Labor

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19-24	March 1988 Readings/Article The profit in work's pleasure By Wendell Berry SEE ALSO: Labor; 1981-; Quality of work life; Work; Work environment PDF IMAGES
14	February 1974 About this issue/Article About this issue By R. K. SEE ALSO: Dillard, Annie; Career as nature writer; Career as oral historian; Labor; Nature stories; Pilgrim at Tiker Creek (Book); Terkel, Studs; Working (Book) PDF IMAGES
301-311	August 1940 Article Born in 1921 By Roy Addison Helton SEE ALSO: Labor; Unemployment; Youth PDF IMAGES
594-605	April 1868 Article Sheffield—a battle-field of English labor. In two parts (part II) By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Biography; Elliott, Ebenezer; Labor; Sheffield (England) PDF IMAGES
481-491	March 1868 Article Sheffield—a battle-field of English labor. In two parts (part I) By Moncure Daniel Conway SEE ALSO: Biography; Montgomery, James; Labor; Sheffield (England) PDF IMAGES

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Literary notes/Review

Literary notes

By Laurence Hutton

SEE ALSO: Labor; Trade-unions; Wages

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Oct 2006	Factor by which the jobless rate among veterans under 25 of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars exceeds the U.S. average: 3	Harper's Index Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington)
Oct 2006	Chances that a U.S. retiree says that he or she was forced to stop working earlier than planned: 2 in 5	Harper's Index Source: McKinsey & Company (N.Y.C.)
Aug 2006	Number of giant inflatable rats that U.S. unions have purchased to protest non-union projects: 285 Hours it takes four non-union laborers to make each rat: 50	Harper's Index Source: Inflatable Images (Brunswick, Ohio)
Jul 2004	Percentage change between 2001 and 2002 in the number of Teamster officials earning six-figure salaries : +20	Harper's Index Source: Teamsters for a Democratic Union (Detroit)
May 2004	Percentage of U.S. companies that threaten to close the work site when faced with a unionization effort : 51	Harper's Index Source: Kate Bronfenbrenner, Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Dec 2003	Number of new government jobs created since 2000: 721,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Labor
Dec 2003	Number of times Democratic presidential candidates used the word “jobs” in their first four debates after Labor Day: 111	Harper's Index Source: National Democratic Committee transcripts/Congressional Black Caucus transcript
Dec 2003	Percentage change last year in the number of applications for the most common U.S. professional-worker visas: -40	Harper's Index Source: American Electronics Association (Washington)
Oct 2003	Number of Democratic legislators absent for this year's 213n210 vote restricting workers' overtime-pay eligibility : 7	Harper's Index Source: U.S. House of Representatives
Aug 2003	Change since March 2001 in the number of working-age Americans who are neither working nor looking for work: +3,600,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jul 2003	Amount by which the number of government jobs in the U.S. exceeds the number of manufacturing jobs: 5,129,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jun 2003	Percentage unemployment in Palestine, West Virginia, the hometown of former POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch: 15	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jun 2003	Number of states in which Wal-Mart is the largest employer: 21	Harper's Index Source: Wal-Mart (Bentonville, Ark.)
May 2003	Percentage change since 1968 in the real value of the U.S. federal minimum wage: -37	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Sep 2002	Number of appearances made by labor representatives on U.S. network nightly newscasts last year: 31	Harper's Index Source: Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (N.Y.C.)
Sep 2002	Chance that a U.S. employer faced with a union drive in 1998 or 1999 illegally fired a pro-union worker: 1 in 4	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission (Washington)
Sep 2002	Estimated percentage of work-related deaths worldwide last year that were caused by communicable disease: 16	Harper's Index Source: International Labour Organization (Geneva)/Harper's research
Aug 2002	Chance, worldwide, that a child performs work that endangers his or her health: 1 in 9	Harper's Index Source: International Labour Organization (Geneva)
Dec 2001	Percentage change between 1998 and 1999 in the number of women construction workers: +36	Harper's Index Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (Washington)
Aug 2001	Number of new worker-protection rules whose enactment Bush ordered postponed on his first day in office: 9	Harper's Index Source: A.F.L.-C.I.O. (Washington)/Harper's research
Nov 2000	Estimated number of hours of labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865: 222,505,049	Harper's Index Source: Clarence J. Munford, Race and Reparations, African World Press, Inc. (Trenton, N.J.)
Nov 2000	Estimated value of the labor performed by African-American slaves between 1619 and 1865, compounded at 6 percent interest through 1993: $97,100,000,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Richard F. America, Ed., The Wealth of Races, Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.)
Jun 2000	Number of years Karl Marx spent writing opinion pieces for the New-York Daily Tribune before publishing Das Kapital : 10	Harper's Index Source: Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale Group (Farmington Hills, Mo.)
Jun 2000	Number of years after the term “confidence man” was coined in 1849 that the word “industrialist” was introduced: 15	Harper's Index Source: Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press (N.Y.C.)
Jun 2000	Weeks before Peru's national election last April that President Alberto Fujimori raised the minimum wage by 18 percent: 4	Harper's Index Source: Embassy of Peru (Washington)
Apr 2000	Percentage change between 1965 and 1995 in the number of U.S. households that pay for housecleaning: +53	Harper's Index Source: Mediamark Research Inc. (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2000	Months after publishing The Communist Manifesto that Karl Marx became editor of a newspaper funded by industrialists: 2	Harper's Index Source: The Marx-Engels Correspondence, Wiedenfeld &Nicolson (London)
May 1999	Chance that a member of the American Association of Retired Persons holds a paying job: 1 in 3	Harper's Index Source: AARP (Washington)
Feb 1999	Number of tourists taken hostage by striking Club Med workers in Martinique for three days last November: 287	Harper's Index Source: Club Med, Inc. (N.Y.C.)
Feb 1999	Average profit U.S. businesses earn per worker for every $1 spent on salary and benefits: $2.15	Harper's Index Source: Saratoga Institute (Santa Clara, Calif.)
Jan 1999	Percentage change since 1994 in the number of votes cast by members of union households: +66	Harper's Index Source: AFL-CIO (Washington)
Jan 1999	Hours after ABC's technical union declared a strike last fall that Al Gore canceled an ABC interview: 12	Harper's Index Source: Office of the Vice President (Washington)

