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The Lion and the Lady Revisited: Another Look at the Firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles Public Librarian in 1905.
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Wiegand, Wayne A. – Library and Information Science Research, An International Journal, 1983
Recounts events that led to the firing of Mary L. Jones, Director of Los Angeles Public Library (1905) and caught in public crossfire such figures as the mayor, city council, library board of directors, Charles Lummis (Jones's replacement), Susan B. Anthony, Anna Shaw, Herbert Putnam, and Melvil Dewey. (29 references) (EJS)
Descriptors: Administrators, Dismissal (Personnel), Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
The Mississippi School Employment Procedures Act and Selected Litigation Arising from Its Application.
Sistrunk, Walter E.; Madison, Ernestine – 1983
Although Mississippi has no statutes for granting tenure to public school employees, state laws passed in 1953, 1974, and 1977 do provide for due process in case of teacher suspension or dismissal. To determine to what extent the state's 153 public school districts were implementing employee due process under the 1977 "School Employment…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Dismissal (Personnel), Due Process, Elementary Secondary Education
The Relationship between High Labor-Management Conflict and Turnover of Key School District Personnel.
Caldwell, William E.; Sites, Woodrow H. – 1983
Beginning with a review of recent literature on social conflict, this study adopts Coser's distinction between realistic conflict, which seeks to balance both sides of a disagreement, and nonrealistic conflict, which seeks domination by only one party. Where nonrealistic conflict develops in intense labor-management disputes in public school…
Descriptors: Board Candidates, Boards of Education, Community Action, Community Influence