Labor Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

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Human Trafficking

There is a flourishing international trade in human beings. In camps in the jungles and elsewhere, the victims of these “human traders” brutalize, rape and at times kill those who fall prey to them. These groups “service” the needs of businessmen looking to use the cheap labor to maximize their profits (Stoakes, Ranong, and Kelly, 2015). One of the most prevalent forms of the commercial trade in humans is child labor; in places such as Africa, children are used to service the cocoa fields using extremely dangerous implements even in the hands of adults (Food Empowerment Project, 2016). ...

Value calculation is used to determine the exchange value of goods according to the Marx's law of value while price is calculated to determine the same exchange relation but according to the Law of Equal Rate of Profit.

Abstract labor as the only substance of valuenot use value

In capitalism , the capitalist is concerned with the means of production .He purchases the labor power or the capacity of the labor to work. The capitalist doe not have knowledge or interest about the useful labor or the specific use values of the labor. He hired the worker only to produce the commodities that will be exchanged in the market. So ...

Introduction

Both Judith Carney and Rafael Marquese examine the contribution of African Slaves in the development and production of specific cash crops. Carney believes that the production of Rice in South Carolina is as a result of diffusion of agricultural culture from Africa to Americas. She argues that rice production was the culture of the West Africans far before the Portuguese explorers reached Africa in in the 14th century. Rice was the staple food among most of the West African communities. They used the mangrove swamps to create paddies and used canal irrigation to water the rice. The same methodology ...

Introduction

The occupational gender segregation is a strong feature of the labor market globally. This women segregation is a concern to the policy makers. This segregation has led to inefficiency in the economy and prevention of capable people to perform on their occupations better than others do. Women in particular have experienced the act of discrimination and have underestimated from some groups that joined the labor force. Not all women are equally to participate in the labor force. Their participation varies in marital status, social class, race and immigration background, the number and ages of children, education, region, and age. The feminists who ...

Division of labor

It a process whereby people specialize in areas of production in which they are best fitted to work. A British economist of the 17th century Adam Smith is accredited to have developed the modern model of division of labor. He proposed that division of labor has caused greater increase in production than any other factor. (Smith, 1776).This differences are experienced in greater size in more developed nations with more industry and improved technology and they are the major causes of universal opulence in these countries. For example industry is more amenable to division of labor than agriculture causing poor ...

Summary

Minimum wage legislation is a very popular and populist issue. There are both economic and social needs to be addressed in the matter. There are also very highly opposing positions in the discussions.
There are many arguments in favor minimum wage legislation. Perhaps, the most important among them are four rationales: poverty alleviation, reduce wage inequality, employee protection, and economic stimulation. Meanwhile, among the four more important arguments against minimum wage legislation are: increased unemployment, aggravated poverty, increased high school drop-out rate and prolonged unemployment periods, and reduced global competitiveness.
In the light of the present world economic ...

According to modernization theory, also known as evolutionary theory, societies undergo various steps of development; the most advanced being the consumerist society that characterizes Western societies. This implies that societies that are still in their early stages of development, which are common in third world countries, must emulate the Western societies both socially and in the determination of its values. This means that developing societies must discard their traditional values that entrenches religion and family in the center of social life and pursue individualism that is the norm of Western societies (Kendall 259). This theory postulates that this change ...

The Census Bureau projects that the American population will clock to 460 million people in the year 2050 compared to 304 million people in 2008. The increased population will also manifest increased diversity, which means that there will be an increase in Hispanics, African-Americas, Asians, and other non-white groups (McConnell et al. 55). The American population is experiencing a slow aging rate, increased diversity and a slow growth rate. In the year 2000 compared to 1950, the American population is constituted of a diversified, older, and female inclusive labor force (Toossi 15). Toossi expects that the future workforce composition will depend on ...

Conflict between Capitalists and Landlord

There exist diminishing returns to scale in the agricultural production due to the limited amount of land. When the world population increases, then the production of the agricultural production increases while more people are hired in the agricultural production. The surplus is distributed to the landowners (as rent), to the workers (as the wage), and the capital owners (as profit). Under the condition of diminishing returns, the agricultural production cannot increase the surplus to increase the profits, the wages, and the rent. The rent is fixed for the limited amount of land; therefore, the capital owners and the workers ...

