...about America and what it had to provide, a vast amount of immigrants started pouring in, in search of a better life and better fortune. The industries of Eastern United States keenly employed these immigrants because they were willing to work long hours for low wages, and the rich capitalists took advantage of this situation. Capitalists and the incoming immigrants never saw eye to eye, and strikes would break out often, some ending in violence or death. Most workers had no political freedom nor even have a voice in the company that employed them because of the industrial system that curtailed their rights. The life of a nineteenth century American industrial worker was far from easy, even during what seem to be good times, wages were low, hours long and work conditions dangerous. The general issue that raised between the two, what has for many years before is that, little of the wealth being made is being distributed to the working class. This situation was worse for women and children who took up more of the work force than men, and still made half of what men usually would make. Work conditions were often tedious because workers would do tasks over and over while working an average 10 hour days, six days a week. Since there was a lack of government regulation, it led to unsafe and unhealthy work sites; and most employers did not offer payment if any of their workers got hurt or killed on the job site. An example of poor work conditions is in Out of This Furnace when Mike...
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...In response to the rapid industrialization western farmers retaliated politically with the birth of the Populist Party while urban industrial workers responded to industrialization with the formation of labor unions and...
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...but their employee morale. It has had an adverse affect on the company and consumers both here in the Unites States and abroad. The ethical conflict facing Starbucks in Chile is that is the fact that their workers, whose wages start at a mere $2.50 an hour are so low that they cannot even buy themselves lunch. The wages have not increased in eight years there according to one supervisor. There was also concern around healthcare benefits that were not being offered by the 30 Chilean Starbucks locations. Due to these unfair conditions, a union was formed to increase the benefits of the Starbucks employees. Obviously due to these conditions, the employee morale could not have been good if they were proposing a strike against the store and had a willingness to walk out unless certain terms were agreed upon. By having wages that were so low and only being offered two free coffees a day, I am positive that the employees felt no sense if purpose or value to the company. In regard to the economic impact, 30 Chilean Starbucks strikes could have a huge impact on the Chilean economy and the Starbucks franchise in general. There are a couple of ideas to take into consideration if this occurred. Starbucks, being a profitable entity could give in to the demands of the workers and still end up finding that the losses would be less than having 30 of 31 locations be on strike for many...
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...Unfair Union Labor at Starbucks Introduction Starbucks is one of those brand names who do not need an ideal introduction. Rather, it is a brand that explains itself. With more than 21000 retail outlets in more than 65 countries of the world clearly defines the magnitude of its success and achievements. The company has darted into a market with competitors like McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts. Whenever, one wishes to have coffee, it is simply impossible to ignore the position Starbucks hold in delivering coffee to the large masses of the world. Starbucks wishes to achieve these major areas for becoming the part of lives of their customers. Firstly, they focus on quality of the coffee as they consider it to be the key point in determining the picture of Starbucks in minds of the consumers. It should be noted that they provide good quality because they plan to deliver services for longer period of time. Secondly, they believe in product innovation and retail expansion. As previously mentioned, they plan to capture people as well as they want to stay in their hearts for long. History Starbucks first came into being in 1971 by three of the local businessmen in Seattle, Washington, D.C. It was their mission to deliver whole bean coffee to the customers in order to create value of their product. After three years, Howard Schultz visited the restaurant. It was his idea to expand this restaurant into coffee-shop which has grand setup including different types of outlets worldwide. He...
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...Wood vs. Haywood On January 12, 1912, an army of Industrial Workers of the World went on strike from the Wood Mill. They took to the streets to protest their unfair treatment in the workplace and refused to go back in until they got what they wanted: higher wages, better hours, and proper treatment. Two of the heads of the conflict were William M. “Billy” Wood and William D. “Big Bill” Haywood. Billy Wood was the owner of the Wood Mill and Big Bill, who was considered ‘the Lincoln of labor’, was leading the IWW. Both men and their parties stood their ground until the strike was finally resolved two months later. I intend to ask both men about why they stood by their respected parties and never wavered. What would Wood have done if he was in some of the situations the strikers were in? Why does Haywood stand up for the workers? All these questions will be answered on “American Dream.” Jewett: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to this week’s episode of “American Dream.” As you all know, each week we bring in a historical figure or figures from America’s past and discuss the issues they lived through. This week, our guests will be William M. “Billy” Wood and William D. “Big Bill” Haywood who both played major roles in the Bread and Roses Strike in 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Billy Wood, as he was called, owned the Wood Mill, which was apart of the American Woolen Company. When he died in 1926, he was one of the richest men in America1. Mr. Haywood, who is...
