World War II
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Debunking Myths of a Pro-Business Supreme Court
… Sunday's New York Times , arguing that the Court led by Chief Justice John Roberts is the most business-friendly since World War II . A recent study published in the Minnesota Law Review [pdf] by Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals …
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The Last Word: Gen Why?
… me repeat that: It does not matter. Ultimately, whether your values and attitudes were shaped by the Great Depression, World War II , Neil Armstrong's giant leap to the moon, or 9/11, most of us want the same things: A warm body to hug, a little …
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Soaring Through the Clouds With 'Lucky Lindy'
… though your luggage doesn't fly for free like it used to—is still a luxury that wasn't available to most people before World War II . The concept of calling a travel agent and saying, "Book me on the last flight out of O'Hare to New York; I have a …
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Reflections on Our 90th Anniversary and a Few Thanks
… their way back. But will jobs be waiting for them? In March, Greengard explored the difference between the job front post- World War II and now . In November, the unemployment rate for Gulf War-era II veterans, for instance, was 10 percent compared with …
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The Temp Industry's Dark Side
… loose tooth. (Not on your time anyway!)"This take on employees ran counter to management and HR thinking of the post- World War II period that viewed employees as assets and focused on satisfying them as a route to stronger business results. But it also …
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2012 Game Changer: Danielle Dorter
… generations working together at ID Media, which has offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. "We have folks from the World War II generation, boomers, Gen X and millennials, so there are a lot of challenges with how they view each other. About 65 percent …
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Meet Myers-Briggs
… psychologist Carl Jung, Myers-Briggs was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother, Katharine Cook Briggs, during World War II . The two women were acquainted with Jung's theories and sought to apply them to help civilians choose wartime jobs well …
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Then & Now: There's Work to be Done
… devastation they had witnessed during World War II to the jubilance and "normalcy" that ..... behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, World War II vets returned home to financial uncertainty ..... influence on the military and society than World War II . Although World War II revved up the …
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Deal or No Deal? The 'Employee Value Proposition' Evolves
… autoworkers to $5 a day under the theory that a wealthier working class would be able to buy the cars he was making. After World War II , still greater harmony reigned as labor reforms provided basic protections around workplace safety and unemployment benefits …
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Fighting for Employment: Veterans in the '40s and Today
… devastation they had witnessed during World War II to the jubilance and normalcy that awaited ..... behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, World War II vets returned home to financial uncertainty ..... from a variety of wars and conflicts: World War II , Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I and Gulf …
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Workforce Impact At-a-Glance
… left behind when they went to fight in World War II . In the 1970s, women started to go ..... grow because of wage controls during World War II . Between 1940 and 1950, the total ..... factories and on construction sites during World War II . Many of the women worked in munitions …
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Tournament Update
… Todd Johnson prophetically stated in his bracketology. Rosie the Riveter, the symbol of women working in factories during World War II , has a big lead over the Postal Worker Strike of 1970, and Disaster Planning isn't even making it a contest in its bid …
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The Birth of the Golden Years
… Security Act, signed into law in 1935, meant that retirement no longer was exclusively self-financed. And tax changes during World War II stimulated the spread of private pension plans. By 1949, pensions were viewed in some industries as a social obligation …
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A Little Labor Knowledge Could Go a Long Way for HR as Unions Push Into Private Sector
… Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. Since then the role of HR has changed dramatically. “Post- World War II , you had a labor relations manager and an HR manager,” Berg says. “They were the buffers between workers and management …
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The Last Word: Backyard Retirement Plan
… California-based investment advisers Financial Engines, nearly half of all boomers—those of us born between post- World War II and the early 1960s—fear that retirement will result in poverty. Scarier still, an upcoming Aon Hewitt report reveals …
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Nicholas Katzenbach (1922-2012): A Civil Rights Leader's Legacy
… since to strengthen it and to add protections to more workers.) Katzenbach, who was a prisoner of war for two years during World War II , knew something about going into unfriendly territory. In a time when Jim Crow segregation laws were still in force in the …
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Cracking Open Today's Retirement Strategies
… easy to forget that employment retirement benefits have always been voluntary. They came to prominence in the 1940s after World War II as a tool to attract and hold on to workers during a time of federal wage controls to curb inflation.In the 1950s, '60s …
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'Kelly Girl' Turns 66: An Interview With Carl Camden
… that can be traced back to the company's origins post- World War II ? Camden: For years, we've stayed close to the military ..... percent of all labor by 2020. If you go back to the pre- World War II speeches, it was, 'We were a country of craftsmen, small …
