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Wage Change and the Quit Behavior of Workers: Implications for Efficiency Wage Theory

Campbell, Carl M., III (Southern Economic Association, 1994-07)

Wage Theft: Pilfering Paychecks, One Lunch at a Time

Levault, James D. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2017-11)

The United States Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, is charged with enforcing the payment of minimum wage and overtime to employees. A common problem occurs when an employee performs work during their unpaid ...

Walking the Edge of Death: An Annotated Bibliography on Juveniles, the Mentally Ill, the Mentally Retarded and the Death Penalty

Boland, Susan M. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2001-05)

The death penalty is not so monolithic as it seems at first glance. A storm of debate has centered around the application of this, the harshest criminal penalty of all, to the mentally ill, mentally retarded, and juveniles. ...

Walking their own path : a life course analysis of baby boom women's marital decisions

Slaughter, Karen M. (Northern Illinois University, 1992)

This study sought to examine the influence of birth cohort, structural characteristics of the family, childhood religious teachings, and gender-role modelling on adult gender-role attitudes and the timing of marital ...

Walking to the creek

Williams, David J. (Northern Illinois University, 1984)

The poems in this collection center thematically around a pasture creek in Illinois. The creek, as an image, is symbolic of the natural world, and in the poems is often used as a point of contrast to the world of human ...

War & [Emotional] Peace: Death in Iraq and the Need to Constitutionalize Speech-Based lIED Claims Beyond Hustler Magazine v. Falwell

Calvert, Clay (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2008-11)

The protracted and ongoing war in Iraq has spawned several lawsuits in the United States based upon the tort theory of intentional infliction of emotional distress. This article focuses in depth on one of those recent ...

War of words : can protest repression manifest organizational stigma?

Jenkins, Raymond (Northern Illinois University, 2018)

Throughout the history of the United States, protest has provoked both social thought and backlash. Protests regarding civil rights and equality can create situations of great discomfort and varying forms of repression---but ...

The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan

Atkins, E. Taylor, 1967-- (positions: east asia cultures critique, 1998)

Discusses the fate of jazz in wartime Japan, emphasizing not just the official ban on the music, but the ways that jazz musicians found ways to make the idiom serve national policy.

The Warburg Effect and Glutamine: Targeting the Deregulation of Metabolism in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

Howard, Zachary (Northern Illinois University, 2016)

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer in the world. Effective therapy options are limited; sorafenib is currently the only FDA-approved medication for the disease. In order improve clinical ...

Warranty policies beneficial to both consumer and producer

Ba Pirojboot (Northern Illinois University, 1991)

This study designs a credible tool which can be used in the situations where warranty policies must be implemented. This tool provides a mechanism for sharing benefits among consumers and producers in price-warranty ...

The Warsaw Convention: A Cat With Nine Lives Walks the Plank One More Time

Marshall, Tamara A. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2002-05)

This comment advocates elimination of the liability limits imposed under the Warsaw Convention in the event of an aviation accident. The comment first examines the history of the Warsaw Convention. Next, the comment looks ...

Washington Irving's social attitudes revealed in Salmagundi, Knickerbocker's history, and the sketch book

Blomgren, Jeannine Wieza (Northern Illinois University, 1959)

Washington Irving, American’s first man of letters of the early 19th century, has been studied as a literary and political critic, but not as a social critic. In the introduction to his Irving bibliography, Stanley Williams ...

Watching the Watchmen: The People’s Attempt to Hold On-Duty Law Enforcement Officers Accountable for Misconduct and the Illinois Law that Stands in Their Way

Tomei, Robert J., Jr. (Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2012-04)

In the days when police brutality and public official corruption pump through the veins of society as a fermenting virus, a critical analysis of a controversial law curtailing efforts to intensify public awareness of ...