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This is the first peer-reviewed article describing the process for teaching Web-based writing and communication in a college setting.

While it's certainly dated, it still provides a useful historical perspective on the issues and methods used in the business communication classroom.

Written by Chiazam Ugo Okoye (Prof. of Political Science, Bethune Cookman College), President Reagan's Conservative Fiscal Policy: Unemployment Among African Americans is a scholarly and critical look at the economic policies of America under President Regan (1981-1988), and their failure to adequately address the social issue of rising unemployment among African American youths, with devastating long-term social consequences. Drawing upon a wealth of statistical and researched data, President Reagan's Conservative Fiscal Policy criticizes economic models that treat labor as no more unique or differentiated a commodity than orange juice, and question the value of programs to help the unemployed in the Reagan era that targeted those job-seekers who needed help the least. Stressing that discrimination has been severely underplayed rather than regarded as a primary cause of African American unemployment, President Reagan's Conservative Fiscal Policy decries America's failure to break a vicious cycle of poverty, crime, and unemployment among African Americans and meticulously dissectes what did not work for the benefit of future efforts to combat this social problem. Highly recommended.

Because Alan Alda and a young Warren Farrell often get sole credit as the late 20th century male feminist icons, it is very instructive to remember that John F. Kennedy (although conservative with equity issues when compared against America's current policy expectations) instituted the President's Commission on the Status of Women during the early 1960's to 'study' and 'recommend' improvements in the status of American women.

Forcing America to confront very uncomfortable truths about their socioloegal treatment of women (pregnancy discrimination, wage discrimination...etc) versus the idealized norm on television sitcoms, the PCSW was a veritable star-studded list of prominent women (and some men including Attorney General Robert Kennedy) who had acchieved modest public success in the pre-feminist era. Again reflecting the time, sexuality issues (contraception, abortion, GLBT issues) are noticeably absent from their public discussion. The sheer importance of this document easily compensates for it's now-limited agenda.

There are many important reasons why this commission was created.

Concerned about the image of 'fairness' during the Cold War, the Kennedy administration also tried to gain the approval of women voters (who actually had preferred Nixon during the 1960 elections) and settle ongoing intra-party skirmishes over the Equal Rights Amendment in an era when unions and many first wave feminists still believed that only women should receive workplace 'protection'. The Kennedy administration was also attempting to blunt criticism for not appointing at least one woman to a cabinet position.

In their final report (October 1963) the commission essentially forecast the rise of American feminism's "second wave" if the reported conditions did not drastically change. America was unable to continue as it had been doing, and 'women's concerns' WERE serious business. The commission did not fully predict the future, but it knew the country had to acknowledge the damaging effects of sex discrimination.

However limited from our current policy research models (too much generalizing on the experiences of white middle class heterosexuals without disabilities) the presidential backing behind an investigation of women's current rights obviously prompted other American women to begin asking questions about their own status. Women once considering their PCSW work 'radical' then began looking for other opportunities where their newly minted knowledge could be applied.

The commission's obvious lack of enforcement power had prompted some PSCW veterans and author Betty Friedan to form the National Organization for Women (1966). Through conscious public action, JFK ultimately helped to revive American feminism.

The book is a basic guide for those purchasing professional who are willing to seriously re-think the whole Procurement Process with a creative problem-solving approach. "Procurement Reengineering" provides you with all the necessary tools to analyse your current Purchasing organization and reinvent it giving also a few theoretical concepts about the BPR, best practices and fresh ideas. It is the necessary starting point even for the implementation of e-procurement projects.

This is a most fascinating subject that is possibly classified counter intelligence!

This unique book provides step-by-step guidance to evaluating psychiatric claims in workers' compensation. It analyzes the definition of a mental disorder using the DSMIV-R, its application in the workers' compensation arena, and causation in the legal concept. It then discusses disability evaluation, apportionment or successive disability issues, rehabilitation, stress, psychiatric treatment, testing, and expert testimony. It also shows you how to handle depositions, trial preparations, and trial tactics and strategies.

For those who are students of I/O Psychology, team dynamics, self-managing teams, and all of the many ways that management science has tried to improve our lives over the past 40 years this is a must have! This book contains many of the original pieces that are cited over and over in newer management texts. Nothing like going back to the original source material!

Este libro es excelente, especialmente, cuando trae a la luz publica la historia de los marginaldos de la Isla. El ensayo de Felix Matos es excelente por ayuda conocer mejor sobre la aportación de la mujer negra en nuestra historia. El ensayo sobre la prostitución es novel. Todos ensayos presentan la lucha de la mujer por la alcanzar su igualdad en una sociedad patriacal que existe en Latino America. Pienso que todo que se considere la historia un asunto serio debe lee este libro.

The Pullman Case is a very well written account of the American Railway Union strike. Despite the seemingly dry material, the author manages to be concise and makes otherwise bland events quite entertaining. I highly recommend this book for gaining an appreciation of the historical underpinnings of the battle between labor and capital in America.

Martin Loney demolishes - rather convincingly - the rhetoric that underpins race and gender preferences in the Canadian workplace. He demonstrates that women and visible minorities, contrary to being victims of discriminatory employment practices, are at a conspicuous advantage when it comes to raises, promotions, and securing highly prized appointments. He also plots the astonishing growth of the feminist and multicultural "grievance industry" which comprises a vast network of feminist academics and group-think equity bureaucrats.

Contributing little to society other than advocacy propaganda and a drain on the public purse, equity advocates have used their alleged "victim" status to pad their bank accounts and carve out lucrative jobs in the public sector. Worse, this cartel of special-interest groups has assiduously mounted an intimidation campaign designed to muzzle anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of affirmative action.

Loney's investigative prowess exposes the pressure tactics that equity zealots employ to invent ever-more absurd and anti-democratic legislation for the purpose of favoring designated groups over white males. He lays bare the biased research and "meretricious" use of statistics that equity advocates depend on to sway politicians into adopting preferential hiring policies. These policies simply add more layers to an already bloated bureaucracy. Embittered and self-interested preferential hiring activists have successfully duped an accommodating federal government by brandishing a misleading platform that operates under the pretense of catch-phrases like "social justice" "equity" and "progressive reform". And finally, Loney examines the intrinsically immoral practice of asserting the salience of race and gender at the expense of merit, fairness and intellectual honesty. This well-researched book is essential reading.