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    Comparison between Homestead and Free Patents | Homestead Patent | Free Patent | Definition | A dwelling with adjacent land.A mode of acquiring public land by grant to persons seeking to establish and maintain agricultural homes thereon conditioned upon actual‚ continuous and personal occupancy of the same as a home‚ and the cultivation and improvement of the land. | A mode of acquisition through the confirmation of an imperfect or incomplete title over a parcel of public land suitable for and

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    Strike [Sec. 2 (q)]: Strike means "a cessation of work by a body of persons employed in any industry acting in combination or a concerted refusal under a common understanding of any number of persons who are or have been so employed‚ to continue to work or to accept employment". Mere stoppage of work does not come within the meaning of strike unless it can be shown that such stoppage of work was a concerted action for the enforcement of an industrial demand.  Procedure of Strikes  According to Sec

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    A strike is a form of protest whereby a group of employees withhold labour in order to pressure employers into granting a particular demand. (Cambridge Dictionairies) Causes and effects of strikes in South Africa: Causes - Lack of transformation‚ mutual respect‚ trust‚ and socio-economic equity (SABC‚ 2014). - Dissatisfaction with pay or working and living conditions. Effects - Companies: financial losses‚ reduced productivity‚ profitability and market share‚ and delayed service delivery. Employees:

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    TURZAR‚ ALMA F. BSE-B12 THE TEACHER’S STRIKE It was April of 1990 when the teacher’s strike began and ended at the end of May of the same year. The teachers’ strike at our Boystown/ Girlstown in Manila where I studied High School was classified as one of the major crises in the life of the Sisters and our Founder‚ Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz. At first‚ Fr. Al misjudged the situation and treated it as nothing

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    The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was known as the first major walkout in U.S. History that started during the Panic of 1873. The railroad company in a move they thought would slow the bleeding decided that they would make up their lost profits by cutting the workers’ pay by 10% and make them work longer hours. As a result‚ the employees decided to avoid coming to work and eventually set up a blockade at the entrance to not allow any of the others to come through. In support of this act‚ several

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    A monopoly can be defined in many ways. According to the research that I have done‚ a monopoly in my own words is a company or a group that owns all or almost all of the market for only a given type of product or service. Absence of competition is what typically leads to the formation of a monopoly which results in high prices and subordinate products. The history of monopolies itself goes way back to the colonial times. Monopolies are great economic powers that have had positive consequences to

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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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    begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.” Some people think that Carnegie did not have much compassion for the average factory worker. The most notable ‘black mark’ on his resume was the Homestead Steel Strike of 1892 in Homestead ‚ PA. However‚ The violence appalled Carnegie. "The Works are not worth one drop of human blood‚" he wrote.Carnegie had a right hand man‚Henry Frick‚ who did most of Carnegie’s ‘dirty work.’

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    strictly against organized labor‚ and refused to allow union workers at his mines. Frick’s action led to the Homestead Strike of 1892. The strike took place at Carnegie’s steel plant in Homestead Pennsylvania on June 30. It was between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers. Workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel struck Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead‚ Pennsylvania to protest a proposed wage cut. Frick was determined to break the union. He hired three hundred

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    Andrew Carnegie Research Paper Andrew Carnegie was one of Americas most famous entrepreneurs‚ and one of the richest people of his time. Born on November 25th‚ 1835 in Dunfermline‚ Scotland‚ United Kingdom. He then later moved to America‚ possibly was one of the greatest decisions he ever made. He was one of the greatest businessmen‚ philanthropist‚ and made it large in the American economy. Carnegie was involved in the steel industry‚ and was the steel king of his time‚ owning nearly 80% of the

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