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Propos d'étymologie sociale
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ISBN: 9782847884296 9782847880090 2847880100 9782847880106 2847880097 9782847880083 2847880089 Year: 2002 Publisher: Lyon: ENS éditions,

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Cet ouvrage est le contraire d'un dictionnaire. Il ne parle pas de « langue » ; il ne prétend pas régenter les significations, par delà les emplois concrets du vocabulaire, pour édifier un répertoire de normes généralisables. Bien au contraire, c'est aux situations qu'il s'arrête, dans le fouillis de l'histoire, afin de saisir les différences d'utilisation davantage que les consensus, ces instants de fracture qui justement font avancer la langue. D'où l'aspect hétérogène d'un recueil d'articles et de chroniques d'origines diverses. Pour tous ces textes disparates, l'objectif est cependant le même : saisir la forme ou le fond d'un terme au moment d'une « entrée en politique », en entendant par « forme » sa manière d'être dans l'énoncé, ses liens aux autres mots, le rythme de ses fréquences, sa spécificité d'emploi, et par « fond » les stratégies qui se servent de lui au cours d'échanges entre locuteurs ou de situations d'affrontement dont la parole est témoin et actrice. Lors de ces échanges, se dissimulent - ou se révèlent - les enjeux profonds voire les idéologies d'arrière-plan qui habitent les mots et les liaisons entre mots. Ces études de cas, plus ou moins élaborées selon les supports, convergent vers une conception de l'émergence du sens que nous appelons « étymologie sociale ». This work is the opposite of a dictionary. It does not deal with “language”; it does not claim authority over meanings, beyond the concrete use of vocabulary items, to compile a directory of generalisible criteria. On the contrary, it focuses on situations, drawn from the chaos of history, to identify differences in usage rather than consensus, those moments of rupture which move language forward. Hence the disparate nature of a collection of articles and chronicles from various sources. For all these disparate texts, however, the aim is the same: to identify the form and content of a term at the moment when it “entered politics”, taking “form” to be its distinctive character in the…

Strikebreaking & intimidation
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ISBN: 0807853739 0807827053 0807860468 9780807860465 9780807827055 9780807853733 9798890875563 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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Using a social-historical approach, the author focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts and considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter them. The book also traces the economic restructuring which transformed corporate anti-unionism.

The Newark Teacher Strikes
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ISBN: 1283543427 9786613855879 0813547024 9780813547022 0813530571 9780813530574 9781283543422 6613855871 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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For three weeks in 1970 and for eleven weeks in 1971, the schools in Newark, New Jersey, were paralyzed as the teachers went on strike. In the wake of the 1971 strike, almost two hundred were arrested and jailed. The Newark Teachers Union said their members wanted improved education for students. The Board of Education claimed the teachers primarily desired more money. After interviewing more than fifty teachers who were on the front lines during these strikes, historian Steve Golin concludes that another, equally important agenda was on the table, and has been ignored until now. These professionals wanted power, to be allowed a voice in the educational agenda. Through these oral histories, Golin examines the hopes of the teachers as they picketed, risking arrest and imprisonment. Why did they strike? How did the union represent them? How did their action—and incarceration—change them? Did they continue to teach in impoverished schools? Golin also discusses the tensions arising during that period. These include differences in attitudes toward unions among black, Jewish, and Italian teachers; different organizing strategies of men and women; and conflict between teachers’ professional and working-class identities. The first part of the book sets the stage by exploring the experience of teachers in Newark from World War II to the 1970 strike. After covering both strikes, Golin brings the story up to 1995 in the epilogue, which traces the connection between educational reform and union democracy. Teacher Power enhances our understanding of what has worked and what hasn’t worked in attempts at reforming urban schools. Equally importantly, the teachers’ vivid words and the author’s perceptive analysis enables us to view the struggles of not just Newark, but the entire United States during a turbulent time.

La grève en France. Une histoire sociale ( XIXe-XXe siècle ).
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ISBN: 2738111726 9782738111722 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris Editions Odile Jacob

Propos d'étymologie sociale
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ISBN: 9782847884289 9782847884296 9782847884302 9782847880083 9782847880090 9782847880106 2847880097 2847880089 2847880100 Year: 2002 Publisher: Lyon: ENS éditions,

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Rassemblés autour de l'idée toute simple que la langue est d'abord un produit social héritier des conflits dans lesquels elle s'est trouvée à la fois militante, médiatrice et dépositaire, ce recueil d'articles et de chroniques illustre en partie un vocabulaire sollicité par les dissensions sociales, celui de la grève. On y verra comment se met en place - au 19e siècle surtout - la résolution symbolique des conflits, soit dans des consensus provisoires sur le sens, des tabous ou des novations en langage, soit par des mots flous que déchirent des sémantismes et des appropriations contradictoires. Aucun terme de ce champ qui ne soit en même temps enjeu de polarisation, de modalisation, de coloration ou d'exclusion. Condamnation des trics et des coalitions, phagocytages de peuple et d'ouvriers, opprobre sur les jaunes, aménagement patient des confréries, des compagnonnages, des mutuelles, des bourses et du syndicalisme confédéré, brandissement du Grand Jour puis du Grand Soir, rejet officiel dans les argots ou reprise à contre-courant des tenants du parler populaire... À la limite, l'incertitude de la désignation (association, grève) tendrait à faire oublier les enracinements du vocabulaire au cœur des représentations sociales et à faire croire aux définitions minimales et abstraites des dictionnaires, Or, il paraît clair aujourd'hui que le mythe d'une langue qui serait neutre a définitivement vécu. Les mots ne sont pas grains de sable sans poids dans le vent de l'histoire. Ils sont le vent et l'histoire. Based on the simple idea that language is first and foremost a social product born of the conflicts in which it has played a militant, conciliatory and protective role, this collection of articles and chronicles provides a partial outline of a vocabulary called on during social dissension, namely industrial action. The reader sees how, in the 19th century in particular, symbolic conflict resolution emerged, either in the form of tentative consensus on meaning, taboos…

The strike that changed New York
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ISBN: 1281730823 9786611730826 0300130708 9780300130706 0300081227 9780300081220 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly African-American. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially divisive moment in the city in more than a century, sparking three teachers' strikes and increasingly angry confrontations between black and white New Yorkers at bargaining tables, on picket lines, and in the streets. This superb book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis-a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its legacy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications.

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