Case: Wage and Stonewall Industries Limited

The only competition that did exist was competition among local workers and workers brought in from elsewhere for the positions available at the company. In the neo-classical form of economics, there needs to be some form of labor market to keep the employer-worker relationship in check. In Matewan, there was no alternative source of employment for those who did not wish to work at Stone Mountain. Those who were unhappy with wages or working conditions were not free to leave and seek employment elsewhere in the town. Their only redress was to go on strike. However, by bringing in scab labor when employees decided to take a

Using this case‐based approach, this course is designed to help students attain the following objectives:

Please address each question below with complete sentences and clear, specific explanation. The total word count of your writing should be between 750-1,250 words.

The workers for the Stone Mountain Coal Company were not paid in currency that could be used outside of Matewan; they were paid in company script that could be used only in Stone Mountain owned establishments. By the time the company had

This might be consider creed or against the law now days but at the time there was no law that protect the employees. This helped keep prices low on steel and help builders buy steel for cheap which cause a boom on huge projects like building huge bridges and building like never seen before. With the big boom on building also cause people to move to cities and kept them there because they had steading work. This gave a rise to modern cities all across the United Stated and creating professionals jobs has we see today. “America's emergence as the world's greatest industrial power at the end of the nineteenth century was based on the mass production of steel. In the process of contributing to the transformation of the country's economy, the steel industry itself was transformed. The technological and organizational changes in the American steel industry during the nineteenth century were both causes and effects of an increasingly diverse, rapidly urbanizing industrial society (Carnegie, Andrew)."

1. Analyze the questions associated with your chosen case study and discuss them using concepts you learned in this course.

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Directions: Read the case study below and complete the questions at the end. You will form small groups in class to collaborate and produce your final answer.

Directions:  Answer each question in a paragraph—be sure to give specific details and examples.  Remember that each of these questions has multiple parts to it.  You must type your responses out and hand it to me by the end of our class period.

Bonnie Green, Chief Estimator, agreed that in a normal year only slight delays might develop due to a shortage of labor. However, she pointed out that for such a large project, the company would have to use unionized employees and that the construction industry labor agreements with New York City were to expire on October 30, 2004. Past experience and current construction activity in the surrounding area indicated that any union tradesman would support a strike against the city. Since this is a public project, she estimates that there is a 50% chance that they would strike this project to gain the attention of the national media.

Type the answers to the assignment's questions. Use complete sentences unless the question says otherwise. You will have more than one day to complete an assignment. At the end of each day, be sure to save your progress.

1. Page 355 in the text: Questions for Thought and Discussion: Questions 5, 9, and 11

IN AT LEAST 150 TO 350-WORDS, WRITE AN ESSAY RESPONDING TO THE DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING THREE QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS:

listed below. Discuss your responses. Note that some of these questions may not be consistent

RL Wolfe operates two other plants with unionized workforce. The union contracts at these plants have workers in two divisions: production and maintenance. The maintenance personnel were paid a higher wage than production personnel, and workers lack the flexibility to work across divisions even when simple intervention would prevent shut down of the extrusion line.