June 8, 2008	Unemployment rose half a percentage point to 5.5 percent, the largest one-month increase since 1986. Oil prices surged by more than $11 a barrel to a new high of $138.54, and the stock market suffered a 3 percent drop.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: New York Times
September 23, 2007	General Motors workers went on strike.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
July 15, 2007	Garbage was overflowing in parts of Oakland, California, after two weeks of dispute between Waste Management, Inc., and Teamsters Local 70. “It stinks,” said Oakland resident Jarod Smith.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source: SF Chron
December 13, 2006	In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers, the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the truck and it exploded, killing 70 people and wounding 236.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: NYT
October 12, 2006	Chinese Wal-Mart workers unionized.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: International Herald Tribune
September 22, 2006	Fruit farmers rallied in Washington, D.C., to protest a shortage of low-wage, uninsured, illegal immigrant laborers.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: New York times
April 23, 2006	An Oakland, California, carpenter named Percy Honnibal was in trouble for carpentering naked.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNN.com
April 16, 2006	Roger Toussaint, the head of the Transport Workers Union in New York City, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for leading a transit strike in December 2005.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Newsday
October 4, 2005	Between 470,000 and one million French workers demonstrated in support of labor rights.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: AP
July 13, 2005	The NHL and Player's Association came to an agreement and announced that hockey could start up again.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CBC
June 7, 2005	General Motors announced that it will eliminate the jobs of 25,000 blue-collar workers in the United States by the end of 2008; the cuts amount to 22 percent of the company's hourly work force.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Washington Post
February 22, 2005	UNICEF reported that 180 million children aged five to seventeen are forced into the “worst forms” of labor, including the sex and slave trades.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: HindustanTimes.com
February 13, 2005	Wal-Mart agreed to pay $135,540 in fines for breaking child-labor laws.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: ABC News
February 9, 2005	Wal-Mart announced plans to close a store in Canada after the store's workers unionized.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Street
November 19, 2004	A union representing U.N. staff registered a vote of no confidence in the U.N.'s senior management.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Fox News
August 7, 2004	fewer jobs were being created, crude oil prices reached a record high of $44.41,	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
October 3, 2003	Garbage was piling up in Chicago,	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
February 26, 2002	Britons, who waste an estimated 286 million work hours every week, celebrated National Slacker Day.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
August 14, 2001	By the time the President returns to Washington, D.C., on Labor Day, he will have spent almost half his presidency at vacation spots.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
December 12, 2000	Edmond Pope, an American businessman, was sentenced, after a Moscow show trial, to twenty years' hard labor for trying to buy nonclassified information about a torpedo; the judge in the case took just two hours to produce a twenty-page decision. President Putin said he would accept the recommendation of the pardon commission to release Pope; the commission's chairman noted that Russians “are a magnanimous people, although legends circulate in the world about our cruelty.”	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
December 5, 2000	Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers rebel group, announced that he was ready to negotiate a peace; the government issued a press release saying they would fight “until the enemy is totally eliminated.” Venezuela's supreme court ruled that President Hugo Chávez can proceed with a referendum to ban independent labor unions and replace them with one national government-controlled union loyal to President Hugo Chávez.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
December 5, 2000	The Pentagon was using sweatshop labor in Nicaragua to make uniforms.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
October 3, 2000	British prime minister Tony Blair attended a Labor party conference; “Let's Work Together,” by Canned Heat, was the theme song.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
September 12, 2000	President Hugo Chávez, having successfully consolidated his personal control of every branch of the Venezuelan government, turned his attention to private civic groups and said he would demolish the country's main labor union and replace it with one dominated by the government.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge
August 1, 2000	Over fifty multinational corporations, many of whom have been criticized for using sweatshop and child labor in poor countries, signed a global compact to end the use of sweatshop and child labor in poor countries.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

518	September 1859 Poem A homely song of toil SEE ALSO: Labor PDF IMAGES

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