|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 351 - 360 of 1027 matching essays
- 351: Labor In America
- ... day and against child labor. A number of state legislatures responded favorably. In 1851, for example, New Jersey passed a law calling for a 10-hour working day in all factories. It also forbade the employment of children under 10 years old. Meanwhile trade unions were joining together in cities to form federations. A number of skilled trades organized national unions to try to improve their wages and working conditions. The ... state militia against strikers. They were outraged by inhuman conditions in factories and mines. The Progressives and the AFL pressured state governments for laws to protect wage earners. Almost all states passed laws forbidding the employment of children under 14 years old. Thirty-seven states forbade children under 16 years old to work between 7p.m. and 6a.m. Nineteen states established the eight-hour day for children under 16 in ...
- 352: Life In The 1900's
- ... 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 ...
- 353: Biography Of Adam Smith
- ... that Smith was already "developing his analysis of the institution of the division of labor (West 49)." "When the market is very small it is altogether impossible that there can be that separation of one employment from another which naturally takes place when it is more extensive. In a country village, for example, it is altogether impossible that there should be such a trade as that of a porter. All the burdens, which, in such a situation, there can be any occasion to carry from one house to another, would not give full employment to a man for a week in the year." Smith was at the start of his development of his most famous book, The Wealth of Nations. In January of 1751, Smith was appointed professor of ...
- 354: The Industrial Revolution
- ... many years. Then the law caught up with factory owners, and the tragic conditions were done away with through Bills that were being introduced in the parliament to limit the hours and to forbid the employment of very young children. (Light 3). The Industrial Revolution affected many other kinds of manufacture besides textiles. For the making of machines, tools, and engines, huge ironworks became necessary, and these used new methods (Derry ... the Industrial Revolution changed more than the geography of England. It changed the living habits and economic conditions of almost all the English people as well (Williams 29). Families everywhere moved to cities to get employment. Country villages were deserted. The cities grew by leaps and bounds. Now that waterpower was no longer necessary, towns grew up far from rivers (Derry 42). Under the new industrial ownership men grew enormously rich ...
- 355: Harry S. Truman 2
- ... established to preserve peace. Thus far, he had followed his predecessor's policies, but he soon developed his own. He presented to Congress a 21-point program, proposing the expansion of Social Security, a full-employment program, a permanent Fair Employment Practices Act, and public housing and slum clearance. The program, Truman wrote, "symbolizes for me my assumption of the office of President in my own right." It became known as the Fair Deal. Dangers and ...
- 356: Son of Dallas Cop Says Dad Was 1 of 3 Who Shot Kennedy
- ... burglary. The FBI informed the committee of the existence of the photo. The matter was not pursued because committee investigators didn't know about White's past relationship with Oswald or Geneva White's brief employment at Jack Ruby's Carousel Club. OTHERS FIND OUT Until he discovered the footlocker, Ricky White says he didn't think much about his father or the Kennedy assassination. He grew up in Dallas and ... this guy worked for us and that CIA had any role in the assassination of President Kennedy - are ludicrous." Roscoe White never worked for the CIA, Mansfield said, adding: "normally, we never confirm nor deny employment, but these allegations are so outrageous that we felt it necessary and appropriate to respond." Also Monday, the FBI issued a statement saying its agents had considered the Ricky White story in 1988 and had ...
- 357: Sixteen Most Significant Events in US History between 1789 to 1975
- ... in support of civil rights in the United States. The law banned discrimination because of a person's color, race, national origin, religion, or sex. The rights protected by the act are freedom to seek employment, vote and use parks, restaurants, and other places. The act also forbid discrimination by any program that received funds from the government. In addition, the act authorized the Office of Education to direct school desegregation ... Deal that the laissez-faire policies of the Republicans would be repudiated. World War I had a significant impact on the economy. During the mobilization period, the conversion to a wartime economy resulted in increased employment. However, at the end of the war, the failure of the government to regulate the demobilization period resulted in high unemployment and inflation. This combined with the fact that labor lost many concessions won during ...
- 358: The Goals and Failures of the First and Second Reconstructions
- ... 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 understand that without economic justice Blacks would be forced into a dependency on the White power structure to protect their ... broad 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 poorhousing, 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 ...
- 359: 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 ...
- 360: Georg Cantor
- ... studied mathematics, philosophy and physics. There he studied under some of the greatest mathematicians of the day including Kronecker and Weierstrass. After receiving his doctorate in 1867 from Berlin, he was unable to find good employment and was forced to accept a position as an unpaid lecturer and later as an assistant professor at the University of Halle in1869. In 1874, he married and had six children. It was in that ...
Search results 351 - 360 of 1027 matching essays
|
