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Author: John Royston Coleman
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe president of Haverford College describes the two months he spent as a laborer and blue collar worker while on a short sabbatical leave.
Author: Kim Townsend
Publisher: Amherst College
Published: 2014-11-25
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0943184177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis first-ever biography of John William Ward, the fourteenth president of Amherst College, explores the roots of his idealism and covers his presidency, his later success in Massachusetts politics, and the events leading up to his eventual suicide. President from 1971 to 1979, Ward served during a tumultuous period in the history of the elite liberal arts college, and in the history of the nation. He presided over the once all-male college's transition to coeducation, worked to support African-American students in their fight for equality and justice, and was arrested for civil disobedience in protest against the Vietnam War. Ward was emblematic of his time. Idealist that he was, he tried to make Amherst College a model of a democratic society. Defeated in ugly battles with the faculty, Ward resigned as president but went on to great success in the rougher world of Massachusetts politics. He made headlines for his leadership of a state commission that spent more than two years investigating corruption in the awarding of building contracts, resulting in the passage of laws that guaranteed reforms. This long-overdue volume is the first complete study of Ward--a self-made man, proof that the American Dream could come true, but who ultimately saw his personal and professional life collapse. It sheds light on Amherst College, on higher education more broadly, on suicide, and on the United States in the 1960s and '70s.
Author: Edmund S Phelps
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780674042117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and the pay of the middle class. No longer able to earn a decent wage in respectable work, many have left the labor force, and the job attachment of those remaining has weakened. For Edmund Phelps, this is a failure of political economy whose widespread effects are undermining the free-enterprise system. His solution is a graduated schedule of tax subsidies to enterprises for every low-wage worker they employ. As firms hire more of these workers, the labor market would tighten, driving up their pay levels as well as their employment.
Author: Douglas A. Harper
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780742519183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reader for a sociology course, reprinting 23 articles from professional journals. They cover work as social interaction, socialization and identity, experiencing work, work cultures and social structure, and deviance at work.
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1002
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stewart Perry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1351313266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoosevelt and Howe is a joint biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of his principal advisors. Louis Howe was not only FDR's first political aide, but the only one who also became an intimate personal friend. Other than Harry Hopkins in the late 1930s, he was the only advisor whom Roosevelt trusted completely to serve his interests without distracting personal ambition or a shadowy private agenda. This book is the story of their separate early lives, of the rare chances which brought them together and of their totally intertwined careers after 1912.
Author: Gerald Mars
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-25
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1351789260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2001. The examples cited in this study of sabotage in the working environment range from sophisticated tricks played in Western factories to natural reactions to inferior or unhealthy working practices in, for example, Malaysia and India. The book contains articles from various contributors which cover numerous topics within the subject including crime and punishment in the factory, employee and organizational sabotage, and management techniques to prevent sabotage.
Author: Arthur B. Shostak
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonograph on mental stress among White men manual workers in the USA - describes stress factors such as unfavourable working conditions, occupational health hazards, low social status, etc., And considers the role of trade unions both as a source of and an antidote to stress. Photographs and references.
Author: Kenneth J. Zahorski
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. Williams Domhoff
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 131725581X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on new archival research, G. Williams Domhoff challenges popular conceptions of the 1930's New Deal. Arguing instead that this period was one of increasing corporate dominance in government affairs, affecting the fate of American workers up to the present day. While FDR's New Deal brought sweeping legislation, the tide turned quickly after 1938. From that year onward nearly every major new economic law passed by Congress showed the mark of corporate dominance. Domhoff accessibly portrays documents of the Committee's vital influence in the halls of government, supported by his interviews with several of its key employees and trustees. Domhoff concludes that in terms of economic influence, liberalism was on a long steady decline, despite two decades of post-war growing equality, and that ironically, it was the successes of the civil rights, feminist, environmental, and gay-lesbian movements-not a new corporate mobilisation-that led to the final defeat of the liberal-labour alliance after 1968.
