Carroll Wright and Labor Reform
Carroll Wright and Labor Reform

Author: James Leiby

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780674098008

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Contemporaries of Carroll D. Wright (1840-1909) lived through the transformation of American society by the industrial revolution. For the most part they thought the transformation represented growth and progress, but many also found occasion for doubt and fear in its consequences. Their anxieties collected around the notions of a "labor problem" and "labor reform." Whether from hope or fear, people felt a need for statistical information. On this popular demand Wright built his career as statistical expert and renowned master of "labor statistics." His investigations during thirty-two years of government service (1873-1905) gave form to contemporary ideas and set precedents for modern procedures, as in his seminal studies of wages, prices, and strikes. In telling how Wright took up this unprecedented career, Mr. Leiby shows the importance of Wright's early years and relates his work to the politics and religion of his time as well as to its social science. In this perspective, the history of the labor bureaus and their voluminous reports take on their original human purposes and meaning.

Monthly Labor Review
Monthly Labor Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13:

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

Author: John D. Buenker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-14

Total Pages: 1412

ISBN-13: 1317471687

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Spanning the era from the end of Reconstruction (1877) to 1920, the entries of this reference were chosen with attention to the people, events, inventions, political developments, organizations, and other forces that led to significant changes in the U.S. in that era. Seventeen initial stand-alone essays describe as many themes.

Behavioral and Social Science
Behavioral and Social Science

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 1986-02-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0309035880

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In 1933, President Herbert Hoover commissioned the "Ogburn Report," a comprehensive study of social trends in the United States. Fifty years later, a symposium of noted social and behavioral scientists marked the report's anniversary with a book of their own from the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. The 10 chapters presented here relate the developments detailed in the "Ogburn Report" to modern social trends. This book discusses recent major strides in the social and behavioral sciences, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, and linguistics.

State-making and Labor Movements
State-making and Labor Movements

Author: Gerald Friedman

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780801423253

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This study of the evolution of labour movements in the US and France from 1876 to 1914, illuminates the turn to syndicalism in France and craft unionism in the USA, and the impact each form of unionization had on the shaping of the French and the US states.

Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer
Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

Author: Thomas Adam

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1785271660

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"Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer" presents a collection of compelling case studies in the areas of social reform, museums, philanthropy, football, nonviolent resistance and holiday rituals such as Christmas that demonstrate key mechanisms of intercultural transfers. Each chapter provides the application of the intercultural transfer studies paradigm to a specific and distinct historical phenomenon. The chapters not only illustrate the presence or even the depth and frequency of intercultural transfer, but also reveal specific aspects of the intercultural transfer of phenomena, the role of agents of intercultural transfer and the transformations of ideas transferred between cultures thereby contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms of intercultural transfers.

Communities of Journalism
Communities of Journalism

Author: David Paul Nord

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780252026713

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Widely acknowledged as one of our most insightful commentators on the history of journalism in the United State, David Paul Nord offers a lively and wide-ranging discussion of journalism as a vital component of community. In settings ranging from the religion-infused towns of colonial America to the rrapidly expanding urban metropolises of the late nineteenth century, Nord explores the cultural work of the press.

Capital, Labor, and State
Capital, Labor, and State

Author: David Brian Robertson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780847697298

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Capital, Labor, and State is a systematic and thorough examination of American labor policy from the Civil War to the New Deal. David Brian Robertson skillfully demonstrates that although most industrializing nations began to limit employer freedom and regulate labor conditions in the 1900s, the United States continued to allow total employer discretion in decisions concerning hiring, firing, and workplace conditions. Robertson argues that the American constitution made it much more difficult for the American Federation of Labor, government, and business to cooperate for mutual gain as extensively as their counterparts abroad, so that even at the height of New Deal, American labor market policy remained a patchwork of limited protections, uneven laws, and poor enforcement, lacking basic national standards even for child labor.

The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900
The Roots of American Bureaucracy, 1830-1900

Author: William E. Nelson

Publisher: Beard Books

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1587982846

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This innovative book argues that the mugwump reformers who built early bureaucracies cared less about enhancing government efficiency than about restraining the power of majoritarian political leaders in Congress and the executive branch.

Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers

Author: Theda Skocpol

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995-03-15

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 9780674717664

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Instead, the nation nearly became a unique maternalist welfare state as the federal government and more than forty states enacted social spending, labor regulations, and health education programs to assist American mothers and children. Remarkably, as Skocpol shows, many of these policies were enacted even before American women were granted the right to vote. Banned from electoral politics, they turned their energies to creating huge, nation-spanning federations of local women's clubs, which collaborated with reform-minded professional women to spur legislative action across the country.