What is use value?

According to Marx every commodity has two characters – one is use value and other is exchange value. The use value of a commodity refers to the satisfaction or utility that an individual derives from the use of the commodity.

What is exchange value?

The exchange value of a commodity is the amount of other commodity which is obtained in exchange for one unit of this commodity.

What about money?

Money is the special commodity and functions as universal exchange equivalent.
Relationship between use value and exchange value
Use value means a relation between consumer and object consumed and is a subjective relation. But if a commodity ...

Culture encompasses all spheres of life. It constitutes the building blocks of what a society subscribes to in terms of norms, morals, values, customs, attitudes and beliefs. All these social and cultural factors shape our world views and forms our belief systems as individuals, which, in turn, motivate our behavior. Culture affects our perception of occupations as much as our biological make up does. Due to the cultural diversity that exists between the occupational beliefs of different individuals, it is necessary for employers to understand the concept of occupation equity. This refers to the variability that exist between the standards ...

Introduction

Foxconn Technology Group is a Taiwanese company that manufactures and assembles many products of Apple, including iPad and iPhone in China (Hays, n.pag.). The number of people employed by the company is over 0.1 million. However, the company has been in news recently for being alleged of unethical human resource practices and inappropriate treatment of employees. The objective of this paper is to understand the pros and cons of Foxconn issue through article review.

The paper is divided into four sections. The first section deals with analysis and evaluation of arguments in favour of the issue through an identified article. ...

Introduction

Our company, here in referred to as Greene’s LLC, is suing Jennifer Lawson, a former employee for breaching a confidentiality agreement signed during the course of her employment and subsequently breached after being dismissed from the company. Jennifer Lawson has subsequently countersued Greene’s LLC for wrongful termination.
The substance of the matter is that Jennifer Lawson was summarily dismissed from the company by the HR officer Lisa Peele. Lawson subsequently went on to seek employment from a competitor, Howell Jewelry World, a competitor to Greene’s LLC. The bone of contention for our company is that in ...

In production, when the price of capital changes due to the relative change in labor than capital becomes cheaper and labor dearer. The capitalist then substitute the cheaper one for the costlier one.
Figure 11.4, 11.5,11.6
In the figure 11.4 shows the VMPL curve, which is MPL multiplied by price of the output. The curve is diminishing which shows that the amount capitalist will add to increase his revenue by hiring one more labor at different levels of employment.
The figure 11.5(a) shows that in the labor market the part of the labor that will be employed ...

Abstract

In today’s economic climate, everyone has an opinion about policy reactions to the current world recession and aftermath of the financial crash. I do not see where government austerity has the potential to bring about the immediate changes that stimulus spending would. We are now trapped in a cycle where an unstable economic environment has made liquid assets more valuable than capital investments. This is not going to change until unemployment levels rise and that is not going to happen without capital investments. It is a catch 22. Austerity makes the problem worse, it adds unemployment by cutting programs and ...

Program/Effort information

Objectives

Assessment of whether objectives are achieved

Overall evaluation of the programs/efforts successes

Discrimination in the workplace is a subtle obvious social issue that is pervades our society, but not addressed as a dysfunction. It would appear that normal to refuse an applicant due to their ethnicity, sexual orientation gender or merely the perception of the person conducting the interview. Importantly, it exits also as hindering an employee’s promotional opportunities for reasons other than his/her performance. Rather it could be persons’ cultural orientation or simply dislike from administration due to their specific biases. This presentation addresses workplace discrimination and what ...

The changing conditions in which workers find themselves often results into inconsistencies for the respective organizations with regards to finding workers. As a result, these institutions have to contend with the fact that they will have to deal with such inconsistencies without affecting their productivity levels since the supply and demand of labor will not be predictable in some of the cases. The presentation seeks to advance the current knowledge about the issues surrounding labor and supply using relevant information about the topic (Adler & Adler, 2004).
One of the main points presented in the discussion include the demand and ...

