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    Around the 1880s to the 1910s the work for lower and middle class citizens were awful, from finding a job, to the conditions of it, to how hard it was to keep it. This was a huge factors in the starting of the era known as the progressive era. Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle, describes very well the problems Americans had to deal with in order to survive. This book is great because it is very hard to find any other newspaper or book on the conditions they had to go through. Many would say that

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    How the Rich Benefit from the Poor this paper has problems with formatting The United States is the most developed capitalist economy in the world. The markets within the economy provide profit-motivated companies endless potential in the pursuance of pecuniary accumulation. Throughout the twentieth-century competitive companies have implemented modernized managerial procedures designed to raise profits by reducing unnecessary costs. These cost-saving procedures have had a substantial effect

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    Paid Paternal Leave and the United States Part One: Problem Statement/Background The women 's rights movement in the 1960s made one of the most monumental accomplishments of gaining equal opportunities in the workplace with the Equal Pay Act guaranteeing women “equal pay for equal work” as their male counterparts. Although this opened doors for women to have the same opportunities in the workforce as men it didn 't, however, address the fact that women would most likely work during pregnancy and

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    overturned from within our labor force, where equality has been masked by unfairness, discrimination, and greed. Equality in relation to work is an undertaking for equal compensation, equal opportunity, and equal treatment in order to pursue a more fair and balanced work place. The systematic definition of equality is described as "the quality or state of being equal" (Merriam Webster). The fight for equality first started during the 1960's when the Civil Rights Movement was introduced with a goal

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    Why did so many immigrants leave home? What were their expectations? From where? Many Europeans decided to come to America for many reasons. All of them, immigrated because the European continent was living in a bad economic and religious situation. America experienced a massive immigration that occurred from around 1800s to 1900s. Most of these newcomers came from Northern and Western Europe. Many came from Ireland and Germany, which experienced a massive potato famine in the mid-19th century. Some

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    1. Conflict theory suggests that inequality and the struggle over resources, different interests, and different values shape society. How does conflict theory help explain sweatshops and labor rights violations? The conflict theory helps to explain sweatshops and labor rights violations in more ways than one. Sweatshops are a result of the struggle over resources. In this case, it is more often money than any other resource. Corporations who turn to sweatshops do this in order to increase profit

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    This spawned the birth of some of the first instances where gender and social class barriers were blurred in the United States due to the necessity for a working class to fulfill the role as the country’s labor backbone. Specifically, in fictional works of the 19th century, I have focused on novels that have best demonstrated this breaking of barriers from the perspective of those who lived during this period. For example, in Little Women, the novel is focused

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    Offshoring Benefits

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    Many business executives believe "offshoring" to be the destiny of any company that wants to remain competitive. Labor costs can be reduced by 25-30% or more, and companies across the country are doing it. How can responsible corporate officers not consider the offshoring option for their companies? But what are the real benefits and the pitfalls of offshoring? When does it make sense to pursue outsourcing, and how can you safely take advantage of lower cost resources in other countries without risk

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    Throughout the past decades, child labor has been a controversial issue. The term “Child labor” is defined as work or employment done by the children against the national and international laws. Light and limited work is not a part of the child labor. But heavy and over-work in early age effect their health and safety and their growth. It also deprived them of the education. Children used to work at factories, fields, domestic work and the service sector in the 20th century. Poverty and the industrial

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    Essay #3: Labor is not a simple construct. It is made up of a multitude of people with unique background and traits. While these people worked hard, it was not always easy to be treated justly. Many important events arose along labor’s growth in the United States encompassing identifiers such as race, class and gender. These different areas are an integral part of labor and will continue to be. Most of these identities overlap at certain points but it is worth mentioning them separately as each

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