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Century's End (century + end)
Selected AbstractsU.S. High-Performance Work Practices at Century's EndINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 4 2006JOSEPH R. BLASI This study examines the incidence, industry differences, and economic environment of work practices in the United States in 1994 and 1997 using census data from a nationally representative random sample of establishments. Self-managed work teams were used by a majority of workers in some sites. Work-related meetings had higher incidence. A high-performance work organization is used in about 1 percent of establishments. There were significant industry differences associated with globalization, namely, imports and exports. [source] A Weak Embrace: Popular and Scholarly Depictions of Single-Parent Families, 1900 , 1998JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY, Issue 2 2009Margaret L. Usdansky The growth of single-parent families constitutes one of the most dramatic and most studied social changes of the 20th century. Evolving attitudes toward these families have received less attention. This paper explores depictions of these families in representative samples of popular magazine (N = 474) and social science journal (N = 202) articles. Critical depictions of divorce plummeted between 1900 and 1998, a trend stemming not from any increase in favorable depictions but from the virtual disappearance of normative debate. Such de facto acceptance did not extend to nonmarital childbearing, however, depictions of which were almost as likely to be critical at the century's end as at its beginning. These trends illustrate Americans' ambivalent embrace of single-parent families as a reality but not an ideal. [source] Peeling Away the Western VeneerNEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2008KISHORE MAHBUBANI Globalization has indeed flattened the earth, paving the way for new beginnings and the resurgence of old cultures alike by levelling the playing field for all comers. While this new era of post-globalization certainly heralds de-Westernization by century's end, is it more likely to mean a revival of the old ways of the East or the new hybrid ways of the first global civilization? Some of Asia's most provocative voices, as well as the world's most renowned cellist and cross-pollinating musician, offer their views. [source] Bound Together: The Future of GlobalizationNEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2008NAYAN CHANDA Globalization has indeed flattened the earth, paving the way for new beginnings and the resurgence of old cultures alike by levelling the playing field for all comers. While this new era of post-globalization certainly heralds de-Westernization by century's end, is it more likely to mean a revival of the old ways of the East or the new hybrid ways of the first global civilization? Some of Asia's most provocative voices, as well as the world's most renowned cellist and cross-pollinating musician, offer their views. [source] | ||||||||||