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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"American workers"”.
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Both Sides of the Tracks: Louisville and Nashville Railroad's African -American Workers in Louisville, Kentucky, 1915--1945
… and Nashville Railroad's (L&NRR) African-American workers who lived in Louisville, Kentucky from the early to the mid-twentieth century. Typically restricted to the least desirable positions, these black railroaders were a valuable part of the company's labor supply. As Louisville …
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The specter of Black labor: African American workers in Illinois before the Great Migration, 1847 to 1910
… as laborers. While previous studies on Black workers in Illinois focus heavily on African Americans and their relationship to the larger labor movement of this period, the goal in this project is to view these workers primarily through the lens of the African American experience. By …
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Latino Migrant Labor Strife and Solidarity in Post-Katrina New Orleans, 2005-2007
… exploitation of predominantly Latino migrant workers, transforming working-class Latino newcomers into the newest class of storm victims in post-Katrina New Orleans. In essence, a "rebuild above all else" recovery scenario took hold between 2005-2007 in which immediate reconstruction of the …
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Breakdown in the broker state: The Cio in southern Nevada during World War Ii
… of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) fought a bitter jurisdictional dispute at Basic Magnesium, Incorporated (BMI), a defense plant in southern Nevada. While the CIO concentrated on organizing African-American workers, the AFL colluded with plant …
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Eager and Hungry for Music: The WPA Music Project in New Orleans, 1935-1943
Of the millions of American workers who suffered economically during the Great Depression of the 1930s, musicians in particular fell on hard times. The live music profession had begun to decline even before the onset of the Depression due to the introduction of new acoustic technologies. In 1935, …
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Trump’s Foreign Policy, Authoritarian Populism and Democracy
… new US tariffs had the potential to benefit some American workers, who now faced less competition with imports. But trading partners immediately responded with tariff retaliation, especially against US agricultural exports, which harmed US workers in other parts of the economy. The US agricultural …
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Scope and limitations of a capability-based measure of Job Quality in Central America
… the ‘informal sector size’ or the proportion of workers in ‘informal employment’ give little attention to the intrinsic features of jobs that affect workers’ well-being, thus misleading policy efforts. Validation of alternative and comparable human-centred measures of job quality (JQ) is needed. …
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Cross-Cultural Differences and Intercultural Cooperation in the Context of Change and Uncertainty: Americans and Finns in the Workplace
<p>American and Finnish workers in financial institutions in the United States and in Finland were interviewed in their respective languages to explore cross-cultural differences in response to change and uncertainty in the work place. Changes were explored in the domains of organizational, …
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Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Redevelop a Jim Crow State, 1960-2000
… By breaking down employment barriers to African Americans and opening up the South to new people and ideas, the civil rights movement fostered a new climate for economic policymaking, and a new ecosystem of organizations flourished to promote equitable growth. At first, they sought to create a …
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An investigation of the relationship between the presence of U.S. employees abroad and the changes in the taxation of their foreign earned income
… earned income have any effect on the presence of American employees in foreign countries. The results of prior studies disagree on whether the U.S. income tax law may be used as an incentive to encourage Americans to work abroad. The present research addressed this issue once more using an ex post …
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A Longitudinal Study of Alcohol and Drug Use in the Workplace
… use in the United States are major concerns of American households, as well as of the White House. This dissertation research evaluates alcohol abuse and controlled drug use by American workers in the context of various individual, organizational, and occupational settings. It tests the …
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Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth
Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth" explores three, middle to upper-class white women's responses to wilderness from texts published between 1823 and 1939. Through an exploration of James Fenimore Cooper's heroine Elizabeth Temple in the novel The Pioneers (1823), …
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Economic Revolution From Within: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt And The Emergence Of The National Industrial Recovery Act Of 1933
… everyday citizens. Roosevelt realized that Americans required financial assistance of the federal government when there was an economic downturn or collapse that was beyond their control. Similarly, this dissertation argues that, with the emergence of the NIRA and section 7(a), collective …
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Essays in online labor markets
… to elicit high-bandwidth information about workers. Our experimental design allows us to separate the effect of a costly ordeal vs. the role of information by randomizing whether employers see workers' answers. We find that our ordeal reduced the number of applicants by as much as 29% and …