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...Business Ownership P1 Organisation 1 – NHS The NHS is a national public sector health service maintained and paid for by the UK. The NHS was founded in 1948 in an attempt by the then heath secretary, Aneurin Bevan, to bring good healthcare to all. It was founded to provide affordable healthcare to the citizens of the UK who need it. Today the NHS has a very good reputation as it continues to provide good healthcare to those in need, they currently employ over 1.6 million government people to achieve this endeavour. The NHS is a national business as it only operates in the UK and only provides its services to those living in the UK. It only operates in the tertiary sector as they provide a service for the public but do not manufacture, sell or harvest raw materials. Because it is a public business it doesn’t make a profit instead it uses it’s funding to help with the financial burden of medical procedures. There are down sides to this for example the NHS don’t always have the most up to date equipment. Because the service is maintained and paid for by the government they are the ones that will be held liable for any problems with the way the NHS runs or if it overspends. The NHS is limited by their annual budget for the year 2015 their budget was £115 Billion. Organisation 2 - Starbucks Starbucks Coffee is a privately owned American global coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Public limited companies become a legal entity whose assets and liability are separate from their...
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...has also clashed with workers who tried unsuccessfully to organize in Europe and New Zealand, and it has battled with unionized workers in North America, where 300 employees are members of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. Chile, which Starbucks entered in 2003, is the only country where Starbucks operates with a sizeable union presence. Roughly a third of the company's 670 baristas there are organized. In April, the union presented Starbucks with a proposal seeking a monthly lunch bonus of $100 and listing about 20 other requests, such as having the company assume the full cost of employee health insurance. Because the demands haven't been met, the union voted on June 25 to strike. "We feel their list of demands far exceed the industry and business norms for Chile," Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson said. He added that Starbucks offers a number of benefits that go "far above and beyond" what other retailers in Chile offer employees. All Starbucks workers there get a 30% discount on food sold in the stores, 70% of their health-care costs paid by the company and company stock. For the strike to be valid, half of the unionized Chilean members, plus one, have to walk out Thursday. If the strike does occur, "we still believe we'll be able to keep all of our stores open," Mr. Olson said. Mr. Giordano said that the company has threatened to fire or withhold promotions for the organized workers. As a result, Mr. Giordano said, the number of workers in the union has dropped...
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...Running header: COFFEE 1 STARBUCKS COFFEE: SWOT ANALYSIS VANESSA HARRISON-HARVEY Starbucks is the leading retailer and roaster for brand specialty coffee in the world. Starbucks is a global organization with more than 18,000 retails in sixty-two countries in the entire United States. Starbucks mission is to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time. The principle Starbucks represents every day is their coffee, their partners, customers, stores, neighborhood and their shareholders. Starbucks believes that conducting business ethically and striving to do the right thing is vital to the success of the company. Their business ethics and compliance programs supports Starbucks mission and helps to protect their culture and reputation by providing resources that help partners make ethical decisions at work. A SWOT analysis of the company is listed; Strengths: Starbucks strengths consist of having outlets positioned in high street locations, and malls within other business areas like office buildings. They maintain a high quality of service, are one of the strongest franchises in the world with more than 6500 license shops in the world. They are known for their phenomenal selection of flavor variations, maintaining a limited number of strong competitors, a high market growth, and above all always treating employees as partners and not just employees. Weaknesses: The fact that Starbucks has enormous strengths...
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...David Graeber likes to say that he had three goals for the year: promote his book, learn to drive, and launch a worldwide revolution. The first is going well, the second has proven challenging, and the third is looking up. Graeber is a 50-year-old anthropologist—among the brightest, some argue, of his generation—who made his name with innovative theories on exchange and value, exploring phenomena such as Iroquois wampum and the Kwakiutl potlatch. An American, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. He’s also an anarchist and radical organizer, a veteran of many of the major left-wing demonstrations of the past decade: Quebec City and Genoa, the Republican National Convention protests in Philadelphia and New York, the World Economic Forum in New York in 2002, the London tuition protests earlier this year. This summer, Graeber was a key member of a small band of activists who quietly planned, then noisily carried out, the occupation of Lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, providing the focal point for what has grown into an amorphous global movement known as Occupy Wall Street. It would be wrong to call Graeber a leader of the protesters, since their insistently nonhierarchical philosophy makes such a concept heretical. Nor is he a spokesman, since they have refused thus far to outline specific demands. Even in Zuccotti Park, his name isn’t widely known. But he has been one of the group’s most articulate voices, able to frame the movement’s welter of hopes and grievances...
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...Starbucks Global Responsibility Report Starbucks focuses on many different facets with their global responsibility. They have tactics at the store level specifically relating to environmental efforts. At this level Starbucks has developed green building and energy and water conservation strategies. Recycling is also very important to Starbucks and they have been working diligently to make their packaging more broadly recyclable. Not only has Starbucks been working on their side in making materials more recyclable, they have also been working to develop improvements with local recycling infrastructures. Starbucks continues to encourage reusable cups by providing a discount of 10 cents on each drink purchase where the customer’s reusable cup is filled instead of a recyclable Starbucks cup. In 2009, an LED lighting initiative was developed and they have already converted over 7,000 stores which has resulted in a decrease in energy consumption by 3.3%. Water use has been reduced by 25% by eliminating dipper wells and replacing with manually operated versions. Starbuck has joined the U.S. Green Building Council and is trying to reach the goal that all of their stores will be built to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Currently they have six stores that have been built or renovated to achieve LEED standards. Inside these stores customers will find reused and recycled materials and local sourced elements, as well as innovative features to conserve...
