Download or read book Buy American written by Dana Frank and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2000-04-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the election of Donald Trump, economic nationalism has re-emerged as a patriotic rallying cry. But are imports and “foreigners” really to blame for the disappearance of good jobs in the United States? Tracing the history and politics of economic nationalism from the American Revolution to the present, historian Dana Frank investigates the long history of “Buy American” campaigns and their complexities. This entertaining story is full of surprises, including misguided heroes, chilling racism, and more than a few charlatans. Frank helps reframe the debate between free trade, on the one hand, and nationalism on the other, to suggest alternative strategies that would serve the needs of working Americans—instead of the interests of corporations and economic elites—and that don’t cast “foreigners” or immigrants as our “enemies.”
Download or read book Buying America from the Indians written by Blake A. Watson and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnson v. McIntosh and its impact offers a comprehensive historical and legal overview of Native land rights since the European discovery of the New World. Watson sets the case in rich historical context. After tracing Anglo-American views of Native land rights to their European roots, Watson explains how speculative ventures in Native lands affected not only Indian peoples themselves but the causes and outcomes of the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and ratification of the Articles of Confederation. He then focuses on the transactions at issue in Johnson between the Illinois and Piankeshaw Indians, who sold their homelands, and the future shareholders of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies.
Download or read book Buy America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buy America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Highways and Transit and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book All the Way to America The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel written by Dan Yaccarino and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This immigration story is universal.” —School Library Journal, Starred Dan Yaccarino’s great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island with a small shovel and his parents’ good advice: “Work hard, but remember to enjoy life, and never forget your family.” With simple text and warm, colorful illustrations, Yaccarino recounts how the little shovel was passed down through four generations of this Italian-American family—along with the good advice. It’s a story that will have kids asking their parents and grandparents: Where did we come from? How did our family make the journey all the way to America? “A shovel is just a shovel, but in Dan Yaccarino’s hands it becomes a way to dig deep into the past and honor all those who helped make us who we are.” —Eric Rohmann, winner of the Caldecott Medal for My Friend Rabbit “All the Way to America is a charmer. Yaccarino’s heartwarming story rings clearly with truth, good cheer, and love.” —Tomie dePaola, winner of a Caldecott Honor Award for Strega Nona
Download or read book The Children s Book of America written by William J. Bennett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories of significant events and people in American history, patriotic songs, and American folk tales and poems.
Download or read book Implementation and Enforcement of the Buy America Provisions of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration the Federal Highway Administration and the U S Army Corps of Engineers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ties That Buy written by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's work—boarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcohol—but her customers, like her creditors, underscore her connections to an expansive commercial society. These connections are central to The Ties That Buy. Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor traces the lives of urban women in early America to reveal how they used the ties of residence, work, credit, and money to shape consumer culture at a time when the politics of the marketplace was gaining national significance. Covering the period 1750-1820, the book analyzes how women such as Stoneman used and were used by shifting forms of credit and cash in an economy transitioning between neighborly exchanges and investment-oriented transactions. In this world, commerce reached into every part of life. At the hearths of multifamily homes, renters, lodgers, and recent acquaintances lived together and struck financial deals for survival. Landladies, enslaved washerwomen, shopkeepers, and hucksters sustained themselves by serving the mobile population. A new economic practice in America—shopping—mobilized hierarchical and friendly relationships into wide-ranging consumer networks that depended on these same market connections. Rhetoric emerging after the Revolution downplayed the significance of expanding female economic life in the interest of stabilizing the political order. But women were quintessential market participants, with fluid occupational identities, cross-class social and economic connections, and a firm investment in cash and commercial goods for power and meaning.
Download or read book Buying Power written by Lawrence B. Glickman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive history of consumer activism, Buying Power traces the lineage of this political tradition back to our nation’s founding, revealing that Americans used purchasing power to support causes and punish enemies long before the word boycott even entered our lexicon. Taking the Boston Tea Party as his starting point, Lawrence Glickman argues that the rejection of British imports by revolutionary patriots inaugurated a continuous series of consumer boycotts, campaigns for safe and ethical consumption, and efforts to make goods more broadly accessible. He explores abolitionist-led efforts to eschew slave-made goods, African American consumer campaigns against Jim Crow, a 1930s refusal of silk from fascist Japan, and emerging contemporary movements like slow food. Uncovering previously unknown episodes and analyzing famous events from a fresh perspective, Glickman illuminates moments when consumer activism intersected with political and civil rights movements. He also sheds new light on activists’ relationship with the consumer movement, which gave rise to lobbies like the National Consumers League and Consumers Union as well as ill-fated legislation to create a federal Consumer Protection Agency.