Sustainability has no clear line of definition as it means a lot different things to different people. To some, it could be a way of living with regard to the extent they can bear. Others could define it as the production styles they use in their flow of business, or a business as a whole. It could imply the responses to policies especially in the question of to what extent the environment that should be consumed over time (Ana Markulev, 2013).
Sustainability entails the ability to do an activity continuously. In sustainable development, the current needs are met without affecting the ability ...

Minimum wage can be defined as the lowest daily, hourly, or even monthly payment that employees can legally be given by employers. This is defined as the lowest wage in which employees can sell their labor. It is the statutory remuneration that is fixed by the Agricultural Wages Advisory Board and the General Wages Advisory Board or any other council of any sector which has been established by the ministry of labor. Constitutional minimum wages were suggested in order to control the explosion of different sweat shops and especially in manufacturing industries. Sweat shops were known to employ large ...

Recruiting for Sales Rep in Pharmaceuticals

Labor Markets in Pharmaceutical Industries
The pharmaceutical sales reps often work for medical or drug supply companies. They also sell the pharmaceutical goods to the individual clients or customers in the medical and pharmaceutical industry on the wholesale basis. The positions of most of the representatives are outside the sales variety, always entailing the frequent travels from a single perspective to another. The in-depth knowledge of different pharmaceuticals sold is necessary for the positions held by the sales representatives (Timur, 2006). These individuals or sales reps often have communication skills and often have efficient customer service techniques that assist ...

The federal government in America defines vocational education training (VET) as any preparation that occurs below the baccalaureate level (Rauner & Maclean, 2008, p.296). The roots of vocational education in the US can be traced back to the 19th century, a time when the agrarian revolution was at its pick. Government funding for this programs however was started in the year 1916 (Rauner & Maclean, 2008, p.296).The aims of VET have been altered severally since its conception and they have included the training of people to fill job positions in the country’s rapidly growing economy as well as ...

Employee Resourcing

Employee resourcing entails HR concern with a range of approaches and methods used by the employers for resourcing the organizations in a manner that enables them to meet the key organizational goals. Thus, it involves the staffing including recruitment and selection as well as retention and the dismissal. Also, it involves, performance management including the appraisal as well as the management of employees performance. Further, it involves administration functions such as policy development, documentation, and procedural development as well as management of change (Beardwell, Holden & Claydon, 2004).
However, although there is general agreement regarding what constitutes areas such as ...

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXPANSION

International Business Expansion
The emergence of China as the world’s manufacturing hub happened in a much shorter span of time compared to the time it took for U.S or U.K to industrialize. China took just over a decade to double its GDP per capita and improve the living standards of its people ever since 2001, when it entered the World Trade Organization and opened up its borders welcoming investors from all over the world. There have been a host of favorable factors that made China the global manufacturing hub. Some of them include the abundant availability of cheap ...

Internationalization of the economy, on the one hand, and the uneven development of the countries on the other, led to the fact that labor migration has gained an unprecedented economic and political significance. The economic gap between the countries and the need to balance the geopolitical interests has influenced the migration flows in the developed countries. Over the past few decades, a steady labor migration has led to a new segmentation of the labor market and the allocation of jobs that are taken mainly by migrants.
Global economic development is associated with marginalization of female caregivers, namely the tendency to ...

The official definition of the unemployed persons according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (2009) refers to “persons who did not have a job at all during the survey reference week, made at least one specific active effort to find a job during the prior 4 weeks and were available for work. The official unemployment also includes individuals who have been laid off but are waiting to be called back. It is apparent that this definition excludes other individuals who may not be in employment but do not fit into the either of the above named categories. This definition is limited to ...

Financialization is the process by which financial institutions increase in size and influence on the overall economy by strengthening the country’s financial sector. The process occurs in countries that are perceived to have shifted their economies from industrial capitalism. It has been occurring in the United States and other parts of the world since the 1970s. The process has affected both the macro economy and the micro-economy by changing the manner in which financial institutions are structured and operate in the entire economy.
The United States has experienced high levels of financialization through the loss of manufacturing and ...

