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Why American Engineers Aren't Unionized - A Comparative Perspective, Peter F. Meiksins, Chris Smith

Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications

This article presents a comparative perspective on why U.S. engineers are not unionized. The decline of organized labor in the U.S. has stimulated a new interest in comparative research. Explanations of the prolonged stagnation and contraction of the U.S. labor movement that focus on the U.S. alone run the risk of assuming that the U.S. case is normal, and that the decline of organized labor is a structural inevitability of advanced capitalism. By broadening their scope to include other industrialized countries with similar political economies and different labor histories, students of the labor movement will be better able to identify …

The L-Word : February 1, 1993, The L-Word

The L-Word

No abstract provided.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 23 [32], Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Ex-Food Services Official Indicted – Howard Lindsey, Dining Services
• Broadbent, Stephanie. Virgin Rule Keeps Woman From Pageant – Lisa Caswell, Miss Western
• Hannah, Jim. Vacant Positions Account for Majority of Reduction – Budget
• Morris, Linda. Non-Traditional Students Participation, Effort High
• Man Arrested for Campus Thefts – George Murray
• Money Miseries Hinder Proposals by the President Thomas Meredith
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon Firefighter Thomas Meredith Runs Out of Water
• Flanagan, Elizabeth. Chalk Drawings Desecrate Campus – Demonstrations
• Beach, Bennie. University Center Board Gives Local …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Cassady, Pam. Preston Health & Activities Center Pool Flooded With Problems
• Mahaney, Jill. Elvis Fans All Shook Up Over Stamp
• Morris, Linda. Students Want Their Own Floor – Non-Traditional Students, Housing & Residence Life
• Tungate, Matthew. Class to Learn, Receive Credit at Inauguration – Bill Clinton
• Universities Await Word on Cuts – Budget
• Faculty Evaluations of President Must Be Made Public
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon Public Demanding Thomas Meredith’s Evaluation
• Holland, Kamela. Marriott Turnstile Hinders Some – Dining Services
• Stoess, Ray. Summer Camp Needs Counselors …

The Strange Career Of Thomas Jefferson: Race And Slavery In American Memory, Edward L. Ayers, Scot A. French

History Faculty Publications

Jefferson's life has come to symbolize America's struggle with racial inequality, his successes and failures mirroring those of his nation. The quest for a more honest and inclusive rendering of the American past has placed a heavy burden on Jefferson and his slaves. Generation after generation of Americans has sought some kind of moral symmetry at Monticello, some kind of reconciliation between slavery and freedom, black and white, past injustice and present compensation.

The Effects Of Exposure To Female Role Models On Female Career Self-Efficacy For Perceived Male-Dominated Occupations, Beverly Jean Hines

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Future Perceptions Of African Americans After The Los Angeles Riot, Rosalyn Sheree Avant

Theses Digitization Project

The riot that occurred on April 29, 1992 in reaction to the Rodney King verdict.

Gendered Rhetoric: Women's Voices In Academic Discourse, Sandra Marie Gould

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

The Editor’S Role In Preventing Gender Bias In Scientific Journals: A Challenge, Mary Guinan

School of Public Health Faculty Research

One way to explore whether gender bias exists in the process of scientific publishing is to examine the end product, ie, the published works, using previously validated criteria. Williams and Borins used this method and found significant gender bias in the studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This study will be challenged on the basis of the criteria used to detect bias. Are they valid'' Who is to decide" No generally agreed upon criteria exist to examine gender bias. Indeed, scientific journals have not indicated that they see a need for such examination. But even this method …

Interview: Henry Spira, Foundation For Biomedical Research

Interviews

No abstract provided.

Tackling The Titans, Erik Marcus

Profiles

The successful strategy of animal-rights activist Henry Spira.

Images Of Ethnicity In Pornography, Robin Rhodes Campbell

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Omaha Conditions Survey: 1993 Metro Sample, Center For Public Affairs Research (Cpar)

Publications

The Omaha Conditions Survey: 1993 is the third in a series of studies conducted by the Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. This study is part of CPAR's initiative to monitor and improve the processes operating in Nebraska's urban areas by developing quality information for decision-makers.

This year's survey sampled adults in the Omaha metropolitan area and African-American adults in North Omaha. The metropolitan sample focused on regional development issues along with employment and labor force experiences. The North Omaha sample focused on neighborhood shopping patterns, employment experiences, and job training. In addition, …

Ivy Leaves, 1992-1993, Ivy Leaves Editorial Staff

Ivy Leaves

The 1993 edition of the Anderson College journal of art and literature, Ivy Leaves.

The names of the known editors for this issue of Ivy Leaves were David R. Peebles, Kim Emanuelson, Marissa Glover, Sharon Keaton, Tracey Kulesh, Alison L. Lowery, Melissa Perry, John Skardon, Shanon Betsinger, Tyler Butler, Wendy Church, Karla Fousek, Lisa Hadden, Amanda Hughes, David Moore, Rion Pinckney, Jeffrey S. Walker, Anita Albert, Dr. Wayne Cox, Doug Davison, and Susan Wooten. Cover art by Shannon Betsinger.

Review Essay: "Arthur M. Schlesinger's Vision Of America And The Multicultural Debate" By Jesse M. Vazquez, Jesse M. Vazquez

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

In April of 1990, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., published an essay in the Wall Street Journal entitled "When Ethnic Studies are Un-American."[1] The publication of that article followed, by about eight months, the release of New York State's Department of Education's now controversial report -- "A Curriculum of Inclusion."[2] Interestingly, the publication of The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society also follows, by about seven months, the release of New York State's second and most current Education Department report calling for the development of a new multicultural social studies curriculum -- One Nation, Many Peoples: A Declaration of …

Explorations In Sights And Sounds

Explorations in Sights and Sounds

No abstract provided.

