REPORT (Task 1) by: Claudia Chan Qian Nee Year 11 Virtue Reported to: Mr. Raymond Reported by: Claudia Chan Date: 18th February 2013 In this report‚ it will explain how our group came up with the idea of our project and why did we chose this as our project. I believe that every entrepreneur possess their own qualities and skills. Each of us in our team possessed our very own entrepreneurial skills and that benefits our team by combining all the skills together and coming up our project.
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wages‚ better conditions‚ public education for kids‚ an end to debtor prisons * 1830s to 40s: Labor strikes * At risk of prosecution * Most causes lost because it’s illegal! * Employers fought back with “scabs” * Labor will always be against immigration – cheap unskilled labor * By 1830: circa 30‚000 trade unionists * By 1835 only 24 recorded strikes
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The cattle industry from the 1860s through the 1890s went through growths‚ declines‚ and changes; a dynamic industry characterized by hard work‚ long cattle drives‚ and the development of ranching‚ but also racial discrimination towards Native-Americans. It was made possible by the construction of railroads‚ and led to the creation of “cow towns”‚ isolated towns located in an area where there was a lot of raising of cattle. The cattle industry began in southern Texas with Mexican ranchers developing
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During a time period of great advancement in technology‚ the late 19th century could appropriately dub itself as an industrial revolution. Rapid transformations of the work-place worsened working conditions and prompted the common laborer to join forces with others in order to create labor unions. Although these unions were fueled with excellent intentions and driven by exasperated motivation‚ these organizations did little to improve the working conditions during this particular time frame. It
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whole function by allowing them to go from raw wool to the finished clothing and‚ therefore‚ the Lymansville Mill would be able to operate even when profits were very slim‚ unlike the non-integrated mills of the time. However‚ Peck failed to realize that integration had always been a part of the Lymansville Mill‚ as Albert Sack had set the factory up to produce finished garments‚ and as such‚ these changes did very little to modernize the operations of the mill. This huge investment came at the decline
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effective in evoking a meaningful change. Though labor unions‚ railroad strikes‚ and factory reforms made a valiant effort to initiate a meaningful change‚ it proved to be ineffective at reforming the labor
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history. East London‚ Essex‚ on June 8 1968‚ 187 women machinist’s workers when on strike for equality. They went on strike for three weeks‚ the ford plant at which they worked at had to stop production‚ of the product due to the lack of sew seats. They were successful in getting rid of their lower rates of pay. It was only when Barbara Castle the employment minister came in to negotiate a settlement. In a result of the strike the equal pay act of 1970 was made‚ but was effective in 1975. This film shows
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Bessemer and Open-Hearth Steel. Pittsburgh‚ PA‚ 1903. Print. Wall‚ Joseph F. Andrew Carnegie. United States: Oxford UP‚ 1970. Print. Winkler‚ John K. Incredible Carnegie. New York‚ NY: Vanguard‚ 1931. Print. Wolff‚ Leon. Lockout Story of the Homestead Strike in 1892. New York‚ NY: Harper and Row‚ 1965. Print
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Breach of contract Strike action clearly constitutes a breach of contract. Industrial action short of a strike is less straightforward. This will commonly take the form of a refusal to perform full normal duties. Where these are expressly required by the contract‚ employees will clearly be in breach. However‚ the contractual position is less straightforward where such duties are implied into the contract rather than expressly included. In Sim v Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council [1986] IRLR
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“Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape that they seem the inevitable conductors of the power about them...great trees more likely to be struck by lightning than a clump of grass. Conductors may of course be instruments as well as victims of the divine lightning.” Tragic heroes are characters of notoriety; held in high regard but are struck with misfortune through their own error. The most noble of men can succumb to their own flaws until driven to the brink of insanity
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