Author: Cynthia Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520909304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history.
On Account of Sex
Author: Cynthia Harrison
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520909304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520909304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history.
Project Earning Power
Author: United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. Women's Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Work Sharing Case Studies
Author: Maureen E. McCarthy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Case studies of work sharing through the rearrangement of working time in various industries in the USA - covers compressed working week, reduced hours of work, part time employment, Job Sharing, extended paid leave, sabbatical leave, flexible retirement and short time working; looks at obstacles, employment creation effects, impact on personnel management, shared work unemployment benefit in California, etc. Bibliography pp. 271 to 277 and references.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Case studies of work sharing through the rearrangement of working time in various industries in the USA - covers compressed working week, reduced hours of work, part time employment, Job Sharing, extended paid leave, sabbatical leave, flexible retirement and short time working; looks at obstacles, employment creation effects, impact on personnel management, shared work unemployment benefit in California, etc. Bibliography pp. 271 to 277 and references.
The Negro Family
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.
Official Register of the United States
The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
Author: United States. President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : People with disabilities
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Iowa Official Register
The Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: Ewan Clague
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Historical background, description of business organization, and information on statistical methods and research methods of the bureau of labor statistics as the research centre in the USA responsible for carrying out surveys and compiling statistics of work and related matters for labour administration purposes - bibliography pp. 257 to 261, organisational diagram, and relationship with ILO mentioned.
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Historical background, description of business organization, and information on statistical methods and research methods of the bureau of labor statistics as the research centre in the USA responsible for carrying out surveys and compiling statistics of work and related matters for labour administration purposes - bibliography pp. 257 to 261, organisational diagram, and relationship with ILO mentioned.
Washington, its sights and insights
Author: Harriet Earhart Monroe
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
"Washington, its sights and insights" by Harriet Earhart Monroe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
"Washington, its sights and insights" by Harriet Earhart Monroe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Color of Welfare
Author: Jill Quadagno
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199874476
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class. In The Color of Welfare, Jill Quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the center of the "American Dilemma," as Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal did half a century ago. The "American creed" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says Quadagno. It is racism that has undermined the War on Poverty, and America must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform today. From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continually foundered on issues of race. Drawing on extensive primary research, Quadagno shows, for instance, how Roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded African Americans from the core programs of the Social Security Act. Turning to Lyndon Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty," she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which triggered a white backlash. Job training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groups. This shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class Americans, who had some of the same needs--for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities--but who got very little from these programs. At the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integrated. Quadagno shows that Nixon, who initially supported many of Johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchanted. He realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the Family Assistance Plan, threatened to undermine wages in the South and alienate the Republican party's new constituency--white, southern Democrats--and therefore dropped it. In the 1960s, the United States embarked on a journey to resolve the "American dilemma." Yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismally. The Color of Welfare reveals the root cause of this failure--the inability to address racial inequality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199874476
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class. In The Color of Welfare, Jill Quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the center of the "American Dilemma," as Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal did half a century ago. The "American creed" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says Quadagno. It is racism that has undermined the War on Poverty, and America must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform today. From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continually foundered on issues of race. Drawing on extensive primary research, Quadagno shows, for instance, how Roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded African Americans from the core programs of the Social Security Act. Turning to Lyndon Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty," she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which triggered a white backlash. Job training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groups. This shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class Americans, who had some of the same needs--for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities--but who got very little from these programs. At the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integrated. Quadagno shows that Nixon, who initially supported many of Johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchanted. He realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the Family Assistance Plan, threatened to undermine wages in the South and alienate the Republican party's new constituency--white, southern Democrats--and therefore dropped it. In the 1960s, the United States embarked on a journey to resolve the "American dilemma." Yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismally. The Color of Welfare reveals the root cause of this failure--the inability to address racial inequality.