Frommer's Ireland on Forty-Five Dollars a Day, 94-95

Frommer's Ireland on Forty-Five Dollars a Day, 94-95

Author: George McDonald

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780671866686

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Frommer covers the best of the Emerald Isle--its pubs and guesthouses, its castles and historic homes, its picturesque seaside towns and lush green countryside. Shows budget travelers how to enjoy comfort and style for the least cost.


The Five Dollar Day

The Five Dollar Day

Author: Stephen Meyer III

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1981-06-30

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1438412932

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In 1903, Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company in a small Detroit workshop. Five years later, he introduced the Model T and met with extraordinary commercial success. Between 1910 and 1914, he developed mass production and made the conveyor a symbol of the auto-industrial age. Then, in 1914, Ford acquired an overnight reputation as humanitarian, philanthropist and social reformer; and simultaneously infuriated the business community and stunned social reformers with his announcement of the outrageous Five Dollar Day. More than simply high-wage policy, the Five Dollar Day attempted to solve attitudinal and behavioral problems with an effort to change the worker’s domestic environment. Half of the five dollars represented “wages” and the other half was called “profits”—which the worker received only when he met specific standards of efficiency and home life that accorded with the ideal of an American way of life which the company felt was the basis for industrial efficiency. The unique and short-lived Ford program did not succeed, yet its significance as an early managerial strategy goes beyond the boundaries of success or failure. The Ford Motor Company was uniquely situated in the historical evolution of labor management and industrial technology, and this readable study of that evolution, which highlights the Ford workers, is a chapter in the larger history of labor and work in America. Stephen Meyer III, Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, is one of the new historians who have begun to address the profound social impact of technology on the world of work.


Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers

Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers

Author: Lucille H. Campey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2018-09-08

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1459740866

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The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements. Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set free from the stifling economic and social constraints that held them back in their homeland, they prospered. And yet, strangely enough, they continue to be mourned as victims. In this second book of the Irish in Canada series, Lucille Campey takes on the victim-ridden mythology of destitute Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s. In fact, the Irish influx to Quebec and Ontario began a century earlier. Comprehensive and extensive research has been distilled to produce an informative and lively account of this great immigration saga, whose roots date back to the time of the British Conquest of New France in 1763.