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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.
Agricultural laborers --- Agricultural wages. --- Social conditions. --- E-books --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Agricultural income --- Wages
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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.
Labor movement. --- Coal miners --- Coal miners. --- Labor movement --- Colliers (Coal miners) --- Miners --- Labor and laboring classes --- Social movements --- Labor unions. --- History --- Labor unions --- Middle West. --- American Midwest --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Midwest --- Midwest States --- Midwestern States --- North Central Region --- North Central States --- Mississippi River Valley --- Northwest, Old --- Agricultural laborers --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- E-books --- History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- United States --- United States of America
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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).
Tools --- Classical antiquities. --- Tools. --- History --- To 1500. --- London (England) --- Great Britain --- England --- Great Britain. --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Artisans --- Agricultural laborers --- Artizans --- Craftsmen --- Craftspeople --- Craftspersons --- Skilled labor --- Cottage industries --- Hand tools --- Handtools --- Hardware --- Implements, utensils, etc. --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Londen (England) --- Londinium (England) --- Londres (England) --- Londýn (England) --- Lunnainn (England) --- Artisans. --- Agricultural laborers. --- To 1500 --- Rome (Empire) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Romans --- Material culture
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