A New Look At The Old "Race" Language: Rethinking "Race" And Exclusion In Social Policy, Chorswang Ngin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This essay is an examination of the use of the notion “race" current in American social science literature and public discourse. It argues that the current assumptions of “race" are mistaken and lead to misunderstanding and misdirected social policy. A rethinking of the notions of “race" requires making a paradigmatic shift of the old categories of “race" and “race relations" to a new language that rejects “race" as a descriptive and an analytical category. It examines the processes through which “racist" social policies are enacted against Asian immigrants in contemporary Southern California.

Explorations In Ethnic Studies

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.

Introduction Maulana Karenga, Guest Editor, Maulana Karenga

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

This special issue on "Ethnicity and Public Policy" explores critical issues in public policy from various vantage points. Its scope is wide-ranging and aims at delineating and analyzing discourse and practices which both inform and constitute public policy on ethnic questions. It includes theoretical, historical and practical studies and represents a variety of approaches to both the definition and discourse of ethnicity and public policy on the national and international level.

Untying The Knot: A Scoialist-Feminist Analysis Of The Social Construction Of Care: Social Research And Development Monograph No. 7, Dani Stehlik

Research outputs pre 2011

As the Australian population ages, policy and human service practice in the field of aged care assumes an increasingly important and relevant position. In this monograph I argue that women who are providing care for aged spouses, parents or relatives in their (or their carer's) own homes, are doing essential, hard and stressful work, work which is unpaid and often unacknowledged, and that the Australian welfare system is now structured around the invisible unpaid labour of such women. The rhetoric of Australian political parties is focussing more and more on the notion of an ideal' family' and 'community' and a …

Setting Sun: Popular Culture Images Of The Japanese And Japanese Americans And Public Policy, Mary Young

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

The negative, stereotypical depictions of the Japanese and Japanese Americans in American popular culture in the first half of the twentieth century were of great importance in the promulgation of the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924, the internment of Japanese Americans following the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The American public had been adequately prepared to accept inaccurate representations of Japanese and Japanese Americans; therefore, there was little public outcry against these actions.

Institutionalized Discrimination In The Legal System: A Socio-Historical Approach, Michael Hodge, Kevin E. Early, Harry Gold

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Despite many of the social, political, and economic changes of the 1960s, discrimination is still prevalent in the United States. Increasingly, evidence of discrimination can be seen in our nation's courts, institutions of higher education, in public policy decisions, and every social, political and economic institution. The question of how this can be in these days of ethnic and cultural diversity has aroused considerable interest among social scientists, as well as among the general public. One area that has been the target of considerable research is the criminal justice system. Wilbanks[1] has suggested that it is a "myth" that the …

When All The World's A Stage: The Impact Of Events On News Coverage Of South Africa, 1979-1985, Stanley O. Gaines Jr., David C. Roberts, Donald J. Baumann

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

A time series analysis was used to investigate: (1) whether a significant increase in news coverage of South Africa occurred during the critical years of 1979-1985 ; (2) whether the geographic origin and/or sociopolitical impact of events, rather than deaths per se, caused the increase; and (3) the manner in which the increase occurred. Results indicated that two symbolic events (i.e., a series of riots in twenty-one South African townships, internal to South Africa; and the awarding of the Nobel Prize to Bishop Desmond Tutu, external to South Africa) cumulatively were responsible for a significant rise in news coverage of …

Human Rights And National Minorities In The United States, Charles P. Henry

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Three human rights myths serve to limit the debate over human rights in the United States and bias our perspective in dealing with the human rights claims of citizens from other countries. The first myth is that human rights belong solely to individuals and protect them largely from negative actions by the state. The second myth declares that civil and political rights are primary while economic, cultural, and social rights are secondary. The third myth asserts that the only rights that count are legal in nature and that moral or personal claims are invalid or irrelevant. Even a brief historical …

Abstracts From The Twenty-First Annual Conference - " Race, Class, And Gender"

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Abstracts From the Twenty-First Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies "Race, Class, and Gender" March 3-6, 1993 Red Lion Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah

Gente Joven/Young People: A Dialogue On Sexuality With Adolescents In Mexico, Magaly Marques, John M. Paxman, Judith Bruce

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

This issue of Quality/Calidad/Qualité describes the experience of one adolescent sexuality program, Gente Joven in Mexico. Gente Joven began by acknowledging reality: that the problems related to teenage sexuality will not go away simply by denying their existence. Along the way Gente Joven learned, and is continuing to learn, many lessons about how to build a successful program for adolescents. Here they share their experiences and the Afterword explores in greater depth one particular issue that Gente Joven has identified as its next major challenge: re-examining their work with young people from a gender perspective.

The Realities Of Punishment, David A. Harris

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Women In Leadership Program 1993: Public Lecture Series, Pauline Carroll (Ed.)

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

Women In Leadership Program 1993: National Conference: Women's Voices: Challenging For The Future, Pauline Carroll (Ed.)

Research outputs pre 2011

The Women in Leadership Program is an exciting development initiative that, over a three year period, has had a visible effect on attitudes towards leadership and the role of women in organisations. As part of the program, through the generous funding support of the Commonwealth Staff Development Fund, the goodwill of staff and the commitment of women examining the leadership challenges facing Australian society today, Edith Cowan University has hosted a National Women in Leadership Conference for the past two years. This Conference provides an ongoing opportunity for women from varied and diverse roles to contribute to our knowledge and …