The Protection of Unskilled Labor in the United States Manufacturing Industries: Further Evidence

1980 ◽  
Vol 88 (6) ◽  
pp. 1249-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don P. Clark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Unskilled Labor

Establishment size and employment stability in logging and sawmilling: a comparative analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G Lee ◽  
Penelope Jennings Eckert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Employment Stability ◽  
Establishment Size ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Competitive Nature

Wood products employment stability (defined as year-to-year variation) was examined as a function of establishment size (grouped by number of employees). Small- and medium-sized establishments were consistently found to be more stable than large establishments. Comparison of Washington, Oregon, the United States, and Japan showed that the relationship between establishment size and employment stability was maintained regardless of long-term growth or decline in wood-products employment. Moreover, the smaller wood-products establishments in the United States were found to be more stable than the smaller establishments in other manufacturing industries. Structural stability in employment has been associated with the highly competitive nature of smaller wood-products establishments. Employment stability can best be promoted by policies that support the continued viability of smaller establishments.

Unwanted

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maddalena Marinari
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
European Ancestry ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Unskilled Labor ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Citizen Activism

In the late nineteenth century, Italians and Eastern European Jews joined millions of migrants around the globe who left their countries to take advantage of the demand for unskilled labor in rapidly industrializing nations, including the United States. Many Americans of northern and western European ancestry regarded these newcomers as biologically and culturally inferior--unassimilable--and by 1924, the United States had instituted national origins quotas to curtail immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Weaving together political, social, and transnational history, Maddalena Marinari examines how, from 1882 to 1965, Italian and Jewish reformers profoundly influenced the country’s immigration policy as they mobilized against the immigration laws that marked them as undesirable. Strategic alliances among restrictionist legislators in Congress, a climate of anti-immigrant hysteria, and a fickle executive branch often left these immigrants with few options except to negotiate and accept political compromises. As they tested the limits of citizenship and citizen activism, however, the actors at the heart of Marinari’s story shaped the terms of debate around immigration in the United States in ways we still reckon with today.

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