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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Month
Author: The Industrialists
Author: Jennifer A. DeltonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691167869
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The first complete history of US industry's most influential and controversial lobbyist Founded in 1895, the National Association of Manufacturers—NAM—helped make manufacturing the basis of the US economy and a major source of jobs in the twentieth century. The Industrialists traces the history of the advocacy group from its origins to today, examining its role in shaping modern capitalism, while also highlighting the many tensions and contradictions within the organization that sometimes hampered its mission. In this compelling book, Jennifer Delton argues that NAM—an organization best known for fighting unions, promoting "free enterprise," and defending corporate interests—was also surprisingly progressive. She shows how it encouraged companies to adopt innovations such as safety standards, workers' comp, and affirmative action, and worked with the US government and international organizations to promote the free exchange of goods and services across national borders. While NAM's modernizing and globalizing activities helped to make American industry the most profitable and productive in the world by midcentury, they also eventually led to deindustrialization, plant closings, and the decline of manufacturing jobs. Taking readers from the Progressive Era and the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and the Trump presidency, The Industrialists is the story of a powerful organization that fought US manufacturing's political battles, created its economic infrastructure, and expanded its global markets—only to contribute to the widespread collapse of US manufacturing by the close of the twentieth century.
A Layman's Protest Against the Purchas Judgment ...
Author: Robert BrettLaboured Protest
Author: Oliver AyersPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429673191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more interesting, movement than previously thought.
The Saturday Review
Author: The Ethical Philosophy of Sidgwick
Author: Frank Herbert HaywardPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Time
Author: Edmund Hodgson YatesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
A Layman's Protest Against the Purchas Judgment. A Reply to a Letter of the ... Bishop of London
Author: Robert BRETTReasons why I am a Unitarian, in a series of letters
Author: John Relly BeardReasons why I Am a Unitarian: in a Series of Letters to a Friend
Author: John Relly BeardPublisher:
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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