To comprehend and cope with our environment we develop mental patterns or concepts of meaning. The purpose of this paper is to sketch out how we destroy and create these patterns to permit us to both shape and be shaped by a changing environment. In this sense, the discussion also literally shows why we cannot avoid this kind of activity if we intend to survive on our own terms. The activity is...

The Welfare Effects of Globalization with Labor Market Regulation I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national or international common agency that determines minimum wages for the oligopoli...

Research into the effects of group diversity usually posits intra-group, interpersonal mechanisms to explain why more diverse work groups would have better or worse processes or performance than less diverse ones. Research into the causes of group diversity on the other hand usually downplays the importance of interpersonal judgment and bias and instead focus on the structural demography that f...

PURPOSE To investigate how a partnership between labor and management works to change the organization and focus of nursing home frontline work, supporting a transition toward person-centered care (PCC) in participating nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS Using a participatory research approach, we conducted case studies of 2 nursing homes participating in a partnership between a labor union an...

The primary challenge facing labor and employment policy in the next decade is to reconstruct the social contract between the American workforce and employers in ways that address the needs and realities of a modern economy and society. To do so the country will need to modernize the labor and employment policies carried over from the New Deal era and foster innovations in labor unions, labor m...

The effect of reapportionment in Harris Coutny and across Texas was explained by Miss Barbara Jordan at the f i r s t meeting of the Rice Young Democrats last week. Miss Jordan, a local attorney, explained that, "For the f irst time in Texas, we are going to have legislators who represent people, not cattle." The state legislature's courtordered redisricting plan will end rural domination of Te...

This paper analyses the scope for collusive behaviour within the context of an international duopoly supergame in which both firms and monopoly labour unions interact strategically. We find that the presence of unions, implying an endogenisation of production costs, dramatically alters the incentives for inter-firm collusion. There are, however, strong incentives for the unions to collude, rais...

  Children are a precious gift from God, and the blessing of a child is a special time in a person's life. All cultures and religious traditions have certain ways of welcoming a newborn child into the community; also, each culture and religion has its own customs and traditions for the birth of a child. During and after the birth of a Muslim child, there are certain rituals the mother and fathe...

This note provides conditions under which the union of three well-founded binary relations is also well-founded. This note concerns conditions under which the union of several wellfounded (binary) relations is also well-founded.1 To garner insight, we tackle just three relations, A, B, and C, over some underlying set V . Let {A|B} denote A ∪ B, and so on for other unions of relations. And let j...