When the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was enacted in 1935, 13.2% of nonagricultural labor force participants were members of labor organizations. The US had been transformed from an agrarian to an industrial economy as large manufacturing firms were established to produce automobiles, steel, electrical equipment, and similar commodities. During the mid-1930s, the leadership of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) created the Committee for Industrial Organization that was intended to develop ways to organize these new manufacturing companies and divide the new members among existing AFL craft unions. This article will explore changes that must be made in the NLRA if it is to be a meaningful force in the coming years. Following its enactment in 1935, the NLRA had a significant im...
This might seem a tough time to celebrate Thanksgiving. The national mood is pessimistic. The economy continues to limp along. The failure of the "supercommittee" seems to symbolize the breakdown of not just governance but democratic politics. Yet there are reasons to be cheerful about America this week. America remains the most dynamic economy in the developed world. We are currently enamored of Germany for having maintained its manufacturing base through timely reforms. That's good, and we could learn a lot from other countries. But let's note that German companies are products of the second industrial revolution - from the early 20th century - clustering around cars, chemicals and machine tools. Germany has one notable company in the information economy, SAP. The post-industrial, inf...
The collapse of Wall Street investment banking has created a tsunami of unwelcome expectations for the banking industry. During the past three decades, the conservative world of banking has undergone remarkable and radical change. The historic importance of American bankers of the time lay in their recognition of the changes brought about by the industrial revolution and an appreciation of the changing focus of intrinsic value in an industrial economy. If there is to be a significant role for banks in the post-industrial economy, some things must change -- and change quickly. To start, banking risk management standards and risk tolerances must be developed internally, predicated on first principles and not simply outsourced to credit rating agencies. Secondly, risk must be identified an...
The bumbling of the Bush administration, the corruption of the recent Republican Congress, and the economic insecurity of the post-industrial information economy has led young voters to reject the Republican Party in droves. [...] Jane Fleming Kleeb, executive director of Young Voter PAC, which works with Democratic candidates to engage young people, wrote in an e-mail, "It is fascinating to me how much the right has let their youth outreach go by the wayside." Democrats carried the youth vote by 20 points in House races and 27 points in Senate races, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).
By creating, subsidizing and providing training for jobs in child care, early education, health care, elder care and other "caring industries," as well as supporting caring work in homes, we quickly stimulate the economy, help families, radically reduce poverty and violence, reward women!; economic contributions, save billions in crime and prisons, and develop the "high-quality human capital" needed for our post-industrial economy. * The high-tech green jobs and infrastructure construction jobs proposed by the job-creation program as currently formulated are still largely "men's work." Yet the time has passed when male "heads of family" were the sole breadwinners. The majority of families are two wage-earner families or woman-headed families. An effective economic stimulus program also ...
Craft-beer fans love the glass jugs known as growlers because they let you take home a half-gallon (or more!) of your favorite drafts at a sizable discount (including imports and microbrews you can't get in bottles). Green types love growlers because they're infinitely reusable. Thanks to reusablebuilding-materials emporium Construction Junction, you needn't only "rent" growlers from the area bars and breweries that fill them. For $5, you can buy your own. The Uni-Growler can be topped off at 11 locations, from D's Six Pax and Dogz and East End Brewing to the Harris Grill, Point Brugge Café and Sharp Edge. Hang one from your finger by the little glass loop: It's 64 ounces of good times. In 2009, Pittsburgh got more attention than it knew what to do with. Was it our much-post-industrial ...
... rebirth? Our recessionresistant economy? Our regional marketing sector? Maybe it was somet...
Daniel Bell NEW YORK - Daniel Bell, a leading sociologist of the past half- century who wrote ground-breaking books about the demise of revolutionary politics and about the economy and lifestyle of what he helped label a "post-industrial" society, has died. He was 91.
AUBURN -- The Twin Cities need a new more modern, post- industrial vision of the community to guide future council decisions and economic development, Auburn mayoral candidate Jonathan LaBonte said Tuesday night. We don't make blankets and shoes, but to some extent we still think like we make blankets and shoes," LaBonte told members of the Auburn Democratic Committee at a candidates' forum in Auburn Hall. "I think we need to look around us and see we are competing in a global economy.
PENANG IS GRADUALLY shifting towards the post-industrial era, where the economic activities on the island state are going through a paradigm shift, from a production-economy to a knowledge-economy. The recent launch of `Penang Free WiFi' by Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng is one such example, where Penang is seen as aggressively forging ahead of other states to become the country's first WiFi state.
Since the middle of the twentieth century, this sector has been dominated by developed countries. Since the early 1980s, according to the World Bank Development Indicators database for 2008, international IP-related revenues have grown steadily in every OECD country, both in raw terms and as a percentage of countries' GDP. 1 The growth of IP-dependent industries has benefited many people in richer, developed countries, but economic globalization has brought such companies and their government protectors into conflict with businesses, states and citizens in the developing world.
... for equality in the knowledge-based economy. Some of these factors stem from the prevalence of...
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