The U.S. Based Strategic Warehouse Management (SWM), Inc.’s Supply Chain Design for a Proposed Australian Warehouse Which Includes Warehouse Operations
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The U.S. Based Strategic Warehouse Management (SWM), Inc.’s Supply Chain Design for a Proposed Australian Warehouse

Requirements Needed for the Design of the Australian Warehouse
Gavin Clark, who is the CCO for SaaS warehouse management system provider, Snapfulfil writes in his article, “Ten Tips on Setting Up a Warehouse in 2014” that a warehouse staff will be more “highly motivated if they can locate products/stocks easily, are working in a safe environment” ...

When Europeans arrived in the "New World," they did not find a barren, uninhabited land, but rather large and complex Amerindian societies. The cultural clash that ensued would radically change both Europeans and natives. Although there was widespread collaboration on the part of native Amerindians, such as opportunistic chiefs using Europeans for their own wealth, overall the collision of cultures created more problems for Amerindians than improvements. This is evidenced by the one-sided power relationship where Europeans often exploited Amerindian populations for economic opportunities and a lust for conquest. The contact between Europeans and Amerindians detrimentally transformed native society in the ...

American Airways is one of the largest airports around the world which also means that the company has the largest population of workers. The guerrilla attacks on 11/9/2001 affected the United States airline diligences more than any other diligence. The attack led to loss of workers lives, passenger ridership, and monetary losses. However some of the airlines emerged successful whereas some of the airlines languished. This effect can be associated with the labor relations and unions meant to cater for the welfare of workers. During Mr. Carty’s era as the CEO of the company, he exerted efforts to ...

When purchasing a new apparatus, Companies consider the price of the item, the amount of revenue that the new item can create for the Company eventually, as well as, the scrap value of the new item. Besides, the Company must consider the rate of interest, which the Company uses in computing the present value of the future net income, which can be expected from the new apparatus. The Company will buy the item if the present value is positive, but if the present value is negative, the Company will not purchase the item. Similarly, the decision to go to college ...

1.Take Notes on Malthus's social concern the struggle between workers, landlords, and capitalists?
Malthus's first writings were in the unrest position of the workers against the landlords, proprietors, and capitalists. The economic system was allowing the wealthy people to receive the most of the revenue, and the labor was in the uncomfortable conditions. Malthus developed his law of population which defended the rich people. According to his law of population, the wealthy groups could get the power in the economy, and that was a natural process in the economy. He was aware of the social welfare issues. He defended ...

The Inside Job is a documentary narrated by Charles Ferguson that gives an analysis of the main events that led to the collapse of Wall Street economy (Riley 3). This documentary focuses on the roles played by both the government and private sector in accelerating the financial meltdown that cost millions of people their jobs, homes, and savings (Marshall 13).

The banking institution forms one of the major private sectors that bear the blame of the financial crisis in the film “The Inside Job”. The film provided a wide range of view on how corrupt the US banking institutions are ...

Introduction

Career choice will affect not only the income and lifestyle, but it will also have significant impact on happiness and self-expression. The labor market is characterized by stringent operating conditions, where there is intense competition between those who want to get the most “profitable” jobs along with the intensity of information flows and the large number of employers. In such circumstances, achieving career goals is impossible without timely developed strategic plan, which is particularly important at the initial stage of the search for “niche market” for the use of professional abilities.
Even if my career is not connected ...

Abstract

This journal examines in details the Elizabethton strike This was a protest of women textile factory workers in Elizabethton ,Tennessee on March 12 ,1929.This strike has since become a very important part of the of the southern Appalachian labor history ,showing women’s distinctive forms of the collective action ,using both gesture and language a points of a culture. Through exceptional description of the sophisticated cultural identity expressed by these striking female workers as depicted in the case of Texas Bill and Trixie Perry ;Association between sexual misbehavior and women’s labor militancy ;Impact the event on other people’s lives. These strikes ...

