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The Decline of Labor |
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After decades of growth, union membership in the United States has been declining steadily for the past 20 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total membership peaked at almost 18 million people in 1980. By last year, according to The Charlotte News & Observer, that figure had dropped to less than 16 million, just 13 percent of the country’s workforce. |
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Has China Won?: The |
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| Kishore Mahbubani |
ǻ | PublicAffairs |
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Breaking Through: Co |
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| Sally Susman |
ǻ | Harvard Business Review Press |
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Rising Domestic Terr |
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Americans are under siege by terrorists right now, but the primary source of the problem is not al Qaeda or any other foreign terrorist organization. The threat stems from home-grown activist groups with names like: the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. And it’s not just left-wing radicals who are causing the problems. Domestic terror threats include bombings by right-wing terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph. |
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Revenge of the Tippi |
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| Malcolm Gladwell |
ǻ | Little, Brown and Company |
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