<p>In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Compared with similarly aligned protest movements of the era – socialism, anarchism, nihilism, populism, and progressivism – the rise of Jacobitism receives little attention.Born in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Jacobitism had been in steep decline since the mid-eighteenth century. But between 1880 and 1910, Jacobite organizations popped up across Britain, then spread to the United States, publishing royalist magazines, organizing public demonstrations, offering Anglo-Catholic masses to fallen Stuart kings, and praying at Stuart statues and tombs. Michael Connolly explains the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism, places it in context, and reveals its significance as a response to and a driver of the political forces of the period. Understanding the Jacobite movement clarifies Victorian Anglo-American anxiety over liberalism, democracy, industrialization, and emerging modernity. In an age when worries over liberalism are again ascendant, Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 traces the complex genealogy of this unease.</p>

Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 (Volume 6) (McGill-Queen's Transatlantic Studies)

History

Connolly, Michael J.

World

McGill-Queen's University Press

In this engaging new study, Michael J. Connolly seeks to understand the interrelationships among political change, economic interests, and railroad development in northern New England prior to the Civil War. He analyzes the political thought of the region as it involved the growth of party confrontations—among the Radical Democrats in New Hampshire, the Whigs and Conservative Democrats in New Hampshire, and the Whigs in Essex County, Massachusetts—and the rise of voting activity. An assortment of antebellum demographic data on the various railroad lines is made clear by the maps in the book.New England was an older region with settled patterns of political economy, and innovations like the railroad forced antebellum citizens to alter their patterns of life. Jacksonian Democrats debated among themselves the wisdom of railroad technology, its influence on political power, and its effect on regional economies, remaining skeptical about how this invention would improve their lives. They voiced serious concern that railroads would shrink private rights and destroy the existing “liberal capitalist” economy, all the while making northern New Englanders the minions of business interests far away in Boston and Canada. These concerns separated them from the Whigs.Whigs remained ebullient over how railroads would transform their political and economic lives, improve the lot of every New Englander in the long run, and rescue a dying region from social oblivion. They believed that danger came in not developing railroads. Whigs were willing to extend public power to a remarkable extent: bridges were destroyed, courthouses demolished, land and buildings taken to make way for railroads. Less sophisticated in economic understanding than the Jacksonians, Whigs never worried over “illiberal capitalism”; they welcomed it. The great consensus between Jacksonians and Whigs was capitalism. No one opposed markets.The antebellum conflict was not about whether America should be a market society, but what shape those markets should take; not about whether government should have power over private rights, but to what extent states could impose on private citizens. At the center of this debate was the railroad.Providing an excellent view of the economics of railroad development and how it affected the factory and farm world of northern New England, Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England makes a major contribution to our full understanding of the coming of the Civil War.

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England

Americas

University of Missouri

Capitalism, Politics, and Railroads in Jacksonian New England (SHADES OF BLUE & GRAY)

A Practical Guide to Equal Employment Opportunity, a comprehensive two-volume set, is the only EEO compliance manual you'll ever need. Volume One analyzes discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age and disabilities. It offers concrete suggestions regarding: hiring standards; seniority; promotions; transfers and discharges; equal pay and “comparable worth”; privacy; employer's liability for sexual harassment of employees; same-sex sexual harassment; employers' use of subjective criteria in promotion decisions; what constitutes a “serious health condition” under the Family and Medical Leave Act; affirmative action and reverse discrimination; labor union liability; recordkeeping requirements; and federal and state agency procedures. Volume Two features EEO compliance documents, including: model affirmative action plans; a sample EEO manual; EEO training programs; testing and selection procedures; and checklists for affirmative action and evaluation of federal contractors.

A Practical Guide to Equal Employment Opportunity

Feinstein, Joshua

Connolly Jr., Walter B.

Business

Law Journal Press

<p>Use of Statistics in Equal Employment Opportunity Litigation examines legal precedents for the use of statistics, the plaintiff's burden of establishing a prima facie case, and statistical concepts. Featuring charts and diagrams, it includes in-depth coverage of: the hiring process; job assignment, transfer and promotion; discipline and discharge; equal pay, wage mobility and pay awards; age discrimination, including corporate “downsizings”; estimating the racial composition of an employer's labor pool; and testing and selection procedures. A special section analyzes various models for detecting disparate treatment and evaluating employer alternatives.</p>

Use of Statistics in Equal Employment Opportunity Litigation

Peterson, David W.

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