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Books on: american worker history

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In Labor's Cause: Main Themes on the History of the American Worker

Book by David Brody; Oxford University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Labor movement--United States--History, Labor unions--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of all manufacturing workers were on piecework Sanford...Bureaucracy: Managers, Workers, and the Transformation of Work in American Industry, 1900-1945...A Review Essay", History Workshop Journal 5 Autumn...the Rouge: A Cycle of Workers Control", in Charles...Lichtenstein, "Auto Worker Militancy and the Structure...
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American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement

Book by Anne Klejment, