Unite And Fight

Author : Roger Horowitz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0252066219

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Negro and White, Unite and Fight! by Roger Horowitz Pdf

This pathbreaking study traces the rise--and subsequent fall--of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA). Roger Horowitz emphasizes local leaders and meatpacking workers in Chicago, Kansas City, Sioux City, and Austin, Minnesota, and closely examines the unionizing of the workplace and the prominent role of black workers and women in UPWA. In clear, anecdotal style, Horowitz shows how three major firms in U.S. meat production and distribution became dominant by virtually eliminating union power. The union's decline, he argues, reflected massive pressure by capital for lower labor costs and greater control over the work process. In the end, the victorious firms were those that had been most successful at increasing the rate of exploitation of their workers, who now labor in conditions as bad as those of a century ago. "The definitive study of unionism in the meatpacking industry for the period since the 1920's." -- James R. Barrett, author of Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz Supported by the Illinois Labor History Society

Author : Yu Chun Hua
Publisher : Publicationsbooks
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781304486912

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All souls unite to fight the Lord by Yu Chun Hua Pdf

Twenty-three-year-old Tong Qi was born as a martial artist. Because of the natural power of his right hand, he often injured people in the village. The village head had to drive him out. He was not bad in nature, but he could not control his temper.

Author : Wilson J. Warren
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781587297748

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Tied to the Great Packing Machine by Wilson J. Warren Pdf

Ambitious in its historical scope and its broad range of topics, Tied to the Great Packing Machine tells the dramatic story of meatpacking’s enormous effects on the economics, culture, and environment of the Midwest over the past century and a half. Wilson Warren situates the history of the industry in both its urban and its rural settings—moving from the huge stockyards of Chicago and Kansas City to today’s smaller meatpacking communities—and thus presents a complete portrayal of meatpacking’s place within the larger agro-industrial landscape. Writing from the vantage point of twenty-five years of extensive research, Warren analyzes the evolution of the packing industry from its early period, dominated by the big terminal markets, through the development of new marketing and technical innovations that transformed the ways animals were gathered, slaughtered, and processed and the final products were distributed. In addition, he concentrates on such cultural impacts as ethnic and racial variations, labor unions, gender issues, and changes in Americans’ attitudes toward the ethics of animal slaughter and patterns of meat consumption and such environmental problems as site-point pollution and microbe contamination, ending with a stimulating discussion of the future of American meatpacking. Providing an excellent and well-referenced analysis within a regional and temporal framework that ensures a fresh perspective, Tied to the Great Packing Machine is a dynamic narrative that contributes to a fuller understanding of the historical context and contemporary concerns of an extremely important industry.

Author : Emily Kathryn Morgan
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781609389635

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Imaging Animal Industry by Emily Kathryn Morgan Pdf

Imaging Animal Industry focuses on the visual culture of the American meat industry between 1890 and 1960. Drawing on archival collections across the American Midwest, this book relates a history of the meatpacking industry's use of images in the early to mid-twentieth century. In the process, it reveals the key role that images, particularly photographs, have played in assisting with the rise of industrial meat production.

Author : Phineas Nyabera
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781638854159

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Classics of Socialism and Communism by Phineas Nyabera Pdf

This book is pragmatic, joyous, and informative. When an author writes a book, he or she must predict that the book will still be read after many generations have passed. Because of its unmatched eternal truth, classics of socialism and communism will be read by many generations to eternity. I have written an orderly account of economic theories in simple and straightforward language. The author avoids bombastic vocabularies and unwanted symbols, yet the flow of information is exceedingly accurate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : UOM:39015010881368

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Railway Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chilton Williamson
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781497620780

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After Tocqueville by Chilton Williamson Pdf

The End of Democracy? The fall of the Berlin Wall. The collapse of the Iron Curtain. The Orange Revolution. The Arab Spring. The rush of events in recent decades seems to confirm that Alexis de Tocqueville was right: the future belongs to democracy. But take a closer look. The history of democracy since the 1830s, when Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America, reveals a far more complicated picture. And the future, author Chilton Williamson Jr. demonstrates, appears rather unpromising for democratic institutions around the world. The fall of communism sparked the popular notion that the spread of democracy was inevitable. After Tocqueville challenges this sunny notion. Various aspects of twenty-first-century life that Tocqueville could scarcely have imagined—political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, technological, environmental—militate against democracy, both in developing societies and in the supposedly democratic West. This piercing, elegantly written book raises crucial questions about the future of democracy.

