Tag Archives: employment

Hey! Wait! Is that your hand in my pocket friend!?

Posted on October 26, 2011 by cornerback5

In doing my research on how state laws aid or impede labor unions, I came across right to work laws. These laws are rulings, allowed under provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act, which forbid bargains between companies and labor unions that … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Class, Equality, Society | Tagged Closed shop, employment, labor, Labor Movement, law, Trade union, United States, Work | 5 Comments

Wager…wages…?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by mnickels

For my final paper, I am thinking about writing it on the wage discrepancies between the higher and lower classes. After reading about the Wal-Mart cases and their wages they pay their employees and playing around with the State of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Business, Cases (Real World), Equality, Government, Society | Tagged Allegedly Unethical Firms, employment, United States, Wage, Wal-Mart | 5 Comments

How big’s your network?

Posted on October 5, 2011 by mcrawford

Looking through an older BU blog I came across an interesting post Revisiting Informal Group Power. This post describes the connection between power and informal groups. Power in a formal group is structured; it is authority in a corporation, authority … Continue reading →

Posted in Society, Uncategorized | Tagged Careers, employment, Formal organization, Networking, Power, Social Capital, Syria | 3 Comments

Professional Sports and Our Economy

Posted on October 3, 2011 by katiebaum13

In the blog, “How the economy is Affecting Sports: Corporate Sponsors” by Ross Liberati, it talks about how major sport industries such as NASCAR and the NFL are doing poorly due to the decrease of sponsor involvement from other corporations … Continue reading →