Debate: Inside or Outside the Democratic Party

[Excerpt] Since the New Deal, the dominant political strategy of American labor has been to work within the Democratic Party for legislative and other political aims. While sentiment for a party of our own has never disappeared in union circles, there has not been much serious talk of third party politics in mainstream unions for some time. Lately, however, such talk has increased

Overcoming Obstacles to Transformation: Challenges on the Way to a New Unionism

[Excerpt] The change to organizing requires more than a shift in resources. It is difficult to imagine a sustained commitment to organizing at the grass roots unless locals have the tools, skills, and strategic perspective necessary to mount successful organizing campaigns. Ultimately the commitment to building the labor movement inherent in the organizing priority challenges unions to alter organizational cultures that are often deeply imbued with traditional and conservative approaches to trade unionism. The struggle to succeed at organizing, to maintain representation, and to alter union culture is forcing national unions to define their role in this process and to reassess their relationships with locals. A key objective of the research reported here is to help clarify the issues at stake in the process of the change to organizing at the local level. Although there are few definitive answers, the experiences of locals struggling with the realities of juggling organizing and representational responsibilities should guide the search for sustainable conversion

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Method of igniting solid propellants Patent

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Exploring the Meaning Doctoral Candidates Ascribed to Their Persistence, and the Challenges and Barriers They Experienced

Education and Human Ecology: 1st Place (The Ohio State University Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum)The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning doctoral candidates ascribed to their persistence in doctoral programs, and the challenges and barriers they experienced impeding a timely completion of their dissertations. Participants included six doctoral candidates in the field of Education who had been in the dissertation phase of their programs for at least one academic year (up to four academic years) and had yet to complete a dissertation research proposal. The themes that emerged as a result of this study were: (a) a lack of a sense of community; (b) ineffective advisor-advisee relations; and (c) momentum loss.No embarg

A Study Of The Economic Status Of Fifty Negro Farmers Of Matagorda County, Texas

A Historical Summary of Matagorda County Matagorda County is of level prairie, sloping to the sea on lower coastal plain bordering the Gulf of Mexico. Matagorda Penisula extends forty miles in Southwest direction, enclosing Matagorda Bay. Drained by the Colorado Hiver, Tres Palacious River, and Caney Creek. It is one of the Original Counties, created 1836, organized 1837, and named for the early municipality of Matagorda. Has a sea-level altitude to 50 feet, annual rainfall 42.48 inches, mean annual temperature is 69 degrees. Resources: Loams, coastal clays, sandy soils with alluvials in bottoms. Liveoak, cedar, ash, Cottonwood, elm, pecan; limited production. Oil production 4,562,85$ bbls., gas, brick, and tile clay, mud shell. Sulphur production being heavy in former years, but has declined recently

Doctor of Philosophy

thesisTRIGONOMETRIC SERIES APPLIED TO BENDING OF THIN RECTANGULAR PLATES Harvey Jr. Fletcher From the Department of Mathematics University of Utah In Part I, the sine transform is used to obtain the solution of the problem of a thin rectangular plate on an elastic foundation. A table of inverse sine and cosine transforms is given, with emphasis on inverse transforms of simple rational functions. In Part II, a double sine series is used to solve problems of a rectangular plate which has every edge either clamped, supported, or free. All 81 possible combinations of edge conditions are considered. Considerable attention is given to the role of corner deflections and concentrated loads at corners where two free edges meet