Jim Silver
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Silver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Silver |
| SIGNATURE | SILVER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winnipeg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Comments on "Canada
Martin J. Morand's discussion of what needs to be done to reverse the fortunes of organized labor in the United States—"Canada: Our Model?" (MR, June 1990)—is off the mark. Morand's argument is that the American labor movement faces a crisis of survival, and that, to surmount the crisis, labor should single-mindedly concentrate on winning the enactment of first-contract legislation, such as Canada has in the federal jurisdiction and in the provin…
Corporate Strategy and Plant Closures
Unheard Voices
The Ideology of Excellence
The best-selling business book of all time is In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman. It is also the most popular book of any kind in Harper & Row's publishing history. Some five million copies had been sold by 1985, including fifteen translations. The Japanese edition sold three hundred-thousand copies in six weeks. It is reported that many excited chief executive officers have ordered dozens of copies to be distributed to their …
Books/Livres
West African Workers
The Failure of European Mining Companies in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
European mining companies in the nineteenth-century Gold Coast failed because they were unable to solve the problem of ‘primitive accumulation’. Their failure to solve the problem of primitive accumulation was attributable to a variety of factors, including financial manipulations by ‘share-pushers’ and ‘concession-mongers’, managerial and technological inadequacies, and the refusal of the colonial state to employ that degree of force which would…
Class struggles in Ghana's mining industry
The first 20 years of Ghanaian independence has seen industrial relations in the mining industry transformed from the relative stability of the early Nkrumah years when the mineworkers’ living standards constantly rose, to a fierce confrontation by the rank and file workers, not only with the military regime, but also with the trades union leadership. The alliance of mining capital, the State and the trades union bureaucracy which faces the minew…
The Failure of European Mining Companies in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
European mining companies in the nineteenth-century Gold Coast failed because they were unable to solve the problem of ‘primitive accumulation’. Their failure to solve the problem of primitive accumulation was attributable to a variety of factors, including financial manipulations by ‘share-pushers’ and ‘concession-mongers’, managerial and technological inadequacies, and the refusal of the colonial state to employ that degree of force which would…
The Ideology of Excellence
The best-selling business book of all time is In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman. It is also the most popular book of any kind in Harper & Row's publishing history. Some five million copies had been sold by 1985, including fifteen translations. The Japanese edition sold three hundred-thousand copies in six weeks. It is reported that many excited chief executive officers have ordered dozens of copies to be distributed to their …
Corporate Strategy and Plant Closures
Class struggles in Ghana's mining industry
The first 20 years of Ghanaian independence has seen industrial relations in the mining industry transformed from the relative stability of the early Nkrumah years when the mineworkers’ living standards constantly rose, to a fierce confrontation by the rank and file workers, not only with the military regime, but also with the trades union leadership. The alliance of mining capital, the State and the trades union bureaucracy which faces the minew…
The Failure of European Mining Companies in the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
European mining companies in the nineteenth-century Gold Coast failed because they were unable to solve the problem of ‘primitive accumulation’. Their failure to solve the problem of primitive accumulation was attributable to a variety of factors, including financial manipulations by ‘share-pushers’ and ‘concession-mongers’, managerial and technological inadequacies, and the refusal of the colonial state to employ that degree of force which would…
Books/Livres
West African Workers
The Ideology of Excellence
The best-selling business book of all time is In Search of Excellence by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman. It is also the most popular book of any kind in Harper & Row's publishing history. Some five million copies had been sold by 1985, including fifteen translations. The Japanese edition sold three hundred-thousand copies in six weeks. It is reported that many excited chief executive officers have ordered dozens of copies to be distributed to their …
Corporate Strategy and Plant Closures
Unheard Voices
"Comments on "Canada
Martin J. Morand's discussion of what needs to be done to reverse the fortunes of organized labor in the United States—"Canada: Our Model?" (MR, June 1990)—is off the mark. Morand's argument is that the American labor movement faces a crisis of survival, and that, to surmount the crisis, labor should single-mindedly concentrate on winning the enactment of first-contract legislation, such as Canada has in the federal jurisdiction and in the provin…
Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Business (2 works)