Author: United States Railroad Labor BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board with Addenda and Interpretations
Author: United States Railroad Labor BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Decision
Author: United States Railroad Labor BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration, Industrial
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
The Railroad Worker
Author: Railroad Worker
Author: The Railroad Trainman
Author: The Signalman's Journal
Author: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine
Author: The Economics of Railroad Safety
Author: Ian SavagePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146155571X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.
Railroad Issues
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research BoardPublisher: Transportation Research Board National Research
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Labor Impacts
Author: Gail BlissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transport workers
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description