Essays Tagged: "trade unions"

Benjamin Disraeli: An Analytical Comparison of the Victorian Age Intellectual with Contemporaries Charles Dickens and Thomas Carlyle

uch as expanding suffrage to all taxpaying men, improving health facilities and practices, housing, trade unions, but most importantly, humanizing the working and living conditions of the lower-class ...

(4 pages) 67 0 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

the son of capt.a o'neill capt.terence o'neil and the role he played as p.m. of northern ireland.

to attract investment to the ailing shipbuilding and linen industries, to forge new links with the trade unions, to bring Protestants and Catholics into working relationships, and to end sectarianism ...

(7 pages) 46 0 3.0 May/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

Are trade unions in Australia becoming unnecessary?

fellow colleagues of the ACTU. We are having this conference today to discuss the recent decline in trade union membership. As you know, many things influence membership and we need to take drastic me ... p. As you know, many things influence membership and we need to take drastic measures to revive the trade union movement in Australia. If trade unions don't strive for economic liberation, who will? W ...

(7 pages) 182 1 3.8 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Consultative Report discussing the implications of current Employment Law with regards to Collective Consultation.

1.INTRODUCTION32.THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ACT (1999)33.THE INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION DIRECTIVE44.TRADE UNIONS65.WHAT EFFECT WILL THE REGULATIONS AND LEGISLATIONS HAVE?76.CONCLUSIONS97.RECOMMENDATIO ... of this report, the industry being advised is the Health Service, which at present recognizes many Trade Unions locally varying on the type of service being covered. The report discusses the relevant ...

(12 pages) 204 0 4.5 Aug/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Caribean women.

reak of strikes and riots from Belize to Jamaica in the 1930s. In the absence of legally recognised trade unions, and denied the right to participate in government, working-class people used violent a ... or the right of all women to vote and the reduction in the property qualification for the franchise.TRADE UNIONSThe majority of unions emerged out of the labour struggles of the 1930s in which women w ...

(12 pages) 103 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Global Labor Union Climate.

ows the consistent growth of the unionized labor market. Based on this study, workers who belong to trade unions earn higher wages, work fewer hours, receive more training, have longer job tenure, tha ... nd the current interest in labor standards around the world is the rapid expansion of international trade. As globalization proceeds, differences in labor standards between countries and regions becom ...

(3 pages) 246 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Does the continued development of Human Resource Management mean the end for trade unions?

evelopment of human resource management has brought about in the organisation with the emergence of trade unions in comparison to the effect from industrial relations. The unitarist approach of the hu ... pluralist approach by the industrial relations will be highlighted in our study in the survival of trade unions in the organisation.HRM refers to the policies and practices one needs to carry with th ...

(6 pages) 380 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Account for the Rise of New Social Movements and Evaluate their Impact on Modern British Politics

features which separate NSMs from OSMs.While OSMs tend to represent working class alliances such as trade unions, focus more on economic change and tend to be class based organisations; NSMs are more ... ment, women's liberation and student power instead of materialistic issues like economic growth and trade unions.

(4 pages) 68 1 2.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

How World War Two changed Japan between 1945 and 1990

d was redistributed in favor of former tenants and workers were assured of their rights to organize trade unions and to strike. At the top of Macarthur's agenda was demilitarization as it spread to ev ... rnational organizations which enabled the country to participate in free multilateral international trade. By the mid-1960s Japan had become economically strong enough to compete successfully in the o ...

(5 pages) 90 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

North America, 1920's Economical Boom.

of money for an industrial worker. As a result of the payment the workers were expected not to join trade unions and follow the strict company rules. By 1926 Ford was building a Model T car every 10 s ...

(1 pages) 44 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Industrial relations

s and working conditions for their employees, it has created the need to have organisations such as trade unions to negotiate on behalf of the workers. However, other organisations and the government ... ncy, parental status, breastfeeding, age, race, impairment, religion, political belief or activity, trade union activity, lawful sexual activity, association with or relation to a person of any of the ...

(10 pages) 309 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Why has trade union membership shrunk so dramatically in the past twenty five years? Will this continue?

Trade unions flourished in Australia throughout most of the 20th century, particularly in the 1920s ... nciliation and arbitration system was merely to settle disputes that extended beyond state borders. Trade unions then saw it as an opportunity to increase union members. Thus many unions are formed to ... by the 1996 Workplace Relations Act. The sole purpose of it was to eliminate the very existence of trade unions. The Act was for individual contracts to replace union-negotiated award agreements, and ...

(8 pages) 270 0 3.4 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Causes of Industrial Revolution

ople like Mr. Mill and Marx and Engels emerge and people took steps to get their demands fulfilled. Trade unions started forming and the state had to finally step in and recognize the worker's needs. ... there was hope for a better future. This made many of the workers aroused to take some action; many trade unions were formed due to this. The factory owners seeing the harm that could be done by them ...

(5 pages) 45 0 0.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

George Orwell - The animal farm - i discuss the themes involved in it, and the true meaning of the novel

industry or occupation, sometimes these awards supplemented by industrial agreements negotiated by trade unions and employers or employer organisations. Another method of wage determination is Indivi ...

(2 pages) 30 0 4.8 Aug/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Uses of Public Relations, citing 2 examples

into harmony. Public relations serve a wide variety of institutions in society such as businesses, trade unions, government agencies, voluntary associations, foundations, hospitals, schools, colleges ...

(5 pages) 220 0 2.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Trade untions in australia

Both trade unions and wage determination are subject to much debate concerning rights and responsibilitie ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Wage determination and trends in australia

industry or occupation, sometimes these awards supplemented by industrial agreements negotiated by trade unions and employers or employer organisations. Another method of wage determination is Indivi ...

(2 pages) 46 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Women in the Wars

war. There was an increase in the provision of childcare, as more women went out to work. However, trade unions insisted that women should only replace men during the War, and afterwards many women l ...

(2 pages) 28 0 3.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

HR Roles and Responsibilities

companies to implement HRM in their management system were HP and IBM who consequently did not have trade unions practices implemented into their companies (Guest, 1989).Storey (1995) describes HRM as ... eferencesGUEST, D. (1989). Human resource management: its implications for industrial relations and trade union. In STOREY, J(Ed). New Perspectives on Human Resource Management, London: Routledge, p. ...

(5 pages) 277 0 3.8 May/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Anarchism vs. Capitalism

ialists. To-day for instance there are Anarchist organizations of over 10,000 members that are also trade unions in Sweden and Spain. There are many other organizations with memberships in the hundred ... cluded Anarchists, Marxists and others. At the same time in the USA Anarchists were involved in the trade unions. Indeed when the Haymarket martyrs were executed in the 1880's for fighting for the eig ...

(6 pages) 35 0 0.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government