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The New Deal placed security at the center of American political and economic life by establishing an explicit partnership between the state, economy, and citizens. In America, unlike anywhere else in the world, most people depend overwhelmingly on private health insurance and employee benefits. The astounding rise of this phenomenon from before World War II, however, has been largely overlooked. In this powerful history of the American reliance on employment-based benefits, Jennifer Klein examines the interwoven politics of social provision and labor relations from the 1910s to the 1960s. Through a narrative that connects the commercial life insurance industry, the politics of Social Security, organized labor's quest for economic security, and the evolution of modern health insurance, she shows how the firm-centered welfare system emerged. Moreover, the imperatives of industrial relations, Klein argues, shaped public and private social security.

Looking closely at unions and communities, Klein uncovers the wide range of alternative, community-based health plans that had begun to germinate in the 1930s and 1940s but that eventually succumbed to commercial health insurance and pensions. She also illuminates the contests to define "security"--job security, health security, and old age security--following World War II.

For All These Rights traces the fate of the New Deal emphasis on social entitlement as the private sector competed with and emulated Roosevelt's Social Security program. Through the story of struggles over health security and old age security, social rights and the welfare state, it traces the fate of New Deal liberalism--as a set of ideas about the state, security, and labor rights--in the 1950s, the 1960s, and beyond.

For All of These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Private-Public Welfare State.(Book review): An article from: Independent Review

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For All of These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Private-Public Welfare State.(Book review): An article from: Independent Review
Price V. Fishback
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Title: For All of These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Private-Public Welfare State.(Book review)
Author: Price V. Fishback
Publication: Independent Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12 Issue: 1 Page: 139(4)

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This is a powerful, practical guide. Written in an easy-to-read style, it offers invaluable help in recognizing, controlling, and living with job stress. Each of its 19 chapters includes vignettes of people with specific symptoms of job stress. And since stress on the job may intensify the progression of other diseases or conditions, Dr. Arden explores the interaction between job stress and medical problems including diabetes, thyroid conditions, Meniere's Disease, and many more. Throughout the book, helpful charts and lists illustrate and sum up critical information about the best ways to adapt to job stress. A chapter on medication describes the common effects and the side effects, and gives the typical dosages for a variety of drugs. The chapter on nutrition includes the major amino acids found in various foods and their effects on mood and cognition. This is the book that will help you cope with stress in the workplace and minimize its negative effects.

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A Practical Guide to Stress Relief.......2002-10-13

This book reviews all the major issues related to job stress and gives very practical, concrete ways to cope. Anyone who experiences job stress could benefit from the knowledge and advise contained in these pages. I highly recommend it!

Job Stress -.......2002-09-21

I have always felt a lot of stress in my job and could never feel that I was very calm at work. Dr. Arden provides numerous tips on how to cope beginning with yourself and then your job environment to help alleviate stress. I have used some of his tips and have now felt more relaxed at work.

Helpful Strategies.......2002-09-19

This straightforward book helps readers understand the overwhelming feelings associated with anxiety and the working environment. It has more helpful coping strategies than most books of its kind on the market. The book contains a wide range of topics: causes of anxiety, coping with attacks, nutrition, psychological approaches, relaxation, holistic and pharmaceutical treatments. The short chapters make it agreeable to busy schedules. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to make a positive change in his or her life.

Readable and Helpful.......2002-09-03

This book helped me learn to deal with the stress of multi-tasking. As a teacher I have to deal with parents, administrators, as well as students without being overwhelmed This book gave great hints about how to cope with it all.

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It's a complete guide!.......2000-04-27

This book not only gives the mechanics of accounting for non-profits, but more importantly, provides tools for financial and resource decision-making. A must for non-profit managers!

It's a complete guide!.......2000-04-27

This book covers not only the mechanics of accounting for non-profits, but more importantly, the tools to guide financial and resource decision-making. Very good book!

Management Control In Nonprofit Organizations

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Excelent book by excelent authors

Management Control In Nonprofit Organizations
Robert N Anthony , and David Young
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Anthony and Young's MANAGEMENT CONTROL IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, 7e includes an abundance of cases that apply to a variety of nonprofit organizations. MANAGEMENT CONTROL IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, 7e provides faculty with contemporary management control theory combined with classic and contemporary cases that can be used to augment the learning process. The cases vary in length so that faculty may use this text in a beginning or advanced class.

