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The prosperity paradox : fewer and more vulnerable farm workers
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ISBN: 0192638092 0191904538 9780192638090 0192638106 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press,

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'The Prosperity Paradox' explains why farm worker problems often worsen as the agricultural sector shrinks and lays out options to help vulnerable workers.


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Union renegades : miners, capitalism, and organizing in the Gilded Age
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ISBN: 0252043502 9780252052385 0252052382 9780252043505 9780252085406 Year: 2021 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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In the late nineteenth century, Midwestern miners often had to decide if joining a union was in their interest. Arguing that these workers were neither pro-union nor anti-union, Dana M. Caldemeyer shows that they acted according to what they believed would benefit them and their families. As corporations moved to control coal markets and unions sought to centralize their organizations to check corporate control, workers were often caught between these institutions and sided with whichever one offered the best advantage in the moment. Workers chased profits while paying union dues, rejected national unions while forming local orders, and broke strikes while claiming to be union members. This pragmatic form of unionism differed from what union leaders expected of rank-and-file members, but for many workers the choice to follow or reject union orders was a path to better pay, stability, and independence in an otherwise unstable age.Nuanced and eye-opening, Union Renegades challenges popular notions of workers attitudes during the Gilded Age.


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London's Roman tools : craft, agriculture and experience in an ancient city
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ISBN: 9781407357386 1407357387 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oxford, UK BAR Publishing

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"London was the administrative centre of Roman Britain, and its largest city. After centuries of excavation, Londinium is one of the best understood cities in the Empire. London is also home to one of the most exceptional collections of craft and agricultural tools in the Roman world. London's Roman Tools moves beyond typological analysis to show how Roman artefacts can illuminate the lives of ordinary people. Using a framework of practice theory, it explores the lives of Roman craft and agricultural workers in London, a diverse and changing group which has rarely been examined previously. Also provided is an illustrated catalogue of 837 Roman tools from London. Many are exceptionally well preserved, some are unknown elsewhere, and most have not previously been published. A detailed typological discussion synthesises decades of developments in French and German literature with new insights from the London material."--Back cover (page 4 of cover).

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