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Labor aristocracy
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Labor Party
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United States Department of Labor
United States Department of Labor federal executive department established in 1913 and charged with administering and enforcing statutes that promote the welfare of U.S. wage earners, improve their working conditions, and advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Before gaining... Read more |
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American Federation of Labor
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR (AFL) The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was originally founded in 1881 as the Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions. Trade union leaders representing some fifty thousand members in the United States and Canada formed the group in Pittsburgh,... Read more |
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American Labor Party
AMERICAN LABOR PARTY AMERICAN LABOR PARTY (ALP), formed in July 1936 as the New York State branch of the Nonpartisan League. Circumstances specific to New York—a Tammany machine unsympathetic to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and.... Read more |
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Labor market
ACADEMIC LABOR MARKETS The process by which colleges and universities acquire qualified applicants and hire faculty members, and by which academics seek and gain academic employment, is known as the academic labor market. Few general elements characterize the academic labor market. Depending on... Read more |
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Labor Day
Labor Day holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. In most other countries—and among the leftists in the United States... Read more |
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Coalition of Labor Union Women
COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN COALITION OF LABOR UNION WOMEN (CLUW). Over three thousand women from fifty-eight unions formed the Coalition of Labor Union Women in Chicago on 23 March 1974. The coalition was founded by Olga M. Madar, the first woman to be international vice president of the... Read more |
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Histadrut
HISTADRUT Israeli federation of labor. The Histadrut Read more |
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War Labor Board
WAR LABOR BOARD The War Labor Board (WLB) was a federal executive branch office that had authority to settle all labor disputes that could interfere with domestic industrial production during World War II (1939–1945). Established within the Office of Executive Management on January 12,... Read more |
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Religion
Religion. As the twentieth century...representatives of nonwestern religions in accounts that traditionally...or supplanted authentic religion. The one exception to academic...Nineteenth Century. The reach of religion was most evident in the nineteenth...and ... |
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Eddy, Sherwood
...in the Orient, the Near East, and Russia, whose books include India Awakening (1911); The New World of Labor (1923); Religion and Social Justice (1928); The Challenge of Russia (1930); A Pilgrimage of Ideas (1934) and I Have Seen... |
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Assimilation
...generation's discovery of religion as a permissible version of...Americanization Movement; Immigration; Labor Movements; Nativist Movement; Religion; Sixties, The; Sociology...American Life: The Role of Race, Religion, and National |
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Theory of the Leisure Class, The
...controlling society's surplus labor, work became a badge of...their freedom from productive labor. The habit of “conspicuous...shaped morality, aesthetics, religion, education, and marital...to romanticize preindustrial labor, and his arcane vocabulary... |
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Employment Discrimination
...workplace had not been systematically addressed. Title VII prohibits employers and labor unions from discriminating against employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It establishes an administrative agency, the Equal... |
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Secularization
...century America, the strength of religion seemed to be waning, as...demographic changes, and labor movements upsetting traditional...reformers attempted to reinvigorate religion in the immigrant cities through...and practice, suggested that religion played ... |
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Working‐Class Life and Culture
...race and ethnicity, gender, religion, region, and type of employment all...artisanal republicanism and its labor theory of value to proclaim productive labor of the kind they themselves performed...associations and, later, the first labor unions.Economic ... |
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Shakerism
...vigorous work ethic, and abundant labor. They were noted for both agricultural...Shakers influenced American religion and culture to a degree beyond...entrepreneurs. Even Shaker religion enjoyed renewed respect as...twentieth century ended.See also Religion; ... |
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Hughes, Charles Evans
...shared a devotion to their religion, and to their prized only...education, hard work, and religion. Early Career Hughes entered Madison University...employer arguments that protective labor legislation interfered with...Due Process, Substantive; Labor). ... |
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Rutledge, Wiley Blount, Jr.
...administrative law, National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications...Guaranty Trust v. York (1945); labor law, Elgin, Joliet & Eastern...areas of freedom of speech and religion. When Rutledge joined the...requirement as a violation of labor ... |
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Chavez, César Estrada
...he returned to California and began to organize migrant farm labor. In 1962 he created the National Farm Workers' Association...reputation by his preoccupation with faith healing and holistic religion. An abundance of labour also reduced the UFW's bargaining... |
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RELIGION, LABOR JOIN FORCES UNDER NEWLY FORMED MADISON COALITION.(Front)
The lines between religion and labor blurred this Labor Day weekend...congregations. ``Virtually every religion has a strong social justice...times those components of the religion are not emphasized enough...emphasis to those aspects of ... |
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Religion, Labor tap new energy as allies.(interfaith committee seeks justice...
...as its purpose -- joining religion to the cause of labor. In the early '90s, Kim Bobo...Cincinnati native who holds a BA in religion from Barnard College and an...And rebuilding some of those religion-labor ties." Time for a... |
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Laboring for justice: what's happening in the religion-and-labor movement?...
...George Higgins, the great "labor priest," died May 1 in his...one of the most loved of the labor priests. He directed the social...building partnerships between religion and labor. In the last five...increased dramatically. Local ... |
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A worker justice reader; essential writings on religion and labor.(Brief...
...reader; essential writings on religion and labor. Interfaith Worker Justice...on the crisis for US workers, religion-labor history, what our religious...and the ethics of work, and the religion-labor movement today. Some... |
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LABOR RELIGION; Religious and labor groups are collaborating to an extent not...
...mitzvah, Nancy Goldman got religion. Despite being secretary...growing number of Twin Cities labor advocates and people of faith...faith and labor issues. "Religion and labor share deeply held...partnerships, saying that ... |
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Shared values link labor and religion.(Religion)
...COLE The major religions of the world and the American labor movement share...fundamental values. Religion and labor celebrate...Virtually every major religion has policy or doctrine...most other major religions have very ... |
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Labor movement, religions to celebrate holiday together
This Labor Day weekend won...involved in 1997. "Religion and labor share a...If the people in labor do a good job (delivering...in people who feel labor is not doing what...Angeles helped him find religion. Now Shifren offers... |
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Labor, religion told to seek closer ties
Organized labor and religion, once united in a quest for workplace...friendship between organized labor and religion," said Ed Marciniak, president of...Renewing Old Friendships: A Meeting of Religion and Organized Labor," ... |
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NSW: Rudd wants religion and Labor politics mix
...News (Australia) 10-02-2006 NSW: Rudd wants religion and Labor politics mix Labor frontbencher KEVIN RUDD is calling on Australian...Christianvalues .. and says Christians have a place in the Labor party as much as in the conservativeparties. AAP... |
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Kingdom Work: Religion & Labor.(Brief Article)
...faith that helps guide me in my work as a labor leader and organizer. Perhaps more important...skeptics with whom I work in organized labor the power of faith as a motivator and sustainer...wealth, who will be left to speak up when labor standards such as health and safety ... |
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