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Excelent book by excelent authors.......2006-11-08

The book is very comprehensive and uses very good learning methodology. One can find all that is important in the area of management control. I can highly recomend the book to anyone interested in this field looking for a methodological guide to management control.

National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis

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National Innovation Systems: A Comparative Analysis

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The slowdown of growth in Western industrialized nations in the last twenty years, along with the rise of Japan as a major economic and technological power (and enhanced technical sophistication of Taiwan, Korea, and other NICs) has led to what the authors believe to be a "techno-nationalism." This combines a strong belief that technological capabilities of a nation's firms are a key source of their competitive process, with a belief that these capabilities are in a sense national, and can be built by national action. This book is about these national systems of technical innovation. The heart of the work contains studies of seventeen countries--from large market-oriented industrialized ones to several smaller high income ones, including a number of newly industrialized states as well. Clearly written, this work highlights institutions and mechanisms which support technical innovation, showing similarities, differences, and their sources across nations, making this work accessible to students as well as the scholars of innovation.

Performance and Productivity in Public And Nonprofit Organizations

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This book saves money AND an organization's existence
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Saving Money in Nonprofit Organizations: More than 100 Money-Saving Ideas, Tips, and Strategies for Reducing Expenses Without Cutting Your Budget (Jossey Bass Nonprofit & Public Management Series)
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A very practical, walk-away-with-dozens-of-new-ideas book for nonprofit managers who face the constant challenge of increasing income and reducing expenses. The author not only encourages good fiscal management, he motivates the reader and provides a road map for saving a lot of money.
--John Pearson, CEO, Christian Management Association

A straightforward, no-nonsense guide to streamlining expenses without sacrificing valuable programs and services.

Even in a good national economy, nonprofit organizations can have tight financial constraints. And since most nonprofits are already operating close to the fiscal balance line, they feel the financial pinch sooner and more acutely than business or government when the economy takes a downward spin.

This nuts-and-bolts resource will help you find ways to:

--Effectively balance your budget

--Minimize spending through thirty general money-saving principles and opportunities

--Maximize your organization's various assets

--Save money on personnel costs without firing anyone

--Reduce office equipment and supply costs

--Negotiate the best possible price with vendors <--Decrease travel, insurance, and tax expenses

--Develop long- and short-term strategies for expense reduction

--Create an action plan as well as a cost-saving team

The money-saving tips that Gregory Dabel presents in this useful guide will benefit even those organizations whose revenues are thriving. Saving Money in Nonprofit Organizations is for professionals who are ready to take action and improve their financial bottom lines.

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This book saves money AND an organization's existence.......2005-06-09

The upside of working for a non-profit is getting to act on your beliefs for the public good while still getting paid. The downside is that working for the public good necessitates tight budgets. Changing the world IS expensive, but can be done with thoughtful planning.

Sharply at odds with a 'fat cat' image of politics, the non profit MUST know how to make the most use of their organization's resources in order to remain relevant to their service area and organization mission statements. Reading this book reminded me of an organization I had worked with because they started out with noble intentions, but ultimately folded only because the other staff did not understand the necessity of budgeting or how non-profits differ from private-sector corporate charity initiatives.

I'm sure that Dabel has his own horror stories of an organization which forgot to balance idealism with fiscal prudence, but such reminiscing is not the focus of this book. Instead, Dabel provides simple, ready-to-do steps which most non-profits can and should easily undertake. The best organization committed to the best cause in the world will be ineffective when it does not have money for campaign supplies or even an organizing space.

Although he does mention the role which volunteers and interns can play in advancing an organization's goals while lowering the economic overhead, Dabel did not appear to fully appreciate their potential range of contributions in an organization. Having both been an intern and then worked at numerous non-profit organizations where paid staff topped out around 4 people, I ardently believe that unpaid work cannot be underestimated as being one of those practical solutions.

Overall however, this was a good book. I would feel comfortable recommending it to both the non-profit co-worker/colleague and people (such as my family) who need a jargon-free book on the economic/social work environments of non-profits.

15% Saved is 15% Earned.......2000-06-30

The author does deliver on the promise to shave 15% off a nonprofit's budget. All of the 100+ tips (across a broad range of expense areas) for shaving costs are practical and require limited time or money to implement. Though any nonprofit organization will benefit from many of these tested ideas, organizations under $10 million in budget should especially be able to adopt many of the suggestions due to flatter heirarchies and quicker decisions by senior staff. I know of no other text that comes close to being so extensive or so practical.

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