of…

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    ) The 1st Industrial Revolution contributed to the rise of capitalism as industrialization struck, businesses got bigger, the bridge between the one’s doing the work and the one’s in charge grew. The growth of these large firms is what advanced the wage labor based capitalist…

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    In fact, some analyses showed that because of the lower wages of immigrants more companies hired them, started to reduce their position for American workers. “These harmful effects of the immigration system were recognized in the reports of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform in the mid 1990s” (Ruark, 2011)…

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    The short story “Paul’s Case,” written by Willa Cather, uses the setting to show the reader more about Paul’s actions. Paul’s case begins in a town in Pittsburgh. Paul’s hometown of Pittsburgh is used to show the reader about how dirty and monotonous Paul’s life was. The setting later becomes New York. This setting is used to show the reader the life that Paul aspired to live. The last setting in the story was at the train tracks where Paul committed suicide. This setting has many instances of…

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    California Fair Pay Act The California Fair Pay act was signed into law by Governor Brown, this act proposed by Senator Hannah Jackson, proposes that equal pay should not be based on the gender of the employee, but on factors like seniority or skill level. Since 1949, when the California Equal Pay act was passed, women are still earning less than their male counterparts. On average many women are paid 78 cents per every dollar what a man earns doing similar work. Minority women have it even…

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    Yes, I do believe that the textile factories were very bad for the health of working class families. The documents A and D were the ones that were telling the truth and how horrible it is to work in these factories. And documents B and C were the ones really lying a lot about how bad the working conditions were for the innocent children Alright, since I believe these factories were very bad back then documents A and D have the correct information that I’m going to need. It states that the…

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    Why Do Athletes Get Paid

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    Athletes get paid million of dollars a year. That’s more than doctors, and even the president. It may seem unfair, but the athletes deserve their pay. Some people think that these athletes are paid way too much. Others think that the athletes deserve it. Athletes need the money to pay for medical bills and enough to suffice for the rest of their lives. Athletes have short careers. Athletes work hard to inspire and entertain us. Athletes deserve their high salaries. Don’t you think? To…

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    all ages, races, educational backgrounds, and professions have created an enormous economic disadvantage for millions of American families, damaging future generations. Millions of women in the United Sates are dealing with the consequences lower wages have on their families because they continue to be degraded and denied equal…

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