M.Com. (Taxation) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

The growth of New York City between the 1880s and the 1930s produced a remarkable building boom that reshaped the landscape of the city. In these years the city acquired its modern skyline, many of its civic monuments, and much of the housing its residents live in today. The development of new architectural styles, building materials, and construction methods in this period also introduced profound changes in the way buildings were produced. The soaring demand for new construction stimulated the rise of new kinds of architecture, building, and contracting firms, revitalized the building trades, and transformed the city’s building industry. This dissertation explores the building of the city from the perspective of those who were engaged in its production to shed new light on the history of the city. Focusing on the creation of some of the city’s most important buildings, it traces the efforts of architects, builders, and workers to the shape the building process as it became increasingly industrialized. While architects, general contracting companies, and subcontractors exercised growing authority within the building industry, construction ultimately depended upon skilled building craftsmen. Thanks to their collective action, workers successfully fought to maintain the integrity of their trades and exert control over their work. Over time, architects, building employers, and workers established cooperative agreements which helped to stabilize a volatile industry. This study contains five chapters that examine the work of leading New York architects as a window onto the transformation of building practice over half a century. Using the records of architecture firms, building trade publications, and municipal records, it documents the changing character of the building industry in a period of rapid urban growth, technological change, and industrial conflict. By looking at the making of buildings as a form of production, it reframes architectural history around the conflicts that shaped the building process between the late nineteenth century and the Great Depression.

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The purpose of this study was to: 1. develop indices which would demonstrate by a ranking process the relative attractiveness of various competitors of labor in an area and to apply this tool to a sample to determine its feasibility of operation; 2. determine which job factors have the closest association to the overall image; and 3. identify which biographical variables vary significantly with the overall image. The method by which this objective was accomplished consisted of a questionnaire which was administered to 224 high school seniors in the Christiansburg-Radford area of which 182 were applicable in this study. Two indices were constructed to accomplish the first objective: 1. an index of preferability or overall image index, and 2. an index of desirability or treated image index. These two indices were found to be identical in the rankings of the firms which indicates that they validly confirm or support one another. By the use of coefficients of correlation the second objective outlined above was accomplished. This study found that certain job factors do have a close relationship with the overall image. The five job factors analyzed were those appearing in the cluster obtained from the students’ rankings of job factors in the last question of the questionnaire. The major finding here was that although job security is the students' most important job factor, it has a slight relationship to the overall image. An analysis of variance was utilized to accomplish the third objective outlined above. It was found that certain biographical variables do not vary significantly with the image of a firm an individual possesses. The firm itself or the character traits which make up the firm's personality have the greatest effect on the students' image of firms as employers. A recommendation for further study would be to alter the sample used in this study from graduating high school seniors to unemployed workers in the area to determine if their image indices would differ significantly from those in this study. / M.S.

"The purpose of this study is to make an analysis of the employee handbooks now being used in industry from the point of view of format, content, and style in order to determine current trends in the writing of such publications, and develop conclusions and recommendations that will render aid in writing an employee handbook"--Introduction. / "August, 1950." / Typescript. / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science." / Advisor: J. Frank Dame, Professor Directing Paper. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-58).

Chan Hau-leung. / Bibliography: leaves 180-186 / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong

by Ying Wang-bun. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1981. / Bibliography: leaf 59.

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Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2001. / Restricted until November 2002. Bibliography: leaves 69-72.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1987.