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- 281: MAQUILADORAS AND THE NAFTAS I
- ... cities. In May of 1965 the Border Industrialization Program was established as a replacement for the Bracero program. It was later renamed the Maquiladora Program. The program was established by the Mexican government to provide employment for Mexicos rapidly growing population along its border with the United States. This program was utilized to keep Mexicans from entering the United States. The idea was that Mexican workers would be kept on ... produce urine samples to be used for pregnancy test, while some have company doctors and nurses examine the applicants or ask confidential information concerning their contraceptive practices. This is done because pregnant women are refused employment. Sexual harassment is often the rule rather than the exception. Rapes occur frequently and few are reported because women fear being fired or blacklisted. Shame and humiliation also keep them quiet. In Mexico, men and ...
- 282: 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 ...
- 283: 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 ...
- 284: Life in Victorian England
- ... their opportunities grew just as well. The middle class consisted of people that were shopkeepers, merchants, bankers, or factory owners. Many people in the middle class did not have the opportunity of technical or professional employment. The only professional employment was to work in a law firm. The engineers in the middle class were the most involved in the building of the railways because it was their new source of wealth. Children in the middle ...
- 285: Alternative Medicine
- ... weight programs, educational programs, nonmedical self-help or self-care, or any self-help physical exercise training Lab tests, X-rays, adjustments, physical therapy or other services not chiropractically necessary or classified as experimental Pre-employment physical or vocational rehabilitation arising from employment or covered under any public liability insurance Treatment for temporalmandibular joint syndrome (TMJ) Treatment or services not authorized by ASHP or delivered by an ASHP provider This is only a summary(HealthNet, 7). Nowhere in ...
- 286: China's Economy Evolution
- ... enterprises remitted all their profits, if any, to the state. If there were losses the state budget would also cover them. Basically, the state enterprises were controlled like puppets. They had no autonomy in the employment of workers, the use of profits, production plans, input supplies, or the marketing of their products. The development strategy and the allocation system also shaped the evolution of the farming institutions in China. To secure ... activities. Secondly the relaxation of the allocation system provided access to key raw materials and markets. In the years between 1981-91 there was a real boom in the Chinese economy: The number of TVEs, employment, and the total output value grew at an average annual rate of 26.6 percent, 11.2 percent, and 29.6 percent, respectively. The annual growth of total output value for TVEs was three times ...
- 287: The Metis
- ... found it difficult. To them, the excitement and the adventure of the buffalo hunt held more appeal than farming. Hundreds of Metis were content to earn a living by hunting buffalo, making pemmican or finding employment as freight drivers. After a while Canada bought Rupertsland from Hudson Bay Company. When the Metis heard this they were alarmed. They feared their religion,their language, their lands and their old, free way of ... chosen as a possible candidate for the priesthood and had stidied at the Jesuit College de Montreal. However, he failed to complete his religious studies and returned to the Red River in 1868, looking for employment. His powers of eloquence and his hot-tempered nature soon made him an outspoken defenter of the Metis.
- 288: Life In The 1900s
- ... without it there would not be as many advertising agencies or as many positions in this field. Without T.V., advertising agencies would also face the same consequences. T.V. provides millions of people with employment in commercials, T.V. shows, and movies. Baseball was the most popular sport in the United States where the World Series began in 1903. Tom Longboat was born in Brantford, Ontario and was known for ... people immigrated to Canada from Europe, Britain and the United States. Due to the population growth, in 1905 Alberta and Saskatchewan became apart of the Confederation. The railway boom in 1903-1904 helped elevate the employment. Materials needed to build the railways and the transporting of the materials started the industrialization. Urbanization led to a serious problem of overcrowding. The three economic classes were the rich, average, and the immigrants. With ...
- 289: National Semiconductor: Business and Ethics
- ... will suffer retribution, if they report a problem, they arent too likely to open their mouths. (113). The workers knew that if the reports were not falsified they would come under questioning and perhaps their employment would go into jeopardy. Although working under these conditions does not fully excuse an employees from moral fault, it does start the divulging process for determining the order of the chain of command of superiors ... working towards advancing the entity known as their corporation (Capitman, 117). All employees, including the sub-contractors and assembly line workers, are in some part morally responsible because they should have been clear on their employment duties and they all should have been aware of which parts were intended for government use. Ambiguity is not an excusing factor of moral responsibility for the workers. Also, the fact that some employees failed ...
- 290: Evidence Of Technological Change
- ... several case studies of the effects of changes in production processes in particular industries (Mark, 1987). In an industry that experienced a significant change in technology, the usual pattern was a dramatic reduction in the employment of production workers with an increase or no change in the number of skilled workers in that industry. More recently there have been several econometric analyses of the effects of variables like the (appropriately lagged ... but it does not rise very much, for the increased efficiency associated with skilled workers performing their new jobs more efficiently than unskilled workers used to is at least partially offset by the decrease in employment in the initially skilled jobs and by the lower productivity of unskilled workers in the jobs that remain for them. A particular innovation, like assembly lines, railroads, or telecommunications, may represent different forms of technological ...
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