Download or read book Buy America Requirements for Federally Funded Airports written by Timothy R. Wyatt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federal airport development grant programs include statutory preferences for domestic goods, commonly known as Buy America, Buy American, or Buy National provisions. These provisions have evolved from the 1933 Buy American Act ("BAA"), which applied to direct procurements of goods by federal government agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration ("FAA"). Buy America provisions in transportation grant programs, on the other hand, apply to procurements made by recipients of federal grants, including state and local governments and airport authorities. The Buy America provision in the Airport Improvement Program (“AIP”), enacted in 1990, appears to have been designed as a particularly strict domestic preference requirement. However, there is no requirement in the AIP Buy America provision (as there is in other transportation grant provisions) for the FAA to publish the Buy America waivers that it grants. As a result, until recent years, the AIP Buy America provision has been the subject of very little scrutiny, guidance, or enforcement. Congressional oversight was expanded with passage of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act ("ARRA") economic stimulus program in 2009, which required the FAA to publish Buy America waivers for projects that received ARRA funds. Consequently, the FAA has published some waivers of the Buy America requirements, and has also published expanded guidance to help AIP grant recipients comply with the requirements. Although guidance and enforcement of the AIP Buy America provision is still evolving, there is now sufficient information publicly available to provide compliance guidance for most situations encountered by AIP grant recipients. This paper synthesizes all available information, including statutory and regulatory language, legislative history, administrative and judicial opinions, and agency guidance, to help airport sponsors and their contractors understand and comply with the Buy America requirements. The paper identifies areas where the FAA has directly adopted compliance tests used by other federal agencies in enforcing the BAA or other transportation grant Buy America provisions. The paper also identifies ways in which the AIP Buy America provision differs from its predecessors, where the FAA and its grant recipients should not rely on guidance provided by other agencies (involving similar but different statutes). Finally, the paper identifies areas where the FAA's interpretation of airport Buy America requirements may deviate from the Congressional intent or from the interpretation of nearly identical statutory language by other federal agencies.
Download or read book Martin Malcolm America written by James H. Cone and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamines the ideology of the two most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s
Download or read book Buy America Requirements written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policymakers and program managers are continually seeking ways to improve accountability in achieving an entity's mission. A key factor in improving accountability in achieving an entity's mission is to implement an effective internal control system. An effective internal control system helps an entity adapt to shifting environments, evolving demands, changing risks, and new priorities. As programs change and entities strive to improve operational processes and implement new technology, management continually evaluates its internal control system so that it is effective and updated when necessary. Section 3512 (c) and (d) of Title 31 of the United States Code (commonly known as the Federal Managers? Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA)) requires the Comptroller General to issue standards for internal control in the federal government.
Download or read book Trump s America written by Scott Dikkers and published by Micro Publishing Media, INC. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is important, and not just because it's about Donald Trump. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to discover the official Trump Brand Origin Story, to learn his positions on vital issues like the military—“Are These the Biggest Missiles We Have?", science— “If Einstein Was So Smart, Why Wasn't He Rich?" and good government—“ Of the Good People, By the Good People, and For the Good People”. Through hilarious stories, photo mashups, official documents, and future newspaper clippings, readers will experience life under the leadership of President Trump. This is the road map every citizen needs to thrive and survive in a "Trumpocalypse."Remember, it will be Trump’s America, but you have to live in it.
Download or read book The Cloud Corporation written by Timothy Donnelly and published by Wave Books. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited second collection by a central literary figure, Columbia University professor, and poetry editor of the Boston Review.
Download or read book Norman Rockwell s America written by Christopher Finch and published by Abrams. This book was released on 1985-09-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: H.N. Abrams 1975. Text and captioned illustrations present selections of the artist's work and a brief biographical sketch.
Download or read book Passport to Your National Parks written by Eastern National and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's here! Now you can stamp your way through the entire National Park System with the newest addition to the Passport To Your National Parks line of products: the Collector's Edition Passport. Beauty and practicality meet artfully in this deluxe version of the popular Passport, taking you above and beyond the original by providing space for Passport stickers and cancellation stamps for every single park, as well as space for extra cancellations. The park sites are color-coded by region, each area featuring a color map that pinpoints park locations. With a spiral binding that makes it easy to lie open flat, a hard cover that ensures durability and longer life, and pages graced with beautiful color photographs, it's the ultimate stamping ground.