No doubt, Sally Klingel’s article, “Interest-Based Bargaining in Education,” is much lengthier than Chapter 9 from Robert H. Palestini’s book, “Educational Administration: Leading with Mind and Heart.” Even though Klingel’s article is inclined towards collective bargaining and negotiations in an educational setting, however, like Palestini, she too has placed underlying emphasis on the value of the exertion of power within an educational organization. As Palestini suggests that the use of power behavior in educational organizations can not only improve the performance of the organization but the performance of the individuals within them as well. Klingel adds ...

In Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, the philosopher denotes the main problems with private ownership, political economics and capitalist society. In short, those with property are the bourgeoisie, and those without property are the workers - the proletariat. Workers are frequently impoverished and alienated from their own world, most due to their inability to relate to the products that he creates. By making these products for other people, he is giving of himself to others without getting anything in return; he does not own any of the world that he gives his life to. Work is ...

Question 1

The similarity of the physical attributes of substitutes or the closeness in their ability to satisfy human want is a major determinant of elasticity of demand. A successful advertisement manages to convince consumers that the advertizing firm’s product is the best when compared to substitutes. This will make consumers avoid substitutes and buy the firm’s products even when their prices increase. Advertisements therefore reduce responsiveness of demand to changes in price level.
Monopolistically-competitive market is a market where an individual firm has control over the supply of a particular good or service which does not have close substitutes. Since ...

Question 1

The colonists devised new strategies to support their colonies as well as thwart any rebellions from the poor, regardless of their skills. In an attempt to achieve the goal, they devised various methods to raise funds using dubious means. One of the strategies they used was the Stamp Act. The British colonists imposed the Stamp Act to amass enough funds to repay debts and support their vast colonial territories in America (Taylor, 2002). The Stamp Act was a legislation that imposed a direct tax on printed materials of profitable nature and legal use in British territories. Stamp Act affected ...

If Treadmill of Production is true, how will sustainable development ever be possible in the future?

The financial capital has utilized by the treadmill production to change the controllable environmental technologies into refractory human labor. Whereas, increasing social belief is that primary resource to achieve public welfare is through economic growth. However, the interests of the treadmill are obtained through fixed capital, public institutions, and private investments that state-run to facilitate economic growth (Schnaiberg).
Moreover, these systems and investments are oriented by the government through organized and non-organized labor. Several treadmill actors have offered substantial resistance regarding social policies to promote sustainable development. On the other hand, there are opinions to preserve natural resources for ...

IHRM

Introduction
Firms that do not have the quality human resource face challenges in managing its operations globally and in attracting quality human resource (Farndale, Scullion, and Sparrow, 2010). Therefore it is critical for firms to manage their human resource. For this reason, the practices of human resource management are decisive in the success of the organization. As firms expand their operations to different countries, organizations have to consider a lot more factors than they have to when they are managing an organization that operates in only one country (Adler, 2002). Therefore, the role of international human resource management practices ...

Introduction

When a city or a town is a host of a conference, it is always difficult to arrange everything. The preparation should begin as early as possible. The point is that there are many people involved, as well as many work to be done. One should take into account not only the peculiarities of a conference or a meeting, but all legal issues, as well. This essay is aimed at answering several questions on the legal peculiarities of the case. The essay will be divided into three parts: according to the amount of questions to be answered. Such analysis will help to outline the main ...

Issues in Labor-Management Relations

Issues in Labor-Management Relations
One of the ways to ensure that the police officers perform their job well is through effective recruitment and training, which is critical to law enforcement agencies (Allen and Sawney, 2010). Since police officers are exposed to diverse situations in their everyday functions, there is a presumption that there is an informal police decision-making process that takes place in their daily operations. They use their own discretion to carry out vague commands such as keeping peace and order and performing arrests. As a result, police officers should undergo a thorough selection process to be able to fulfill ...

Female income gap shrinkage

The income gap existing between men and women is likely to shrink in the event that the low-income families will send the daughters to colleges while men are denied the chance to study. Most of the well-paying jobs will now be infiltrated with women at the expense of men. The continued increase of women in the well-paying jobs will ensure the income gap reduces since the number of women who will be better placed to acquire lucrative positions than men will be high. As explained by economists, the high investment in human capital in favor of the women will ...

