The Union Makes Us Strong

Author : David Wellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521629683

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American labour history is typically interpreted by scholars as a history of defeat. Hidden by this conventional wisdom are a handful of militant unions that did not follow the putative Congress of Industrial Organizations trajectory. Based on three years of ethnographic research, this book examines a union that organised itself to systematically challenge management's rule on the shopfloor: San Francisco's longshore union. American unionism looks quite different than conventional wisdom suggests when everyday union practices are observed. American labour's trajectory, this book argues, is neither inevitable nor determined; militant, democratic forms of unionism are possible in the United States; and collective bargaining does not automatically eliminate contests for workplace control. The contract is a bargain that reflects and reproduces fundamental disagreement; it states how production and conflict will proceed.

Author : Dietmar Kneitschel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Collective bargaining unit
ISBN : UOM:39015021903011

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The Union Makes Us Strong! by Dietmar Kneitschel Pdf

Author : Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520218338

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Battling for American Labor by Howard Kimeldorf Pdf

"This riveting, nuanced book takes seriously the workplace radicalism of many early twentieth century American workers. The restriction of working class militancy to the workplace, it shows, was no mere economism. Organizational rather than psychological in orientation, Battling For American Labor accounts for both the early preference of dockworkers in Philadelphia and hotel and restaurant workers in New York for the IWW rather than the AFL and for the reversal of this choice in the 1920s. In so doing, it points the way to a fresh reading of American labor history."—Ira Katznelson, Columbia University "Howard Kimeldorf's book, based on sound and solid historical research in archives, newspapers, journals, memoirs and oral histories, argues that workers in the United States, regardless of their precise union affiliation, harbored syndicalist tendencies which manifested themselves in direct action on the job. Because Kimeldorf's book reinterprets much of the history of the labor movement in the United States, it will surely generate much controversy among scholars and capture the attention of readers."—Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, SUNY "Howard Kimeldorf's new book is a very exciting accomplishment. This book will surely leave a major imprint on labor history and the sociology of labor. Kimeldorf's focus on repertoires of collective action and practice instead of ideology is a particularly important contribution; one that will force students of labor to rethink many worn-out arguments. After reading Battling For American Labor, one will no longer be able to assume the IWW's defeat was inevitable, or take seriously psychological theories of worker consciousness."—David Wellman, author of The Union Makes Us Strong

Author : Tony Lane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : 0099086425

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The Union Makes Us Strong by Tony Lane Pdf

Author : Moon-Kie Jung,João H. Costa Vargas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478013167

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Antiblackness by Moon-Kie Jung,João H. Costa Vargas Pdf

Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete. Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun

Author : Mark Crail
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781844686827

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Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors by Mark Crail Pdf

If you want to find out about the life of an ancestor who was active in the labor movement or was a union member, this handbook will be a fascinating introduction to the subject. Mark Crail provides a graphic and authoritative account of the history of the labor movement in Britain from the early nineteenth century to the modern day. He gives a vivid insight into the key stages in the development of labor relations - the battles fought by labor movement pioneers, the formation of the first unions, the influence of Chartism and the early socialist societies, the rise of the Labor Party and other left-wing groups, and the impact of organized labor on workers lives as ordinary people gradually won the right to vote over the course of 200 years. At the same time he describes in detail the various books, museums, archives, websites and other resources that researchers can use to explore labor history for themselves and to uncover the careers and experience of their ancestors. A mass of information is available relating to individuals and to labor history in general, and this handbook is an invaluable guide to it. 'Tracing Your Labor Movement Ancestors' should be essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn about the origins and development of the labor movement and the role of individuals within it.

Author : United Cement, Lime, Gypsum, and Allied Workers International Union
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Cement industries
ISBN : UCAL:B3974344

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Proceedings, Special Merger Convention by United Cement, Lime, Gypsum, and Allied Workers International Union Pdf

Author : Allan H. Ryskind
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4432501

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Hubert; an Unauthorized Biography of the Vice President by Allan H. Ryskind Pdf

Author : David Burner,Robert D. Marcus,Jorj Tilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : UCAL:B4469401

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America Through the Looking Glass by David Burner,Robert D. Marcus,Jorj Tilson Pdf

Author : Seneca
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 101
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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L. ANNAEUS SENECA ON BENEFITS by Seneca Pdf

Seneca, the favourite classic of the early fathers of the church and of the Middle Ages, whom Jerome, Tertullian, and Augustine speak of as "Seneca noster," who was believed to have corresponded with St. Paul, and upon whom [Footnote: On the "De Clementia," an odd subject for the man who burned Servetus alive for differing with him.] Calvin wrote a commentary, seems almost forgotten in modern times. Perhaps some of his popularity may have been due to his being supposed to be the author of those tragedies which the world has long ceased to read, but which delighted a period that preferred Euripides to Aeschylus: while casuists must have found congenial matter in an author whose fantastic cases of conscience are often worthy of Sanchez or Escobar. Yet Seneca's morality is always pure, and from him we gain, albeit at second hand, an insight into the doctrines of the Greek philosophers, Zeno, Epicurus, Chrysippus, &c., whose precepts and system of religious thought had in cultivated Roman society taken the place of the old worship of Jupiter and Quirinus. Since Lodge's edition (fol. 1614), no complete translation of Seneca has been published in England, though Sir Roger L'Estrange wrote paraphrases of several Dialogues, which seem to have been enormously popular, running through more than sixteen editions. I think we may conjecture that Shakespeare had seen Lodge's translation, from several allusions to philosophy, to that impossible conception "the wise man," and especially from a passage in "All's Well that ends Well," which seems to breathe the very spirit of "De Beneficiis."

Author : Charles Walton Sanders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Readers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1DJY

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Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders Pdf

Author : Barbara Keresty,Susan O'Leary,Dale Wortley
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015045972307

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You Can Make a Difference by Barbara Keresty,Susan O'Leary,Dale Wortley Pdf

Educators turned activists share their hard-won experiences of implementing a public education program that has been able to get out from under the specter of budget cuts, shifting demographics, and the winds of political change.

Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Benevolence
ISBN : HARVARD:HXQ8SC

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L. Annaeus Seneca On Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pdf

Author : Robert C. Cottrell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538112939

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All-American Rebels by Robert C. Cottrell Pdf

From women’s suffrage to Civil Rights for African Americans, to the environment, and the gay and lesbian liberation movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many forms and reinvented itself many times over the past century. In All-American Rebels, historian Robert C. Cottrell traces the rise and fall, ebb and flow of left-wing American movements. Following an overview of early 20th century movements, Cottrell focuses on the 1960s to today, offering readers a concise introduction and helping them to understand the political and ideological roots of the Left today. Cottrell includes chapters on the most recent versions of the American left, discussing community organizing, gay liberation, the women’s movement, the Campaign for Economic Democracy, the nuclear freeze movement, opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America, the anti-WTO campaign, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and more. The demand for and support of democracy and the quest for empowerment in various guises unifies these different lefts to one another and to the general unfolding of American history. Cottrell argues that democratic engagement has proven inconsistent and at times outright contradictory. The Left has been most successful when it fully embraces a democratic vision.

Author : David M. Rosen
Publisher : [Westlake Village, Calif.] : Aware Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Ballads, American
ISBN : UOM:39015009431217

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Protest Songs in America by David M. Rosen Pdf