Samuel Slater: Father of American Manufactures

The Premises of the American System of Manufactures

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the nature of the American system of manufactures in a descriptive and critical manner, to analyze its entrenched paradigm, and then to uncover its rational inadequacy. In particular, the paper first describes the dominant model embodied in the American system in terms of job design, organizational structure, and organizational technology, and reveals its...

William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922): father of American surgery.

Hugh Hampton Young-father of modern American urology.

Journal of Investigative Surgery Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713723105 Hugh Hampton Young Father of Modern American Urology Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra ab a Michigan State University/Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, Borgess Research Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA b Department of Surger...

African American Father Involvement and Preschool Children’s School Readiness

A developmental ecological model was used to identify child attributes, father characteristics, and familial factors associated with multidimensional father involvement with preschool children enrolled in Head Start. The relations between father involvement and children’s school readiness were also investigated. Eightyfive African American fathers and father figures were surveyed about their in...

Growing Up Without Father: The Effects on African American Boys

This study examined behaviors of African American male adolescents, resulting from father absence. It further examined the extent to which there is a relation between African American boys’ behavior and their status as sons of an absent father. Effects of father absence was approached by researching articles and journals comparing African American males raised in female headed household to Afri...