Critical analysis of ‘Nike’s voice looms large. Social policy’ by Ballinger Jeff

Ballinger focuses his work on one company that has been known to exploit its workers. This is a tactic by Ballinger to ensure that his work is effective. Nike is a rich U.S. company that had been infamous for exploiting its workers. By using it as his target in his work, Ballinger was able to draw out worldwide attention for his book. An author writes his work with the aim of reaching out to his readers to make them aware or educate them about something. Ballinger as a labor activist had the aim to inform people of how rich companies used cheap ...

Types and Causes of Organizational Differentiation

Organizational structure determines the size and scale of operational and commercial activities. This scale and scope of company´s operations, in turn, explain the need and of organization for labor division and distribution of the tasks among individuals, groups, divisions and even country sectors. Differentiation by itself is the process that allows an organization to allocate human and material resources across tasks to be able to achieve its strategic, operational and tactical objectives. It is possible to observe that the bigger the organization is the higher this allocation and division of labor becomes (Gual and Ricart, 2001). The reality ...

According to John Ashworth the rise of American capitalism led to increasing calls for the complete and unconditional abolition of slavery from the United States. In the text provided John Ashworth proves this claim. He proves the claim by explaining the underlying ideologies of American capitalism and how these ideologies eventually led to demands for abolition of slavery. Capitalism advocates for privately owned businesses which bring forth profits for the owners. According to ashworth this was completely in line with abolitionism. This is because as capitalism grew there was increasing demand for labor and calls for the work force ...

Slave trade existed in the colonial days. Its origin was because of the shortage of labor. The first people to be slave were Aboriginals but they were not many. They had incentives like free access to land and indentured servitude. The demand for labor increased forced the Europeans to turn to West Africa. The Europeans exchanged the slaves for manufactured goods. This continued and it became a trade. The trade occurred in open markets. The markets opened daily and sometimes weekly. The black people were the slaves. Anybody in the North who could afford to buy slaves had cheap labor. ...

Chapter 14

Question 2
I think the reason why labor force participation of women is lower than that of men in the United States is because the policies that have been in existence have been favoring men more than women. This means that women have been discriminated when it comes to labor force participation. However, in modern time there has been a dramatic increase in the labor force participation of women. Many factors have contributed to this increase. There has been numerous legislations such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963 that have been formulated to help in diminishing sexual discrimination ...

Freedom or liberty can be defined as the power to determine one’s actions without restraints, interferences and exemptions from the influences in the external environment within an individual. It is the state of being at liberty or free in terms of decision making and acting rather that an individual acting in a way as being confined in restrained decision making process or course of action. The two articles provide cases in which the individual involved are constrained by the environment they are living in due to poverty and limited access to decent live and decent work that can accord ...

Introduction

Nike Incorporation was formed in 1968 in Oregon. The company is a well known global brand producing footwear products which are designed to satisfy specific athletic uses as well as certain products which can be worn for leisure and casual purposes. The corporation has operations in more than 51 countries and has over 20,000 retail accounts internationally (Nike, 2012). Nike has 16 distribution centers outside United States and in 2011, 57 percent of its total revenue came from its international operations (Annual Report, 2011). Since Nike is a global firm, it has to face a number of challenges which include making ...

There is a need to fix America’s unequal income distribution whereby a few individuals own most of the country’s wealth, while the majority of the population owns the least of the country’s wealth. The accumulated feeling of discontent has led to the current occupy Wall Street demonstrations (theGuardian 1). It is beneficial for the demonstrators understand the causes of the inequality and the realistic remedies to the problem.
Income inequality is caused by many complex factors which tend to cause a concentration of most of the income earned to a few people (the 1%), while the majority (99%) earn ...

Primary elective Cesarean Section is safer for infant and mother

Preferred above Emergency C-section

Possible resolutions – Evidence based studies should be conducted

Ethical dilemmas appear as moral conflicts everyday in nursing practice interventions. The anticipation of every nurse is that one day while engaged in this vocation an ethical dilemma will surface. Contemporary nursing practice forces the nurse to be a patient advocate also, besides execution of daily tasks to enhance life. Maternal infant nursing, as any other part of the discipline form time to time, forges ethical considerations at all levels of practice. In this discourse the writer will advance an argument for primary elective caesarean section and how ...

