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- 311: Treating People Fairly Is A Right That Has Been Changed By Affirmative Action
- ... the underuse of minority and female and humane resources in the workplace. Affirmative action refers to active measures and passive non-discrimination as a means of increasing the recruitment of minorities and, ultimately, ensuring equal employment opportunity. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the most extensive ordinance on civil rights ever enacted in the United States, banning discrimination in employment, voting, public accommodations, public education, and all federally assisted programs. Affirmative action was once a bold synonym for equality of opportunity. In more recent years, though, affirmation action entered the political world as a sinister ...
- 312: Comparisons of Classical and Keynesian thought.
- ... and until the great depression, most all economists were Classical economics. As a whole they believed that the self-correcting mechanisms of a market economy would continually guide the economy toward full output and full employment. Market prices would adjust to restore the economy to full employment and that if a slow down or recession was to occur that it would most certainly be short lived. A working economic example of this would be the Great Depression, experienced in the 1930's ...
- 313: ON POVERTY
- ... large-scale social welfare programs were initiated. After the public expenditures of state increased, there were cuttings in these services in new-right movement. With Reagan and Taetcher, they used the themes such as more employment, more economic growth other than public services. Therefore privatisation policies were began to be applied and state was formulated as function-oriented. They leave social services in the hands of private sector. Nearly all the ... economic restructuring in the world also encouraged a dual labour market with well-paid jobs at the core and low-paid jobs in the equalised periphery. The poor will tend to be those dependants on employment in peripheral sectors or not employed at all. And capitalism creates differences in poverty according to race and gender; as Williams (1989) has called a "patriarchally and racially structured capitalism" has played major role for ...
- 314: The Failures Of Affirmative Ac
- ... action, the answer becomes unclear. After the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964,it became apparent that certain business traditions, such as seniority status and aptitude tests, prevented total equality in employment. Then President, Lyndon B. Johnson, decided something needed to be done to remedy these flaws. On September 24, 1965, he issued Executive Order #11246 at Howard University that required federal contractors to take affirmative action ... When the Civil Rights Law passed, minorities, especially African-Americans, believed that they should receive retribution for the years of discrimination they endured. The government responded by passing laws to aide them in attaining better employment as reprieve for the previous two hundred years of suffering their race endured at the hands of the white man. To many, this made sense. Supporters of affirmative action asked, why not let the government ...
- 315: The Debate on Gay Rights
- ... in the homosexual subculture. In the United States only about 18 states have some sort of anti-discrimination laws based on sexual orientation. And of those 18 only 4 states have full laws protecting public employment, accommodations, private employment, education, credit and union practices. Therefore, to conclude on the No side of this argument, homosexuals should not have equal rights, their sexual orientation could be called a mental disorder, they should not be allowed ...
- 316: Will the Global Economy Help or Hurt The Next Generation of Americans?
- ... no more remarkable than telephone literacy today. Nearly every skilled job will require it."15 Because so many companies are downsizing and merging, this will result in a decrease of jobs and an increase in employment. "The price of beating overseas competition has been bitterly high; wave after wave of corporate downsizing layoffs, wage increases limited or foregone and the replacement of full time workers for part time or temporary hired ... better education and a committed and constant upgrading of skills. Our future is a more educated one rather than a cheaper one. Technological revolutions in the past have consistently led to gains in production, commerce, employment and living standards."26 Yet if workers don't improve their skills and constantly upgrade them, shrinking the gap between man and machine, this revolution will be detrimental to the welfare of our workers, their ...
- 317: Enterprise & Entrepreneuralism
- ... nearby offering a major threat to business. Business growth, structure, strategies and competition are to be addressed in the following document. Entirety of information sources and research are obtained from two year's part-time employment at Dillon's newsagents. Growth of Dillons: In 1988, Dillons employed Mr Charles Pettifer as the operational manager, from this date the shop solely provided newspapers and magazines for approximately eighteen months. During this period ... This greatly helped in promoting a friendly shop environment for the customers; good working relationships prevailed and common interest in the success of the business was reflected in the workers' attitudes. Although this method of employment assisted in creating a friendly atmosphere, the following internal management problems soon became apparent: Exploitations of relationships between manager and personnel was intrinsic in many staff related issues, e.g., salaries, hours worked, holidays etc ...
- 318: The Killing Floor
- By: Evita The Killing Floor Frank Custer leaves his young family in rural Mississippi in pursuit of industrial employment in the northern Promised Land of Chicago, Illinois. Little did he know about the true extent of the journey he was about to embark on. Initially a move to secure work and improve upon the ... its better to wait and pick his battles. From the moment Frank stepped off of the freight train and landed in the Promised Land, his life took a dramatic change. Originally in search of employment and a better life for his family, Frank found much more. Through adversity, loss of friendships, and unpopularity Frank discovered what it was like to be American, something that wasnt afforded to him as ...
- 319: Harlem Slums As A Result Of Th
- ... reported in the press (LaGaurdia 93). The majority of Harlemites even during normal times lived "close to the subsistence level" (Boyer 123). Many were "under fire" of charitable agencies in the period of relatively full employment. Those who needed money quickly and had not other recourse were forced to turn to loan sharks, Negro and white, who charged 30 to 40 percent interest: Harlem "has been infested by a lot of ... W.E.B. DuBois and Mary White Ovington who believed that racial equality should be given not earned. The rights that the NAACP fought for were a legal judicial system, the right to vote, equal employment, schooling, and equal opportunity. Unlike one of their main targets for legal prosecution, the Ku Klux Klan, the NAACP believed in solving their disputes through the court system. Another task that the NAACP was set ...
- 320: Societys Restraint To Social R
- ... recipients since 1967. Although the research on American workfare programs is inconclusive to some extent, many findings suggest that workfare is ineffective in reducing welfare costs and moving people from the welfare rolls into adequate employment. It was found that low-cost programs with few support services and a focus on immediate job placements had extremely limited effects. These did not produce sizable savings or reduce poverty or reduce large numbers of people from welfare.(9) Furthermore, While expensive programs with extensive supports and services were more likely to place people in employment, there was a definite point of diminishing returns where the expenses outweighed the benefits.(10) Even the limited success by some American workfare programs is highly questionable. Largely missing from the research is the discussion ...
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