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The Labor Story : A Popular History of American Labor 1786-1949.
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ISBN: 1839746866 Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago : Barakaldo Books,

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Harry Van Arsdale, Jr.
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ISBN: 1315703793 1317468910 0765610442 9781317468912 9781315703794 9781317468905 1317468902 9781317468929 1317468929 9780765610447 9780765610447 Year: 2015 Publisher: London

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Harry Van Arsdale (1905-1986) was a towering figure in the New York labor scene. After being initiated into the Local 3 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1925 and becoming its business manager in 1933, Van Arsdale turned the then corrupt and disorganized union into a force to be reckoned with. He became president of the New York City Central Labor Council in 1957, which put him in a position to become a greater influence for labor relations locally and nationally. As business manager and president of these organizations, Van Arsdale advocated and won shorter work days, in orde.

Solidarity divided
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ISBN: 0520261569 0520255259 9786612359422 1282359428 0520934741 9780520934740 9780520255258 9781282359420 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berkeley

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The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin, two longtime union insiders whose experiences as activists of color grant them a unique vantage on the problems now facing U.S. labor, offer a remarkable mix of vivid history and probing analysis. They chart changes in U.S. manufacturing, examine the onslaught of globalization, consider the influence of the environment on labor, and provide the first broad analysis of the fallout from the 2000 and 2004 elections on the U.S. labor movement. Ultimately calling for a wide-ranging reexamination of the ideological and structural underpinnings of today's labor movement, this is essential reading for understanding how the battle for social justice can be fought and won.

The crisis of imprisonment
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ISBN: 9780521537834 9780521830966 0521830966 0521537835 9780511511721 051138999X 1107174627 9786611370459 0511394063 0511393261 0511511728 0511390750 1281370452 0511391951 0511394713 9780511394713 9780511394065 9781107174627 9781281370457 6611370455 9780511393266 9780511391958 9780511390753 Year: 2008 Volume: *6 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular protest, and political crisis that characterized early American prisons. She details the debates surrounding prison reform, including the limits of state power, the influence of market forces, the role of unfree labor, and the 'just deserts' of wrongdoers. McLennan also explores the system that existed between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, where private companies relied on prisoners for labor. Finally, she discusses the rehabilitation model that has primarily characterized the penal system in the twentieth century. Unearthing fresh evidence from prison and state archives, McLennan shows how, in each of three distinct periods of crisis, widespread dissent culminated in the dismantling of old systems of imprisonment.


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Eyes on labor
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ISBN: 1283577291 9786613889744 0199877556 0199768226 0199768234 9780199877553 9780199768226 9780199768233 9781283577298 6613889741 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

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In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of t


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Soapbox rebellion
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ISBN: 0817318062 0817386963 9780817386962 9780817318062 9780817318062 Year: 2013 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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Soapbox Rebellion, a new critical history of the free speech fights of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), illustrates how the lively and colorful soapbox culture of the "Wobblies" generated novel forms of class struggle. From 1909 to 1916, thousands of IWW members engaged in dozens of fights for freedom of speech throughout the American West. The volatile spread and circulation of hobo agitation during these fights amounted to nothing less than a soapbox rebellion in which public speech became the principal site of the struggle of the few to exploit th

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