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  2. Economy of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Late in the 19th century, Chicago was part of the bicycle craze, as home to Western Wheel Company, which introduced stamping to the production process and significantly reduced costs, [12] while early in the 20th century, the city was part of the automobile revolution, hosting the brass era car builder Bugmobile, which was founded there in 1907.

  3. Right-to-work law - Wikipedia

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    Employment. Unemployment ; United States portal ... for example the voluntary and third party sectors, ... Florida (Constitution, adopted 1944, revised 1968) [47 ...

  4. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    1866–1947: Segregation, voting [Statute] Enacted 17 Jim Crow laws between 1866 and 1947 in the areas of miscegenation (6) and education (2), employment (1) and a residential ordinance passed by the city of San Francisco that required all Chinese inhabitants to live in one area of the city.

  5. United States labor law - Wikipedia

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    City of Ontario v. Quon, 130 S.Ct. 2619, (2010) the right of privacy did not extend to employer owned electronic devices so an employee could be dismissed for sending sexually explicit messages from an employer owned pager. Heffernan v. City of Paterson, 578 US __ (2016)

  6. List of edge cities - Wikipedia

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    An edge city is a term coined by Joel Garreau's in his 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, for a place in a metropolitan area, outside cities' original downtowns (thus, in the suburbs or, if within the city limits of the central city, an area of suburban density), with a large concentration of jobs, office space, and retail space ...

  7. Tax increment financing - Wikipedia

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    According to an article published in the Journal of Property Tax Assessment & Administration in 2009, the increase in the use of TIF in Chicago resulted in a "substantial portion of Chicago's property tax base and the land area" being subsumed by these levy zones—"26 percent of the city's land area and almost a quarter of the total value of ...

  8. Employment contract - Wikipedia

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    Each employment contract contains a job description including the range of activities that an employee is reasonably expected to perform. Scope of employment often identifies demotion, transfer to different responsibilities, and modification or increasing current responsibilities. Travel and relocation can also be discussed in this section.

  9. Creative class - Wikipedia

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    The creative class is the posit of American urban studies theorist Richard Florida for an ostensible socioeconomic class.Florida, a professor and head of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, [1] maintains that the creative class is a key driving force for economic development of post-industrial cities in North America.