Socialist Ideology (a)The origins and principal tenets of the socialist thought. Before the Industrial Revolution Britain was an agrarian society with approximately 90% of the population living in the rural areas. Most people worked in the field as farmers and farmhands on land owned by a small minority (Aristocrats). During this time‚ the manufacturing of goods such as textile was a slow process because everything was done by hand. However‚ a series of innovations changed the way people lived
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After Reconstruction‚ the makeup of American life changed dramatically with the Second Industrial Revolution. The Second Industrial Revolution was driven by rise of the patented inventions and the formation of corporations. Many of these corporations were bought out by a few wealthy men to form trusts. These trusts such as the Carnegie Steel Company and Standard Oil Company were essentially monopolies that controlled the economy and politics. This rise of big business from 1870 to 1900 was achieved
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to reduce costs and this strike spread to 11 states creating a national strike made of 500‚000 people. • National Labor Union (1866) was the first attempt to organize all workers in all states – both skilled and unskilled‚ both agricultural and industrial workers. NLU also had many reforms such as the 8-hour work day. • Knights of Labor (1869) was a 2nd national labor union which began as a secret society in order to avoid detection by employers and went into public in 1881 and lost popularity/membership
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The Prison Industrial Complex in America The main goal of private prisons is to make profit disregarding the necessities of the inmates. Privatization provides bad health services to the inmates‚ lack of opportunities to get an education‚ undertrained staff‚ insecurity‚ and a high recidivism rate. The United States has the largest incarceration rate in the entire world‚ and this is due to the prison-industrial complex (PIC). The more defendants are sent to private prison‚ the more profit they and
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Industrial Development Since Independence. 1. The British regarded India as source of supply of raw materials and market for British manufacturers and hence‚ at the time of Independence‚ India was industrially an underdeveloped economy. 2. The poor industrial sector was domintaed by consumer goods industries like cotton textile‚ jute‚ sugar‚ salt‚ paper‚ soap‚ etc. 3. Industries producing intermediate goods like steel‚ coal‚ cement‚ alcohol‚ power‚ non-ferrous metals were poorly established in
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Industrial Electronics‚ 23-2 Industrial Electronics‚ Inc. is an electronic equipment company that has annual sales exceeding $ 8 Billion. The company is set up by product line and operates as 16 divisions‚ reporting to four business managers. Unfortunately‚ due to the recession and the competiveness of the emerging and developing industry‚ the bonus pool for the employees has decreased causing issues with employee morale‚ and can overall affect the profitability of the organization if the company
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The Industrial Revolution occurred in Britain during the mid-18th to the early 19th century. One of the most poisonous and dangerous jobs in the Industrial Revolution was matchmaking where workers would dip the ends of match sticks into a hazardous chemical called phosphorus. The prime candidates to complete the job of matchmaking were young girls aged 4-16 years old who were known as ‘match girls’. These children worked‚ making matches‚ from 6:00 in the morning to almost 10:00 at night and were
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MALAYSIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Definition Systems that encourage industrial harmony It is for the regulation of relations between employers and workmen or employees and their trade union and the prevention and settlement of trade disputes. Focus on 3 aspects: – – – Relation between employer and union Employment law Discipline procedures and terminating service contract Importance of IR One of the important aspects in human resource management To create a harmonious relation
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Industrial Relations or Labour Relations is an expression used not only for relationships between employers and Trade Unions‚ but also for those involving Government with the aim of defining policies‚ facing labour problems. The concept of industrial relations has a very wide meaning and connotation. In the narrow sense‚ it means that the employer‚ employee relationship confines itself to the relationship that emerges out of the day to day association of the management and the labour. In its wider
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body as “criminal”‚ the prison industrial complex impacts the livelihood and daily activities that black individuals partake in (38). This is a clear fact due to the statistics that support the fact that black individuals find acquiring proper education and employment within society increasingly difficult‚ due to the negative perceptions that society holds towards the black community. These negative perceptions have been created and supported by the prison industrial complex through the degradation
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