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York Times Drinking Water
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Real Estate Agent Upton Sinclair
1,504 wordsA French philosopher once said that the greatest tyranny of democracy was when the minority ruled the majority. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle gives the reader a great example of exactly this. A man who earns his living honestly and through hard work will always be trapped in poverty, but a man who earns his living through lies and cheating will be wealthy. The Jungle portrays a Lithuanian family stuck in a Capitalistic country. It shows the ongoing struggle of a lower class that will never get far...
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Textile Mills In The South
2,738 wordsWhy did the textile workers union in the southern United States spread so rapidly? The textile industry was, at one time, one of the largest industries in the south. Starting in the late 1800 s with small local looms and spreading to become corporations controlling the south and whose influence stretched internationally. One of the souths first textile corporations originated in Gaston County, North Carolina, and its huge success led to the opening of mills across the Carolinas and Virginia. As ...
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Book Club Working Conditions
1,012 wordsThe book, The Road to Wigan Pier, by George Orwell depicts the life of miners in 1930 s Britain. The 1930 s in Britain were rough unless you were part of the upper class. The miners and others of that stature were suppressed, by taxes, by other classes, by just about anyone and anything you can possibly think of. It has a very socialistic point of view. Along with Orwell, there were a good number of men in Britain with the same view. The man that published the book, Victor Gollancz, was a social...
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Roaring Twenties Versailles Treaty
1,765 wordsThe decade of the 1920 s has been given a lot of nicknames. Some of these names have been the Jazz Age and the Era of Isolationism. Perhaps the most accurate name for this decade was the Roaring Twenties. And that is exactly what the decade of the 1920 s was all about. It was a time characterized on one side by a search for safety, religious certainty, business capitalism, and patriotic commitment. On the other side was the increasing appeal of the modern: new technology, consumer goods, and new...
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Occupational Safety And Health Building Codes
1,141 wordsA safe place for all Americans to work in! Few would argue with this concept that congress had in mind when it passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. The law applies equally to the rich and poor, the radicals, the liberals, and the conservatives; it is for people of all races, and it knows no religious boundaries. And yet, in the early years after an enactment of a law which makes it illegal to work in an unsafe place, a general feeling of fear invaded industry. What caused this ...
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Simmel Marx And Mead
864 wordsAfter reading the specified passage # 8, pages 101 - 108, I sat back and thought about who and what we have studied this semester. The information in the passage connected with three of the five major sociological minds that we have studied: Simmel, Marx, and Mead. The beginning of the passage talks about immigrants starting a new life in a new place, and what we a Americans think about it, which reminds me of Georg Simmel. A lot of the passage talks about how class and jobs relate to one anothe...
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Forced To Work Factory Owners
824 wordsAmerican dream promises equal opportunity to pursuit ones happiness, personal wellbeing, and reward for all those Americans and immigrants who endure, overcome, and ultimately prevail hardships. However during the era of American Industrialization, many people were exploited and forced to work or else face starvation. New inventions increased the rate of production and the efficiency of the workers, thus greatly increasing profit. Success of capitalism further promoted continuation of exploitati...
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Urban Sprawl Raw Materials
1,254 wordsUrban Sprawl is a problem that will have severe consequences for all life if left unrestricted. The unrestricted development of the United States and the world is rapidly contributing to the degradation of our ecosystem. Moreover, if over development continues there will be massive human suffering. Air and water quality are in jeopardy and topsoil is being lost at an alarming rate. If something isn't done soon to curtail rampant development there may be no way to prevent its destructive conseque...
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Job Stress The Effect On Employees And Employers
1,606 wordsThe Effect on Employees and Employers Job stress poses a significant threat to employee health and consequently to the health of an organization. This report will provide information on the causes of stress, the resulting symptoms, the consequences to employers, and the programs employers can implement to reduce the adverse effects of stress in the workplace. It is important for both employees and employers to recognize and understand stress and its causes. Often times employers confuse job chal...
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Labor Unions Harmful To The Economy
1,613 wordsThe Labor Unions of 2003 look nothing like the original Labor Unions of 1886 created by Samuel Gompers. Once used to protect people's rights now is too powerful and is trampling those same rights that were once protected. Labor Unions, which did shorten the workweek and workday and improve working conditions through collective bargaining, shifted their strategy to politics. Thomas Jefferson once said that "to compel a man, to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which h...
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Understanding The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Disaster
620 wordsTo a large extent, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire brought about many strikes and was a disaster that still lives among us (affecting us nowadays). This disaster then again lives with us for good. It will remind us for whom we have neglected upon. This way we can support the working world, as we will get the same sociability from them and others by cooperating. The fire that occurred in March 25 of 1911 was in many ways a disaster. However many people throughout the world (especially workers), are ...
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1,869 wordsTo understand the factors that led to the introduction of liberal social reforms, it is perhaps essential we firstly have a firm understanding and knowledge of their origin. We must be aware of the social and economical status of Britain at the time and how this also helped shape and influence their introduction. Many Historians believe that several factors have helped in the culmination of these reforms and within this essay I will attempt to illustrate and dissect these factors by re-tracing a...
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The Effects Of Industrial Revolution Today
790 wordsThe effects of the Industrial Revolution are still very important today. Most of the effects occurred to help men and women employers and were very advantageous, although some effects made life harder for workers who struggled to find jobs. With everyday life advancing so rapidly, many of the jobs that had previously been done by man were now done by machine. Those of the times were faced with the situation of man vs. machine. Womens struggle for equality has been a long standing battle, but beg...
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Virtual Reality Job Training
2,020 words... to achieve, an opportunity to perfect the skill, feedback on how well the trainee is progressing, and praise for transferring the acquired skills to the job. These recommendations should guide the human resource manager in designing, implementing, and operating any employee training development program. Now that we have an understanding of what training should include, we tan look at how we assess whether there is a need for training. We propose that management can determine this by answerin...
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Industrial Revolution Factory Owners
662 wordsThe Industrial Revolution spanned the industrialization of society with its three more spect's: the division of low, specialization, nd mechanization. Ech of these three factors helped to crete the modern industrial society with the vision of mss production nd the seemly line. The Industrial Revolution transplanted from England to the Untied States case wht ws, by the 1850 s, known s the american system of manufacturing. The impact on the american worker ws get. s the industrialization went on, ...
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Qualified Personnel Labor Market
1,967 wordsRECRUITING, HIRING & RETENTION Workforce management: strategies of hiring and retention of personal Abstract Recruiting, hiring and retaining highly skilled staff at all levels of government's operations are often difficult tasks. Well qualified staff can definitely affect efficiency and presentation. "Recruitment" refers to attracting competent applicants for openings and to inducing the successful candidate to accept an employment offer. Retention" refers to the organization's ability to keep ...
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The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
756 wordsThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore on September 20, 1878. Although his family roots can be traced back to a wealthy southern aristocracy, by the time Sinclair was born family could barely meet ends. Sinclair started to write in his early years, while in college, in order to support himself, yet his writings never gained any popularity. During his years in college, Sinclair becomes an adherent of Socialist philosophy, which was gaining momentum at the time. In 1906 ...
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Job Description Food And Beverage Server
1,878 wordsJob Description-Food and Beverage Server Food and beverage server (waiter) is a rather complicated occupation, not only the array of responsibilities is quite large, but also ones success depends a lot on the personal qualities, since the clientele always has a final say. Within the course of the paper, we will try to come up with the full job description for a food and beverage server, and in order to do so, we will first talk briefly about some aspects of the job at issue, to be followed by mo...
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