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Author : Sheldon Spear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : PSU:000022800039
Author : Daniel E. Bender,Richard A. Greenwald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136064029
For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an unregulated global economy. This collection unites some of the best recent work in the interdisciplinary field of sweatshop studies. It examines changing understandings of the roots and problems of the sweatshop, and explores how the history of the American sweatshop is inexorably intertwined with global migration of capital, labor, ideas and goods. The American sweatshop may be located abroad but remains bound to the United States through ties of fashion, politics, labor and economics. The global character of the American sweatshop has presented a barrier to unionization and regulation. Anti-sweatshop campaigns have often focused on local organizing and national regulation while the sweatshop remains global. Thus, the epitaph for the sweatshop has frequently been written and re-written by unionists, reformers, activists and politicians. So, too, have they mourned its return.
Author : Bonnie Gunzenhauser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317316176
A collection of essays that offer a methodological framework for the history of reading. Focusing on a specific historical moment, it gathers statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures, and print runs to answer questions about what was being read and by whom in a particular place and time.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Wyoming Valley (Pa.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015591832
Author : Sheldon Spear
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0980149606
"This book examines the public life of the theatrical politician with the waxed mustache and flamboyant wardrobe. Flood's seniority on two Appropriations subcommittees enabled him to funnel funds to Pennsylvania's economically distressed 11th Congressional District. Intensely interested in foreign affairs, he surpassed most of his colleagues in the strength of his anti-Communist rhetoric. His long career ended in resignation after he was implicated in corruption allegations." "Flood was a major political figure. Although several scholars have touched on aspects of his career, Sheldon Spear has written a long overdue, full-scale biography based largely on the congressman's voluminous papers at King's College."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : William C. Kashatus
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640122697
On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, off the coast of Cape Cod. Mary Jo Kopechne, a twenty-eight-year-old former staffer for Kennedy’s brother Robert, died in the crash. The scandal that followed demeaned Kopechne’s reputation and scapegoated her for Ted Kennedy’s inability to run for the presidency instead of acknowledging her as an innocent victim in a tragedy that took her life. William C. Kashatus’s biography of Mary Jo Kopechne illuminates the life of a politically committed young woman who embodied the best ideals of the sixties. Arriving in Washington in 1963, Kopechne soon joined the staff of Robert F. Kennedy and committed herself to his vision of compassion for the underprivileged, social idealism tempered by political realism, and a more humane nation. Kashatus details her work as an energetic and trusted staffer who became one of the famed Boiler Room Girls at the heart of RFK’s presidential campaign. Shattered by his assassination, Kopechne took a break from politics before returning as a consultant. It was at a reunion of the Boiler Room Girls that she accepted a ride from Edward Kennedy—a decision she would pay for with her life. The untold—and long overdue—story of a promising life cut short, Before Chappaquiddick tells the human side of one of the most memorable scandals of the 1960s. Purchase the audio edition.
Author : Robert P. Wolensky
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271086514
By the mid-1930s, Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal industry was facing a steady decline. Mining areas such as the Wyoming Valley around the cities of Wilkes-Barre and Pittston were full of willing workers (including women) who proved irresistibly attractive to New York City’s “runaway shops”—ladies’ apparel factories seeking lower labor and other costs. The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) soon followed, and the Valley became a thriving hub of clothing production and union activity. This volume tells the story of the area’s apparel industry through the voices of men and women who lived it. Drawing from an archive of over sixty audio-recorded interviews within the Northeastern Pennsylvania Oral and Life History Collection, Sewn in Coal Country showcases sixteen stories told by workers, shop owners, union leaders, and others. The interview subjects recount the ILGWU-led movement to organize the shops, the conflicts between the district union and the national office in New York, the solidarity unionism approach of leader Min Matheson, the role of organized crime within the business, and the failed efforts to save the industry in the 1980s and 1990s. Robert P. Wolensky places the narratives in the larger context of American clothing manufacturing during the period and highlights their broader implications for the study of labor, gender, the working class, and oral history. Highly readable and thoroughly enlightening, this significant contribution to the study of labor history and women’s history will appeal to anyone interested in the relationships among workers, unions, management, and community; the effects of economic change on an area and its residents; the role of organized crime within the industry; and Pennsylvania history—especially the social history of industrialization and deindustrialization during the twentieth century.
Author : Sheldon Spear
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611462081
This book offers a consciously eclectic approach to the rich history of Pennsylvania in the period from 1740 to 1950. Combining original research with syntheses of relevant work by other historians, Pennsylvania Histories seeks to appeal to both professional historians and general readers by presenting a range of significant individuals, groups, and events that are likely to be less familiar to audiences interested in the history of Pennsylvania. The Moravians, for example, emerge as a denomination whose involvement in proselytization activities sets them apart from the quietism of the Amish and other well-known sects. Although the book concentrates on Pennsylvania, the subject matter is also germane to wider issues in the areas of economics, race and ethnicity, religion, and gender studies. Among the many topics discussed, Pennsylvania Histories considers the French and British refugees who settled near the Susquehanna River during the late eighteenth century, the burning of the town of Chambersburg by Confederate raiders in 1864, and the semi-public executions in Pennsylvania towns that persisted into the early twentieth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0271045884
The garment industry gained a foothold in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region as mines were closing. "Runaway" factories, especially from Manhattan, set up shop in mining towns where labor was plentiful and unions scarce. By the 1930s, garment factories employed thousands of wives and daughters of unemployed or underemployed coal miners. Organizing these workers proved difficult for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081815270
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anthracite coal industry
ISBN : PSU:000046457479
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canals
ISBN : PSU:000043623549
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Wyoming Valley (Pa.)
ISBN : PSU:000043151486
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017872024
Author : Frederick Charles Johnson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021504041
The Historical Record of Wyoming Valley 6 is a compilation of historical essays and documents related to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. Edited by historian Frederick Charles Johnson, this volume includes articles on the early settlement of the valley, its role in the French and Indian War, and the infamous Wyoming Massacre of 1778. With maps, illustrations, and first-person accounts, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of early American history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
