Search results for: “history of labor legislation”
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History of Labor Legislation
History of Labor Legislation Introduction In comparing legislation affecting factories, mines, shops and truck in the chief industrial countries of the continent with that of Great Britain, it is essential to a just view that inquiry should be extended beyond the codes themselves to the general social order and system of law and administration in…
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History of Diplomacy
History of Diplomacy Introduction to the History of Diplomacy As soon as people organized themselves into separate social groups, the necessity of regularizing contacts with representatives of other groups became apparent. Even the earliest civilizations had rules for interaction. Early Development The first civilization to develop an orderly system of diplomacy was ancient Greece. Ambassadors…
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Legal History
Legal History “This abstraction called the Law,” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., once observed, is “a magic mirror, [wherein] we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!”1 Holmes believed that this “magic mirror” offered historians an opportunity to explore the social choices and moral imperatives of…
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History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century
History of Women’s Rights in the 20th Century Women’s in the 20th-Century Developments Socialists Movements and Communism Governments After wars and revolutions in Russia (1917) and China (1949), new Communist governments discouraged the patriarchal family system and supported sexual equality, including birth control. In the Soviet Union, however, the majority of working women held low-paid…
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Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States
Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best American and European Writers Subjects of the Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and the Political History of the United States. By the Best…
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Work in America. An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society
Work in America. An Encyclopedia of History, Policy and Society Title: Work in America. An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society Edited by: Carl E.Van Horn and Herbert A. Schaffner Foreword by: Ray Marshall, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Publisher: ABC CLIO Work in America. An Encyclopedia of History, Policy, and Society List of Entries…
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Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History Bibliographic Details Title: Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History ISBN: 9780195134056 Author: Katz, Stanley N. Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Subject: Legal History, Historical jurisprudence. Series Volume: 6 Volume-set Publication Date: 2009-04-17 Language: English Pages: 3072 Review of Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History Publisher Comments The Oxford International…
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History of the State of Exception
History of the State of Exception A Brief History of the State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben An excerpt from State of Exception We have already seen how the state of siege had its origin in France during the Revolution. After being established with the Constituent Assembly’s decree of July 8, 1791, it acquired its…
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History of Women’s Rights
History of Women’s Rights until the 20th Century Traditional Status Some scholars argue that the discovery throughout the European continent and the Near East of thousands of stone figures of female goddesses dating from the Paleolithic period and on indicates that early societies were originally goddess-worshiping, matrifocal civilizations. Male dominance, however, was preeminent from the…
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History of Zionism
History of Zionism History of Zionism before 1910 During the middle ages, though the racial character of the Jews was being transformed by their Ghetto seclusion, the national yearning suffered no relaxation. If it expressed itself exclusively in literature, it was not on that account undergoing a process of idealization. (Cf. Abrahams’s Jewish Life in…
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History of Working Time
History of Working Time Regulations History of Working Time until 1920 The decade following 1910 witnessed a rapid advance and extension in the already widespread movement in favour of the reduction of the hours of labour. This was mainly due, apart from general trade-union pressure, firstly to the repercussions of the World War and of…