Author : Wilson J. Warren
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1609380312

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Struggling with Iowa's Pride by Wilson J. Warren Pdf

aRecognized between 1880 and 1910 by its trademark label Iowa's Pride, John Morrell and Company is best known for contributing one of the most important local unions to the progressive United Packinghouse Workers of America. During the 1930s and 1940s, its members pursued a militant brand of unionism. By the early 1950s, the local's militancy became a source of contention among the membership. By explaining the effect of Morrell-Ottumwa's union leaders on local and state Democratic politics, especially in the development of the Congress of Industrial Organizations' Iowa State Industrial Union Council and the AFL-CIO's Iowa Federation of Labor, Wilson Warren makes an important contribution to the literature on labor's involvement in the Democratic party's ascendancy across much of the industrial North following World War II. This history of Ottumwa's meatpacking workers provides insights into the development of several forms of labor relations, including the evangelical Christian paternalism, welfare capitalism, and unionism that were distinctive to one blue-collar community but that also reflected workers' experiences in many other rural midwestern industrial communities. By carefully analyzing all relevant labor and industrial sources and by revealing the deeply held aspirations and concerns expressed by both workers and managers, Warren constructs a window through which Iowa's industrial and labor history over the past 120 years can be viewed."

Author : JAY SHERMAN
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780578110189

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ANOTHER MANIFESTO OF A MADMAN FOR GOOD by JAY SHERMAN Pdf

Distractions are all around us and come from all directions; some come in the form of pictures, movies or even books that we greatly enjoy, but still keep us from what we were planning. Distractions come from news outlets, talking heads, and what used to be reporters, government and business leaders who are trying to not only add to their bottom lines, but also distract us because they don't want us to know what's really going on and what they're really planning. They figure if we keep fighting amongst ourselves and buying materialistic crap we don't need, we will be pacified, won't see what's really going on, and therefore wouldn't unite and rise up to stop the whole damn thing. Knowing the distractions are out there is the first step. The second step is to decipher the distractions and their root and truthful definitions so we can slow and then end their sinister intentions.

Author : James Boggs
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814336410

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Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook by James Boggs Pdf

Collects nearly four decades’ worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.

Author : Robert Hartwell Fiske
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393242898

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To the Point: A Dictionary of Concise Writing by Robert Hartwell Fiske Pdf

The essential guide to writing succinctly. Who doesn’t hate wading through wordy paragraphs? Unfortunately, many writers don’t realize when they are padding their sentences and obscuring their meaning. Enter To the Point, the essential guide to writing succinctly. Featuring hundreds of new entries, this freshly updated edition is complete with: • A guide to the basics of writing concisely, including how to reduce the number of words in a phrase, substitute a single word for a phrase, and delete extraneous words and phrases. • The "Dictionary of Concise Writing," which gives concise alternatives to thousands of wordy phrases. Language expert Robert Hartwell Fiske uses each wordy phrase in a sentence and then rewrites or deletes the phrase entirely to show how the sentence can be improved. • The brand new "Guide to Obfuscation: A Reverse Dictionary," which helps writers build a more pithy vocabulary. To the Point is the perfect reference book for anyone who wants to communicate more effectively through clear and beautiful writing.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Communism
ISBN : MINN:31951T004119739

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Communist Aggression Investigation, Fourth Interim Report by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression Pdf

Examines communist and Soviet activities in Eastern Europe leading to establishment of communist governments and repression of liberties. May 3 and 4 hearings were held in Chicago, Ill.; May 7 and 8 hearings were held in NYC; June 14-19 hearings were held in London, England; and June 23-30 hearings were held in Munich, West Germany.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Agression
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Communism
ISBN : IND:30000133268619

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Communism Vs. Nations and Peoples by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Agression Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Baltic States
ISBN : IND:30000132472857

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Baltic States Investigation by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Communist Aggression Pdf

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063969224

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf