The Labor Problem at Jamestown‚ 1607-18 Author(s): Edmund S. Morgan Source: The American Historical Review‚ Vol. 76‚ No. 3 (Jun.‚ 1971)‚ pp. 595-611 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1851619 . Accessed: 02/04/2013 14:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit
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encouraged and helped with timely details during the summer project course. ABSTRACT The summer project work entitled "An Organizational Study and a Study on Labour Welfare Facilities with Special Reference to Prabhuram Mills Ltd‚ Kotta” was objected to study overall welfare facilities existing in the company and effectiveness of those facilities. The validity of any research is based on the systematic method
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Demand for labour in the ‘labour market’ is derived demand. Derived demand occurs when the demand for a factor of production arises from the demand for the output it produces. Therefore the price of labour is determined by the labour market and the forces of demand and supply play a key role in determining the relative wages. The equilibrium wage rate can therefore be defined as the point/price where demand for labour equals the supply of labour. The theory of marginal productivity of labour states
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Introduction The structure-agency debate has raged on since the start of time. As the subject of sociology has progressed through the ages so many issues have arisen. One can only start understanding texts from a sociological point of view if we can understand the structure-agency debate. One example of those texts is taken from the book called The Dirty Work of Democracy written by Altbeker‚ A (2005:Extract from Chapter 4). The chapter chosen follows Captain Louis de Koster through working for
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conditions in factories or even underground mines‚ which often result in accidents. An estimated one million children work in small scale mines in the middle east‚ many have been injured or even killed in the accidents. According to the ILO ( international labour organization) 22 thousand children are killed every year working in hazardous jobs specifically prohibited to children. These working conditions really take a toll on not just their physical development but their mental development‚ not to mention
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crime (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011‚ p. 69). Furthermore‚ Emile Durkheim rejected the notion that crime can be explained by an individual’s biological or psychological factors‚ and he theorized that crime was a normal occurrence in society‚ which he labeled as a social fact (Bohm & Vogel‚ 2011). Therefore‚ Durkheim influenced macrosociological theory by providing insight on the overall aspects of society and crime beginning with social facts. Durkheim defined social facts as social laws or institutions that
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Industrial Relations‚ Labour Productivity and National Development in Nigeria: The Roles of Labour Unions in Nigeria By: Abbas Bashir Department of Geography Modibbo Adama University of Technology‚ Yola E-mail: bashirmafindi@yahoo.com Abstract: The aim of this Paper is to briefly examine historical and conceptual bases of industrial relations and the role of labour unions in the process of national development in Nigeria. In doing so we regard Industrial Relation (IR) as an essential part of management
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famously known theorists are Emile Durkheim‚ Max Weber‚ and Karl Marx. Each studied and viewed social behavior in a way they believed was the way it should be viewed. They developed theories‚ created influential pieces of writings‚ taught how to look at society in a broader prospective‚ and much more. The findings of these men changed the way we look at society today and their contributions to this social science provide alternate ways of understanding it. Emile Durkheim came up with a theory to view
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Labour is the human element in the production process. It is the intellectual and physical effort of people in production. The labour market is a factor market where the demand and supply of labour interact to determine the wage rate and the allocation of labour resources in the economy. The demand for labour is derived form the demand for the goods and services that labour is used to produce. The demand for labour is influenced by the level of economic activity‚ the productivity of labour and relative
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New Labour.’ With respect to the history of politics‚ New Labour’ is a fairly recent description of a change or shift in the Labour party ideology occurring within the last 12 years. It refers to a gradual shift of Labour from political left to a more conservative right wing approach to various issues and in terms of the political spectrum‚ Labour now occupy the middle-to-right area‚ rather than the middle-to-left of the previous Old Labour. The phrase was first coined in a 1994 Labour Party
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