(Izdošanas datums: 10-Dec-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047411)
Paraprofessional educators entered US schools amidst the struggles of the late 1960s. Immersed in the crisis of care in public education, paras improved systems of education and social welfare despite low pay and second-rate status. Understanding p...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047312)
As Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of space, a diverse range of these Roman-Catholic immigrants saw their new country in a much different way t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047176)
Historians and readers alike often overlook the everyday experiences of workers. Drawing on years of interviews and archival research, Daniel J. Clark presents the rich, interesting, and sometimes confounding lives of men and women who worked in Detr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Aug-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047237)
Call center employees once blended skill and emotional intelligence to solve customer problems while the workplace itself encouraged camaraderie and job satisfaction. Ten years after telecom industry deregulation, management had isolated the largely...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056741)
From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They also formed the backbone of a tented entertainment industry that raised...Lasīt vairāk
David W. Montgomery, Shelton Stromquist, James R. Barrett
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jul-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056796)
A foundational figure in modern labor history, David Montgomery both redefined and reoriented the field. This collection of Montgomerys most important published and unpublished articles and essays draws from the historians entire five-decade career...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056833)
A career-spanning collection of writings by the legendary labor historianOne of American labor historys most prominent scholars, Melvyn Dubofsky curated an accessible style and historical reach that have long marked his work as required reading for...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252047374)
It is a powerful story: the relationship between the 1960s New Left and organized labor was summed up by hardhats confronting students and others over US involvement in Vietnam. But the real story goes beyond the "e;Love It or Leave It"e; sig...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Apr-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056666)
Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lauses biograp...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252055911)
Race against Liberalism examines how black worker activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. David M. Lewis-Colman traces the substantive, long-standing disagreements between liberals and the bla...Lasīt vairāk
David O. Stowell, Joshua Brown, Steven J Hoffman, Michael Kazin, David Miller, Richard Schneirov, David O. Stowell, Shelton Stromquist, David O. Stowell
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252056352)
A spectacular example of collective protest, the Great Strike of 1877--actually a sequence of related actions--was Americas first national strike and the first major strike against the railroad industry. In some places, non-railroad workers also aba...Lasīt vairāk
Eric Fure-Slocum, Gwendolyn Alker, Claire Goldstene, Eric Fure-Slocum, Claire Goldstene, Gary Rhoades, Elizabeth Hohl, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Joe Berry, Helena Worthen...
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252055201)
An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiencesIn the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252055119)
A distinctive exploration of how workers see workFor more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to fini...Lasīt vairāk
Frederick W. Gooding Jr., Joseph E Slater, Eric S. Yellin, Joseph A. McCartin, Eileen Boris, Cathleen D Cahill, William Powell Jones, Amy Zanoni, Jon Shelton, Katherine Turk...
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054549)
From white-collar executives to mail carriers, public workers meet the needs of the entire nation. Frederick W. Gooding Jr. and Eric S. Yellin edit a collection of new research on this understudied workforce. Part One begins in the late nineteenth- a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054518)
Once a busy if impoverished center for the anthracite coal industry, northeastern Pennsylvania exists today as a region suffering inexorable decline--racked by economic hardship and rampant opioid abuse, abandoned by young people, and steeped in xeno...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jul-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054570)
The construction trades once provided unionized craftsmen a route to the middle class and a sense of pride and dignity often denied other blue-collar workers. Today, union members still earn wages and benefits that compare favorably to those of colle...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jul-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054532)
In the aftermath of the Spanish-American War, the United States acquisition of an overseas empire compelled the nation to reconsider the boundary between domestic and foreign--and between nation and empire. William D. Riddell looks at the experience...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Mar-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054082)
As the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054662)
How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of...Lasīt vairāk
Michael H Frisch, Susan Porter Benson, Daniel J Walkowitz, Jonathan Prude, Sean Wilentz, Christine Stansell, Leon Fink, Francis G. Couvares, Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, Kenneth Fones-Wolf...
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054624)
At the time of its original publication, Working-Class America represented the new labor history par excellence. A roster of noteworthy scholars in the field contribute original essays written during a pivotal time in the nations history and within...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054457)
Socialist women faced the often thorny dilemma of fitting their concern with womens rights into their commitment to socialism. Mari Jo Buhle examines womens efforts to agitate for suffrage, sexual and economic emancipation, and other issues and the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054327)
Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitati...Lasīt vairāk
Luķs LM Aguiar, Yanick Noiseux, Joseph A. McCartin, Luķs LM Aguiar, Adrienne E Eaton, Janice Fine, Euan Gibb, Laurence Hamel-Roy, Tashlin Lakhani, Joseph A. McCartin...
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Jan-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252053757)
Chartered in 1921, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a worldwide organization that represents more than two million workers in occupations from healthcare and government service to custodians and taxi drivers. Women form more than h...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Jan-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252053887)
At the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jan-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252053795)
Winner of a Silver Medal from the Independent Publisher Book AwardsWon Honorable Mention for 2023 ILHA Book of the Year (International Labor History Association)The iconic leader of one of America s most powerful unions, Harry Bridges put an indelibl...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252053771)
Winner of the 2022 Philip Taft Labor History Book PrizeOften cast as villains in the Northwests environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Nov-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252053665)
The decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first centurys potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by la...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Oct-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054617)
From the depression of the 1890s through World War I, construction tradesman held an important place in San Franciscos economic, political, and social life. Michael Kazins award-winning study delves into how the citys Building Trades Council (BTC)...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Oct-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054464)
Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor-the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century-Workingmens Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potentia...Lasīt vairāk
Eric Arnesen, Kathryn J Oberdeck, Julie Greene, Bruce Laurie, Reeve Huston, Bruce Laurie, Shelton Stromquist, Cecelia Bucki, Tera W. Hunter, Gunther Peck...
Sērija : Working Class in American History
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Oct-2022, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252054709)
Is class outmoded as a basis for understanding labor history? This collection emphatically answers, "e;No!"e; These thirteen essays delve into subjects like migrant labor, religion, ethnicity, agricultural history, and gender. Written by form...Lasīt vairāk
