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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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This book presents the findings of the highly respected
eight-year Cornell-New York Hospital second opinion elective
surgery program. The study covered 470,000 people in voluntary
second opinion programs and an additional 273,000 people through a
health insurance program mandating consultation. The authors
present evidence that second opinion programs can effect
significant medical cost reductions, even while enhancing the
quality of care.
This book is written in support of proposals to reduce work time
in order to improve employment opportunities. The authors, both of
whom have been deeply involved in shorter workweek policy debates,
argue that the failure of the U.S. to enact shorter workweek
legislation when it was first proposed in the late 1950s was a
significant policy mistake. They argue further that reduced work
hours are an effective means to full employment, improved income
distribution, and a stronger consumer market--in addition to
promising a better life to the contemporary American family.
Policymakers concerned with employment issues as well as trade
union officials and students of industrial relations will find here
a new framework of ideas to support the renewed consideration of
shorter workweek legislation.
The authors approach their subject by analyzing the consequences
of the U.S. rejection of shorter workweek proposals over the past
30 years. Among them, they contend, are an increasing polarization
of incomes, the devotion of more and more resources to the support
of economic waste, and a continuing problem with unemployment. The
current preoccupation with dollar-denominated growth (a legacy from
the Great Depression) has produced a debt-ridden system which
increasingly fails to accomodate people's real needs: hence, the
authors call for a nonfinancial analysis of economic questions.
Taken as a whole, this volume offers both an eloquent defense of
leisure and a cogent analysis of the beneficial economic effects of
the institution of a shorter workweek or longer annual
vacation.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
"Rebel" is the first complete biography of the Confederacy's
best-known partisan commander, John Singleton Mosby, the "Gray
Ghost." A practicing attorney in Virginia and at first a reluctant
soldier, in 1861 Mosby took to soldiering with a vengeance,
becoming one of the Confederate army's highest-profile officers,
known especially for his cavalry battalion's continued and
effective harassment of Union armies in northern Virginia. Although
hunted after the war and regarded, in fact, as the last Confederate
officer to surrender, he later became anathema to former
Confederates for his willingness to forget the past and his desire
to heal the nation's wounds. Appointed U.S. consul in Hong Kong, he
soon initiated an anticorruption campaign that ruined careers in
the Far East and Washington. Then, following a stint as a railroad
attorney in California, he surfaced again as a government
investigator sent by President Theodore Roosevelt to tear down
cattlemen's fences on public lands in the West. Ironically, he
ended his career as an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice.
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