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...passage to America | Crédit Mobilier Company | A construction company set up by the directors of the Union Pacific in 1867 in order to build part of their transcontinental railroadin essence, they were their own subcontractors and awarded themselves generous contracts | craft union | Union of skilled laborers, the type of union assembled under the American Federation of Labor | horizontal integration | The system by which a business takes over its competitors in order to limit competition, lower costs, and maximize profits | Industrial Revolution | Transformation in the way goods were made and sold, as American businessmen between 1865 and 1915 used continuing technological breakthroughs and creative financing to bring greater efficiency to their businesses | International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) | Major New York City union that often conducted its union meetings in five different languages simultaneously | International Workers of the World (IWW) | A collection of militant mining unions founded in 1905 in Colorado and Idaho; sought to use labor activism to overthrow the capitalist system | mugwumps | The machine’s...
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...After World War One, the men returning needed employment. Many women had to return home, and men were expected to return to their daily lives before the war. Many things had changed while they were gone, such as prohibition, labour unrest, and the influenza epidemic. Men also had to face their own mental struggles after the war, making it hard to find employment if you’re not in a healthy mental state. This would affect the soldier’s life after the war, and could make it difficult to find employment. Canada had changed, and there were many factors that could affect the economic state during that time period. In the life of a man returning from war, it would be very stressful and hard for them to find an employment opportunity. A main factor that would affect a soldier’s life, and employment opportunities, is prohibition. Prohibition was aimed to eliminate cigarettes, alcohol, and gambling. Many soldiers were filled with stress after returning home from the war. Men often relieved stress by sitting down, having a beer, and relaxing. Prohibition made it hard to obtain alcohol, seeing as it could not be sold. If a soldier is filled with stress, he would be more likely not to find a job. Stress can cause disease, lack of sleep, nervousness, and many other symptoms. An employer would be looking for an employee that is calm, relaxed, and collected. Also, if there is no selling of alcohol, it is taking more potential jobs away from soldiers. Canadian prohibition ended in 1919, allowing...
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...Industrial/Organizational Psychology Melissa Hayes January 16, 2012 Industrial/Organizational psychology is a type of psychology that is used in organizations. Industrial organization is one part of the psychology that deals with me and partnerships threw out the organization. Industrial psychology focuses on the different types of human resources that are provided. Organizational psychology is the individual’s in a work areas behavior, efficiency, and attitude. The psychiatrists that deal with Industrial/Organizational psychology have to take everyone’s differences and try to make the company run a lot smoother. There are different ways they can help things improve and that is by rewarding their workers when they have done a good job, and using different techniques to improve the way everyone works. These psychiatrists come up with ways to eliminate or minimize the injuries that are on the job, review job applications, and find ways to increase the organizational. Industrial/Organizational psychology was developed some time in the 20th century. We have to learn psychology and what it is in order to use psychology. Hugo Munsterberg and Walter Dill Scott were part of the psychiatrist that made the job more efficient. Additionally, Munsterberg and Scott used psychology to the issues which exists in companies (Spector, 2008). Each employee is reviewed to make sure they were suitable for the job they were hired for. Frederick Winslow Taylor was an engineer that used Industrial/Organizational...
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...The Industrial Revolution was a time of prosperity and improvements. During this time, which was the 19th century in England and 20th century in the U.S, many factories sprung up and many people moved to the cities in search of jobs. Almost everyone was working in factories during this time because that’s the jobs that were needed. Working conditions were horrible, as many workers were crammed into a small workspace where many accidents occurred. This led to lots of injuries and deaths. The Industrial Revolution started because most countries were advancing in technology and were in need of lots of goods. During the Industrial Revolution, working conditions were terrible for workers because owners only wanted money. Industrialization caused...
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...Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was an unprecedented period in European history that occured in 18th and 19th century. It represents one of the most significant eras of the modern European history, during which major changes took place in everyday lives of millions across the continent and further beyond. These major changes included improvements in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation and technology, withboth, positive and negative consequences. The main focus of the essay will be the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain (after 1707), an empire (U.K.) that included colonies from all over the world. Practiacally, the Great Britain is the place where it all began. The question is why does the Industrial Revolution occurs in the Great Britain? There are many reasons. The most significant one is that the Britain had an empire which included colonies from Canada to Austalia. It controlled many trade channels and imposed itself as the leading naval superpower. The preconditions were fulfilled and the Britain practically controlled half of the world before, for example, Germany was even unified. The colonies provided many raw materials, with many of them being so rare, that they could be found only in those particular parts of the world. The industrialization, however, had not took place in Britain's colonies. This was not a coincidence, on the contrary. By this, the Great Britain made an access to new markets. Indeed, it does sound absurd that the...
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