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- 251: China
- ... of all goods and services produced in a country within a year. The national government exercises much control over China’s economy. It owns and operates the most important industrial plants and controls most nonagricultural employment and wages. The Communist government has achieved an impressive record of economic growth. The Communists have provided widespread employment opportunities, job security, and a more even distribution of income among the people. Manufacturing and Mining make up the largest single part of China’s GDP, 42 percent. The largest consumer goods industries are the ...
- 252: The European Union
- ... making processes. Some future objectives of the Union are: - to implement the Treaty of Amsterdam, which revises the basic treaties on which the EU is founded. It contains new rights for citizen, freedom of movement, employment, strengthening of institution. - to enlarge the EU, to include countries from central and eastern Europe as well. This was specified in 'Agenda 2000', a detailed strategy for 'strengthening growth, competitiveness and employment, for modernizing key policies and for extending the Union's borders through enlargement as far eastwards as the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova' (President Santer Jacques in the Agenda 2000). This Agenda is the Commission's ...
- 253: Separation And Survival In
- By: Audra Rourk In the spring of 1841, Solomon Northup accepted an offer of short-term employment as a musician, accompanying a pair of white men, circus performers working their way back to their troupe. A free African-American and resident of New York state, Northup expected the job to take him ... weeks, since he expected to return before her. When they reached New York City, however, his employers urged him to continue with them to Washington, D.C., where they were to meet the circus, promising employment at high wages for the season about to start. Northup accepted their offer, but the very night before the circus was due to start, he fell mysteriously ill soon after taking a drink given him ...
- 254: Attempt At Reconstruction
- ... were unable to make other political allies, their economic position allowed them to be easily intimidated by White land owners, they had no way to lobby the government, no way to leave the South, few employment opportunities, and for many Blacks no education.25 The leaders of the Reconstruction failed to underezd that without economic justice Blacks would be forced into a dependency on the White power structure to protect their ... political and civil rights. Inhabitants of Northern Ghettoes, were trapped not by Jim Crow, but by poverty and de facto segregation. Nonviolent protests, marches, pickets, and rallies did nothing to change poor housing, lack of employment, and inferior schools. However, the Civil Rights Movement's battles to end Jim Crow in the South and obtain passage of Civil Rights acts in the 1960's raised awareness of lower-class Blacks in ...
- 255: Eleanor Holmes Norton
- ... champion women’s rights as the chairmen of the New York Human Right’s Commission. Before joining the Georgetown University Law Center faculty in 1982, she came to Washington, D.C. to chair the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. As a tenured professor at Georgetown she still teaches a course there. Even before she began her career as an elected official, Eleanor Holmes Norton was named one of the 100 most important ... received sixty honorary degrees. Norton has been recognized nationally as a writer. A few of her published works include, “Justice and Efficiency in Dispute Systems” in 1990, “Bargaining and the Ethic Process” 1989, and “Equal Employment Law: Crisis in Intervention, Survival Against the Odds” in 1988. Some of her numerous leadership positions include service as chair of the ACLU National Advisory Council, the Workplace Health Fund, and the Women’s Law ...
- 256: The Course Of The Great Depres
- ... instances, such borrowers, although perhaps fully credit-worthy, would have had to curtail activities to adjust to the diminution in financing. Depending on circumstances, such a curtailment in credit could translate into reductions in orders, employment, and output that contribute to a prolonged downward spiral in economic activity. Emphasis on contraction in financial intermediation and mounting banking problems is intuitively plausible, if not fully convincing. Such emphasis provides a more likely ... beggar- thy-neighbor" policies adopted by other countries in response to U.S. policy. Imposition of such trade barriers and the resulting constriction of international trade appear to have contributed to the worldwide reduction in employment and output. While protectionism, in and of itself, may not have caused the Depression, it was clearly a contributory factor. Assessing Explanations Several conclusions stand out from the 1929-1933 period and the research devoted ...
- 257: Australia
- ... s title to the asset Fringe Benefits Tax Tax payable = taxable value of fringe benefit x applicable tax rate Payable by = employers Trigger = benefit provided to an employee by an employer in respect of the employment of the employment Taxable value = value of the benefit calculated according to specific rules - any contribution made by the employee - any amount that would otherwise have been deductible to the employee under the income tax provisions if the ...
- 258: Money And Information
- ... throughout the global economy, workers around the world are compelled to compete not only with each other but with their electronic counterparts - robots and automated machinery of increasingly diverse types. For a number of reasons, employment under these circumstances can actually increase while electronics is at the same time destroying the value of labour power. With electronics driving down the value of labour power, and therefore wages, more members of the ... technology. The capitalist does not care if production is done by the "gratuitous labour of machines" or by the "free" labour of slaves. The critical indicator of the impact of electronics on production is not "employment" statistics, but the polarization of wealth and poverty. With the destruction of the value of labour power and wages, wealth polarizes and the economic centre disappears. In this process, capitalism is compelled to destroy whatever ...
- 259: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... did this because in return, we were permitted to use British airports. (Straub, p.434) Roosevelt, because of the type of person he was, “one for all and all for one,” he appointed a Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce an executive order of his , banning discrimination in government and defense industries. (Freedman, p.151) I believe he did this because he felt there was no need for any enemies in ... fast and to win it overpoweringly. Second, to form world-wide international organization’s to prevent future wars, and third to build an economy for our returning veterans and for all Americans- which will provide employment and decent standards of living. We are not going to turn back the clock, we are going to move forward.” (Freedman, p.156) This is the type of leader America wanted, needed and had. His ...
- 260: Jobs Are Not For Everyone
- ... take the day off. Not with Bob around. To someone like him, groceries are life and they should be for everyone, especially me. Well little did he know that this little situation would end my employment with that wonderful shopping facility. I told him I wanted to see this show and he pulled out the big gun; he said “ Son, I don’t want to be a jerk but if you ... come to town? I think it was well worth it. I am only a teenager once and I will work the rest of my life. Jobs and teens do not mix. The worst part of employment is the nasty little tasks one must perform while on duty. Every job I have had has had such tasks. The grossest one I can think of was when the same guy who would yell ...
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