occupational organizations

(noun)

Occupational organizations promote the professional and economic interests of workers in a particular occupation, industry, or trade, through interaction with the government, and by preparing advertising and other promotional campaigns to the public.

Related Terms

Examples of occupational organizations in the following topics:

  • The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

    • Variation three, $O \rightarrow X+Y$ , refers to the act of organizing things in a certain way.
    • By organizing in particular ways, we create important parts of the circumstances within which future actions of all types take place.
    • The act of organizing is thus a super wholesale approach to decision and action.
    • Organizations can be seen as collections of offices or roles, and roles in turn can be seen as sets of rules regarding proper and improper actions by the occupants of these roles.
    • The American Constitutional Convention of 1787 was one of history's most dramatic examples of acting to organize.

  • Interest Groups

    • These diverse organizations include corporations, charitable organizations, civil rights groups, neighborhood associations, professional associations, and trade associations.
    • SIG members may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.
    • Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying that has become influential.
    • Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying.
    • Occupational or labor organizations promote the professional and economic interests of workers in a particular occupation, industry, or trade, through interaction with the government and by preparing advertising and other promotional campaigns to the public.

  • Socioeconomic Factors

    • Depending on socioeconomic factors like wealth, education, or occupation, people are more or less likely to vote.
    • Socioeconomic status (SES) is determined by an individual's level of education, income, and occupation.
    • Education also prepares people to deal with the bureaucratic aspects of participation, such as registering to vote or organizing petition drives.
    • People's occupations also are related to their participation and their likelihood to vote.

  • Results of the 1946 Act

    • "The Provisions of this act apply to any person (except a political committee as defined in the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, and duly organized State or local committees of a political party), who by himself, or through any agent or employee or other persons in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, solicits, collects, or receives money or any other thing of value to be used principally to aid, or which the principal purpose of which person is to aid, in the accomplishment of influencing, directly or indirectly, the passage or defeat of any legislation by the Congress of the United States. "
    • This set basic occupational limits as to who would be affected by the law.

  • Forms of Disagreement

    • Examples of direct action can include strikes, workplace occupations, sit-ins, tax resistance, graffiti, sabotage, hacktivism, property destruction, blockades, and other forms of community resistance.
    • The aim is to either obstruct another political agent or political organization from performing some practice to which the activists object; or to solve perceived problems which traditional societal institutions (governments, powerful churches or establishment trade unions) are not addressing to the satisfaction of the direct action participants.

  • Cabinet Departments

    • Each of the Cabinet departments is organized with a similar hierarchical structure.
    • Below the level of deputy secretary, departmental organization varies.
    • Most departments have several under secretaries, who preside over specific branches of the organization rather than being accountable for the functioning of the entire department, as the secretary and deputy secretary are.
    • Labor: The Secretary of Labor is responsible for occupational safety and workplace regulation.

  • Socioeconomic and Racial Demographics

    • Socioeconomic status is determined by people's levels of education, income, and occupation.
    • Schools also prepare people to deal with the bureaucratic aspects of participation, such as registering to vote or organizing a petition drive.
    • Whites are more likely to contact public officials and join political organizations.
    • For example, the southern United States is characterized as more conservative, against organized labor, and typically having less voter turnout.

  • Public Health

    • The dramatic increase in the average life span during the 20th century is widely credited to public health achievements, such as vaccination programs and control of many infectious diseases including polio, diphtheria, yellow fever, and smallpox; effective health and safety policies such as road traffic safety and occupational safety; improved family planning; tobacco control measures; and programs designed to decrease non-communicable diseases by acting on known risk factors such as a person's background, lifestyle and environment.
    • Public health plays an important role in disease prevention efforts in both the developing world and in developed countries, through local health systems and non-governmental organizations.

  • Span of Government

    • A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organization of a specific government.
    • Political support or political capital, such as nationalism or ethnic conflict also decide foreign intervention actions such as occupation, nation-building and national security policies.

  • Gender Discrimination

    • Wage discrimination, the "glass ceiling" (in which gender is perceived to be a barrier to professional advancement), and sexual harassment in the workplace are all examples of occupational sexism.