Phelps Dodge Corporation, a copper mining magnate, had a long and storied history of taking preemptive measures to stifle the influence of labor unions upon the company. These actions characterized Phelps Dodge as a money-hungry corporation having disdain for the common laborer. In 1981, copper production in the United States met strong competition in the global market from mining companies invested in Zaire, Canada, Australia, Indonesia, and throughout South America (Rosenblum, 1998). Labor costs in these nations were as little as 8% of that in Morenci, Arizona, where Phelps Dodge concentrated its U.S. mining efforts (Rosenblum, 1998). Meanwhile Phelps Dodge had also begun to invest in foreign mining operations in order to keep pace with its competitors, which required huge outlays of capital.
BUS519 “British Petroleum (PLC) and John Browne: A Culture of Risk Beyond” Project Risk Management Strayer University July 29, 2012 Prepare a two-day workshop agenda encompassing this case. The case study surrounds the investigation of the British Petroleum of two independent investigators, which placed the Board of the British Petroleum in the precarious position, after the investigative reports were released about the 2005 explosion at an oil refinery on Texas City in the United States, which killed 15 people and injured over 180 people. Hillson and Simon (2007) explain that the importance risk workshop cannot be understated and that because of the cost and time involved in coordinating and participating in the workshop activities, the outcomes from the risk workshop should effectively meet the stated objectives and facilitated by the risk champion. They maintain that “effective facilitation is fundamental to the success of the workshop (Hillson and Simon, 2007, p. 60). Based on the safety infractions outlined in the two independent investigative reports, the below list provides an overview of what will be addressed during the two-day Oil Refinery Risk Workshop Agenda items, which was created to identify ways to change the “history of poorly regulated safety measures in the plant” (Custom Book, 2011, p. 13).
The film leaks the dangers accompanying methane gas drilling of the Marcellus Shale. As well talks about the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. What is uncovered is truly shocking, water that can be lit on fire right out of the sink, chronically ill residents of drilling areas from disparate locations in the US all with the same mysterious symptoms, huge pools of toxic waste that kill cattle and vegetation well blowouts and huge gas explosions consistently covered up by state and federal regulatory agencies. Although music influences political movements and rituals, it is not clear how or even if, general audiences relate music on a political level. Time has shown how music can be used in anti-establishment or protest themes, including anti-war songs, although pro-establishment ideas are also used, for example in national anthems, patriotic songs, and political campaigns.
How far do you agree that the 1905 Revolution was a result of dire living and working conditions in the cities? In 1905 a series of unplanned but widespread protests gripped Russia as workers, peasants and the armed forces revolted against the oppressive and autocratic regime of Tsar Nicholas II. A growing industrialised workforce had become increasingly exposed to poverty and hardship in the cities and it is clear that dire living and working conditions played an important role in the explosion of civil unrest that swept the country. However, this essay will argue that the roots of the revolution can be traced back to the 1861 Emancipation edict and the failure of successive Tsar’s to solve the problem of peasant ‘land hunger’. Poor harvests, famine, a lack of freedom and repressive policies meant that Russia was a country that was teetering on the brink of revolution long before dissatisfied factory workers marched on the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.
Kayla Parker Mrs. Schenk HonorsII/Compare and Contrast 28 February 2012 Columbia after Horror Like day and night, the historical fiction story “And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabele Allende and the newspaper article “I11-Equipped Rescuers Dig Out Volcano Victims; Aid Slow to Reach Columbia Town” from the Washington Post by Bradley Graham, the conspicuous similarities and differences that can be acquired after scrutinizing both genres are copious. The events in both articles took place in the year of 1985, after an earth-shattering volcano erupted and sent a massive mudslide to destroy the town of Armero. With the obliterated buildings encasing the mounds of thousands of human bodies and hindering what little help the
At that time, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates of flooding the world oil market. Specifically, he accused Kuwait for stealing oil from a disputed supply, the Rumaila oil field which ran beneath both countries, and thus waging an "economic war" against Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator and led the 4th larger Army on the world, with 650,000 soldiers. On August 2nd, 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied Kuwait, gaining power over 20 percent of world fossil oil fields. Within hours of the invasion, Kuwait and U.S. delegations requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which passed Resolution 660, condemning the invasion and demanding a withdrawal of Iraqi troops.
His strictness was evident in his handling of a number of protests during his term, in which railroad workers, teachers, and doctors were fired for taking industrial action. During his Presidency there were major events that affected the entire Mexican population such as the Tlatelolco massacre on the same year in which the Olympic Games took place in Mexico (1968). To mention another fact about Diaz Ordaz; under his administration the Treaty of Tlatelolco was formed. The treaty prohibited the production, possession and utilization of nuclear weapons in Latin America and only allowed the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. The treaty made Latin America a nuclear weapon-free zone.
Hersey uses many writing strategies, and targets a specific audience in order to evoke in the American people feelings of remorse, sympathy, and anger, and a personal connection with the victims of the atomic bombing. The last sentence of the first chapter reads, “There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books”(Hersey 23). This statement ties a writing strategy to his intended purpose. Hersey uses irony here to show that these unpretentious and crude items caused the injury of this woman, albeit as a direct result of the refined and technologically advanced A-bomb. Whether Hersey may or may not have had any predilection toward the Christian or Catholic faith, his inclusion of religious aspects of Japanese life may have been a tool used to more closely relate these foreigners to the American people.
The 1984 Miner’s Strike The 1984 Miner’s Strike was major industrial action that affected all of UK industry, with significant impact on the coal industry. The strike, a failure for the miners and the National Union of Mineworkers, gave Margret Thatcher’s government the ability to consolidate its stance of fiscal conservatism. The strike is often seen as a struggle between the leftist unions, representing the workers, the common people, and the rightest, aloof Thatcher government. The defeat of the strike significantly weakened the increasingly powerful British Trade Union movement. The strikes origins can be seen to stem from tensions between the government and the unions, particular the NUM.
I live next to an anti-fracking camp, and have witnessed firsthand the controversial rise of fracking as a new energy source. Many negative externalities have arisen from the local protest such as increased policing costs of nearly £280,000, loss of farm land and lack of waste disposal leading to eutrophication into the nearby streams. Fracking now provides a quarter of US energy supply but its development in the UK has been met with protests nationwide. Is the UK falling behind in its energy developments or are they trying to protect its environment and people, having learned from the disasters of coal mining. Economics and Geography are everywhere.