Building Trades Exhibition

Officer Performance and Compensation in Local Building Trades Unions

Excerpt] This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the performance and compensation of local building trades union leaders. A growing literature has revived the common-sense notion that organizations should structure the compensation of both their employees and their executives so as to encourage them to take actions consistent with the goals of the organizations. One way to min...

4-homogeneous Latin Trades

A Case Study: Experiences with Building an Online Exhibition System using Web Services

We present an implementation of an Online Exhibition System (OES) web service(s) that reflects our experiences with using web service development packages and software process models. The system provides major functionality that exists in similar packages. While developing such a complex web service, we gained insightful experience (i) in the traditional software development processes: waterfal...

Rich Trades, Scarce Capabilities:

In the last decade of the sixteenth century, the Dutch republic underwent a dramatic economic transformation that laid the foundation of the country’s Golden Age. At the heart of this process was the rise of the ‘rich trades’, the network by which Dutch shipping came to dominate the lucrative trade routes to the East Indies, the Americas and the Levant (Israel (1990)). The rise of the ‘rich tra...

Exploring the dangerous trades.

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