Human Resource Management refers to the manpower that an organization requires in order to realize its goals and uphold its mission. Human resource is the greatest asset in a company and contributes the most to an organization’s output. Every organization aims at maximizing their profits while ensuring that the stakeholders that form the human resource of the company; offer the required skills and effectively contribute to the realization of the organization’s goals.

Delivery of Human Resource in organizations

Organizations have several options in obtaining human resource. Depending on the cost, human resource managers may opt for outsourcing, In-house, centralized or decentralized human resource. This ...

In the beginning paragraph of this chapter Lamert (2010) advances the impression that while Durkheim‘s theory of anomie denotes a state of disorder, strategies linking modern division of labor structures seemed to emerge in response to annomie. I am in total agreement with this concept and line of thinking.
Further, Lamert (2010) actually points readers towards understanding the way social order in contemporary patterns of task distribution can eliminate the anomie posited by Durkheim. This is wonderful! Precisely, I embrace interpretations of the concepts ‘anomie’ and ‘modern division of labor’ because they can be interpreted as antonyms in a ...

Abstract

Vocational Education and Training (VET) is a fairly new educational concept that teaches the students skills required for performing a particular job[ CITATION Yin06 \l 1033 ]. In the last few decades Vocational Education and Training has changed focus from simply preparing the students for jobs that demanded less than a degree to a broader preparation that incorporate academic, vocational and technical skills development for more competitive professions or advanced degree[ CITATION Yin06 \l 1033 ]. Socioeconomic as well as political forces have contributed to major changes in the Vocational Education and Training system in Australia. With the diversification of the economy there is increasing ...

Introduction

President Obama enacted the Affordable Care Act as a United States Federal statute in 2010. Together with the amendment to the reconciliation bill, it promised to expand health insurance to all citizens at a reasonable cost. PPACA defines the health care as neither the right nor privilege of people but it states that citizens, however, do have a right to “affordable” healthcare, which it tries to achieve through a partnership between the market and the government. The ACA is a result of an evolution of government-funded plans such as Medicare and Medicaid as well as statutes such as HIPAA, ...

Vice president’s comments on cost and schedule variance

The concerns of Spokane’s vice president were valid because the cost and schedule variances had gone up between the second and the third month. The total cost variances for all the work packages in the second month were $14,000, a figure that went up $25,000 in the third month, reflecting a -78% surge in the total cost variances. Also, the scheduled variances indicated by the vice president were correct, as it showed that the period between the second and the third month experienced a 45% slippage on schedules. However, the information on the table is not ...

INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

Introduction
Objective of discussion
The aim of this essay is to critically review the reliability of the legal registration and protection system as it relates to protection of innovation ideas. The essay will specifically discuss about national and international protection system. Innovation as per Thumm (2013) is basically developing a new idea and putting it into practice. May (2013) states that it is crucial to restrict and protect innovations so as to develop a unique new value to customers. Innovations are protected by the legal registration and protection system. However, a number of innovations have failed to receive a ...

The historical stretch of Korea shows that its people had a hard life. Such hardships resulted in a treaty that made Korea a Japanese protectorate. Japan made all efforts to ensure that Korea is safe and that reconstruction of the administrative system was necessary (Caprio 5). Soon, due to the unstable state of Korea, the citizens had to be part of the Empire of Japan. Thus, in 1905, Korea became a colony of Japan (Caprio 6). The colonial rule of Japan was a source of discrimination and sufferings of Korean people.
Between the two world wars, Koreans who had ...

Authors may use statistics in a biased way with the intention of making their points plausible. This paper cross-examines three articles; one by Los Angeles Times, The Forbes Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal on rising minimum wages in the USA examining their approaches and possible biases.
Kitroeff (2016) quoting the UC Berkeley’s Centre for Labor Research and Education noted that those who stand to gain from higher minimum wages in California are the low-income adults comprising of a majority of the housed breadwinners. In the article, Kitroeff argues the about 5.6 million low earners stand to earn $ ...