How Unions Affect Politics

According to Geoffrey Garins and Guy Molyneuxs Informing and Empowering American Workers (114), a survey was conducted amongst union members regarding a  unions actvie engagement in the political process,  and three quarters of the survey respondents believe that unions, indeed, need to exert time, effort, as well as money in politics. It is widely believed that by actively participating in politics, unions could help minimize the influence of corporations on politicians the more unions...

Does America Need a Labor Party

The labor sector comprises a huge bulk of the United States political and economic landscape. However, given the capitalist set-up, labor is bound to be one of the marginalized areas of American society. History would show that the struggle for economic equality rests mainly on the domain of the fight of the labor movement. And the labor movement is only but a result of a wider and more entrenched union groups. On the other hand, statistics would show that the working class and their families are...

Democracy

    The question of whether democracies wage war against each other has continued to spark a lot of interest among different scholars from different sectors and countries. While some are strongly convinced that democracies wage war against each other, others feel that it is highly unlikely for democracies to fight against other democratic states. Democracies do not go to war with each other theory has been debated for the past two decades and still continues to raise various arguments...

International Relations

    The argument that balancing is the dominant tendency in international relations has found application in many different organs for different states in the international set up. Offensive realism observes nations and states as the core actors in international relations. However, the realism of offense amounts to several additional assumptions to the structure of organizational realism. The assumptions made here are that the international systems is a system of anarchy all states...

Relationship Ideas and Interests in Foreign Policy

    In several ways, the foreign policy always begin with a meta-policy which is intended to interpret actors and events that the final policy will seek to address. The Meta policy brings together the ideas born by a certain nation and the interests thereof. There must be significant interests that will be beneficial to the country whether directly or indirectly.  The way the policy trigger is explained and built up predetermines the plan options available together with the legalization...

INDUSTRIALIZATION IN AMERICA - Has Industrialization in America Resulted in More Work for Mother

American and indeed the worlds industrialization was a process that entailed drastic transformations in the fields of industry, social and economic spheres from the pre-industrial era to the industrial period. During that period, countries like Britain, Germany, Belgium and the USA made a clear jump from agricultural dependency societies to self sustaining industrial societies. They embarked on a tight Programme of sustained and regular economic and social growth which propelled them into what was...

THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS

There is only one planet where people live  the Earth. For the environmentalists, the Earth is a spaceship which carries the people (Hardin, 1974). In this spaceship, the people are expected to share resources and to gain as much resources as they can because they feel they have the freedom to do whatever they desire. However, Hardin (1964) asserts that a planet, or a place, can only accommodate so much. Besides, being a commons means that there is no single person who will be 100 responsible...

Marshall vs. Jefferson Personal Philosophies Shaping a Nation

The period between American Revolutionary War and ratification of the Constitution and subsequent passing of the American Bill of Rights was a time that formed political philosophies of a newborn nation. These philosophies originated from sharp debates of the Founding Fathers, whose personal views and ideas became views and ideas of America. The famous dispute of Federalists and Anti-Federalists was combined with less-known confrontations inside these two political camps. This paper discusses one...

Emergency management

Roles and responsibilities in emergency management disaster from a first responders aspect     Disaster management is one of the most crucial activities carried out by various departments and sectors in an organization. Disasters are of many types including with the most common being fire and various forms of accidents. Disasters are emergency issues requiring immediate attention from all the various sectors in a community. They may occur at any given time and at any place and these...

Labor and Politics

A perspective comparing the labor union in the 21st century has shown that all worlds best for the workers is basically coordinated bargaining at countrys level or national level and relevant rank engagement in the lower local levels. Though the fruits from the coordinated bargaining and national are not being realistic in the United States foreseeable future, the labor movement should once again become a social movement. In general for an organized labor to take on the critical roles effectively...

International Relations - North and South Korea

North and South KoreaDefinition of terms.Parallel structure - The term parallel structure is commonly used by writers in describing similar ideas which have been presented or expressed in similar ways.Workers Party of Korea  The Workers Party of Korea which is also referred to as Korean Workers party normally abbreviated as (KWP) is the leading ruling party in the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea. Since its foundation it has been the only ruling party in DPRK.Songun -  Otherwise spelled...