Industrial Paternalism: The Company Town ABSTRACT: Industrial Paternalism has had an impact on the way that unions are viewed in today’s society. The early 1900’s saw many Company Towns used by companies to control their workers both in their workplace‚ as well as‚ their personal lives. This paper reviews the definition of Paternalism and Industrial Paternalism in the early 1900’s mining industry. It reviews notable events that materialized due to these conditions and concludes by examining
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In February 1938‚ during the Great Depression‚ Our Town opened on Broadway‚ Tappen Wilder in the afterword states‚ “in spite of mixed reviews when the box-office opened Saturday morning there were 26 people in line; the line continued all day‚ the police had to close it for ten minutes so the audience could get into the matinee” (Wilder‚ 114). Even with continued mixed reviews of Our Town‚ the play itself has remained popular throughout cultures with multiple runs not only on Broadway and foreign
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its people Maycomb is a small town in Alabama in the 1930s. The town has a pretty nasty racial divide. Blacks are still considered as a lower level than the whites. The small urban and isolated town makes characters feel that days feel longer. ‘’A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry‚ for there was nowhere to go‚ nothing to buy and no money to buy it with‚ nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.’’ The setting of this town will affect its citizens in
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City VS Small Town Are you into living the fast paced life or more of the laid back kind of style? How about going to town knowing everyone you see? There’s many differences between a small town and a city‚ along with many similarities‚ too. In a city everything is constantly fast paced and so many people trying to be everywhere at one time. Personally‚ I think they’re so cluttered and frustrating. A small town will never have traffic and you can get where you’re going without stopping at twenty
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In Ghost Town‚ No One Lives Alone The phrase “no man is an island” is a well-known saying that can take on different forms and meanings depending on the context. An article by Nesbitt (2011) provides an explanation of its origin and what it was basically supposed to convey. He said that the phrase was first written by the English poet John Donne in his work the Meditation XVII. Post (2006) supplies additional information about the Meditation XVI by stating that it is a part of Devotions upon Emergent
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“A Product of This Town” “A Product of This Town” was a piece that detailed the events surrounding and unfolding from a single event in Jena‚ which caused a hoard of people to descend on the small town. It starts out detailing how the town was a simple town and the thing to do on Saturdays was to drive the “Loop” through the town and just hang out with your friends no matter what their gender or race. One day at the local high school nooses were hung in a tree that had been‚ by tradition‚ the ‘white
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North Country stars Charlize Theron as a female worker at an iron mining company in Northern Minnesota who is sexually harassed and leads a class-action lawsuit against her employer for failing to protect her and other female employees. "What Josey Aimes wants is a decent job so she can put food on the table and take care of her kids. What she gets is threatened‚ insulted‚ ogled‚ fondled‚ belittled‚ attacked and called filthy names. "Take it like a man‚" her callous male boss says. Instead‚ she takes
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lived in the house not a single person went to the house to visit the person or people who last lived there. Not even the family of the one who lived there went to visit. Every one in small town of 750 people thought the house was "haunted". Nobody in the town knew that they lived in the "haunted house" in town. No one knew that anyone lived in the house. The family was getting ready to move to the new house. All the kids were excited about moving to the new house. The family had been
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Oelwein‚ IA is a small town roughly about 4 miles. If you were to look at this town from the sky it would look as though it was separated into quadrants. All of the road runs vertical‚ with a small amount roads typically by the river‚ running off of them. This town isn’t exactly poor or well off. And from the outside looking in‚ it looks as though it could be an ideal small town. “Driving into town from the south‚ you first notice the softening profile of the maples and oaks that fill out the middle
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The Malaysian Government supports the concept by promoting the idea of how CSR helps and contributes to the growth of the country. Prime Minister’s CSR Award and ACCA Malaysia Sustainability Reporting Awards are just a few examples of awards given for good CSR practices. According to CSR WeltWeit‚ the CSR activities in Malaysia focus on education‚ health and environment. Most of Malaysian companies as well as foreign companies offer scholarships and low-interest-rate loans for students to pursue
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