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A global history of worker control - challenging capital, the state and the trade union leaders.
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Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation's development?Despite their apparent resemblance-a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities-Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before la
Labor movement --- Environmentalism --- History.
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Labor movement --- Labor unions --- Working class --- Strikes and lockouts
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Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no reason why service-sector workers cannot follow that same path. In If We Can Win Here, Fran Quigley tells the stories of janitors, fry cooks, and health care aides trying to fight their way to middle-class incomes in Indianapolis. He also chronicles the struggles of the union organizers with whom the workers have made common cause.The service-sector workers of Indianapolis mirror the city's demographics: they are white, African American, and Latino. In contrast, the union organizers are mostly white and younger than the workers they help rally. Quigley chronicles these allies' setbacks, victories, bonds, and conflicts while placing their journey in the broader context of the global economy and labor history. As one Indiana-based organizer says of the struggle being waged in a state that has earned a reputation as antiunion: "If we can win here, we can win anywhere." The outcome of the battle of Indianapolis may foretell the fate of workers across the United States.
Labor movement --- Labor unions --- Service industries workers --- Working poor --- Organizing
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This text examines the concept of freedom in the context of American labour history. Nine essays develop themes in this history which show that liberty of contract and inalienable rights form two contradictory traditions concerning freedom.
Labor --- Labor movement --- Labor policy --- Labor laws and legislation --- History.
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Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity. While historians have often attributed the rise of the Social Gospel to middle-class ministers, seminary professors, and social reformers, this book places working people at the very centre of the story. The major characters - blacksmiths, glove makers, teamsters, printers, and the like - have been mostly forgotten, but as Carter convincingly argues, their collective contribution to American Social Christianity was no less significant than that of Walter Rauschenbusch or Jane Addams.
Labor unions --- Labor movement --- Christian sociology --- History. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.
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Immigré aux États-Unis, Joe Hill consacre sa vie à la lutte révolutionnaire pour le syndicat Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Hobo, il va de grève en grève utilisant pour arme son talent de songwriter. Ses chansons deviennent des hymnes dans la classe prolétaire et incarnent très vite l’ensemble des IWW.En 1915, il est condamné à mort en Utah, suite à un coup monté pour lequel il est accusé de meurtre et d’un procès à charge où aucune preuve n’est établie. Joe Hill devient alors un symbole de l’oppression capitaliste et étatique. De nombreux artistes vont chanter son destin parmi lesquels, pour les plus connus par le “tout public“ : Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello (Rage against the machine)…Franklin Rosemont écrit ici la biographie référence de Joe Hill. Mais bien plus que l’histoire du songwriter, il balaye l’ensemble des pans de la culture populaire étatsunienne : racisme, féminisme, question indienne, religion, justice, écologie…Nous faisant rencontrer nombre d’écrivains, de poètes et de dessinateurs, Rosemont remonte jusqu’aux années 70, tirant les fils de l’histoire de l’art populaire et prolétaire à travers le 20e siècle.
Syndicalisme révolutionnaire --- Working class |z United States --- Labor movement |z United States --- History. --- Hill, Joe, --- Industrial Workers of the World --- Working class --- Labor movement --- Songs --- Drawing, American --- Travailleurs --- Mouvement ouvrier --- Labor movement. --- Working class. --- Social aspects. --- Histoire. --- United States
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Precarious employment --- Class consciousness --- Labor movement --- Working class --- Political aspects --- History. --- History --- France --- Economic conditions.
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"As organizações de trabalhadores passaram por importantes transformações no início do século XX, quando o Estado brasileiro deixou de se pautar por uma lógica liberal e assumiu uma perspectiva corporativa. Este livro mobiliza conceitos geográficos para analisar como os sindicatos organizavam suas ações territoriais e de que maneira o Estado interferia nelas. O período estudado contempla uma mudança na relação dos mecanismos estatais nas entidades dos trabalhadores, sendo que se no início do século tratava essencialmente de reprimir as manifestações operárias, por volta da década de 1930 influía diretamente na organização classista, com o fim da pluralidade sindical e o estabelecimento de uma ação sindical única, por exemplo. A relação entre o Estado e os sindicatos sob uma perspectiva territorial nos fornece, assim, um estudo aprofundado das conformações do sindicalismo no início do século XX e apresenta uma contribuição significativa de como a Geografia pode ser apropriada para o estudo dos movimentos sociais."
Labor movement --- Labor unions --- Labor unions. --- Syndicalism. --- History --- Government policy --- Political activity --- POLITICAL SCIENCE
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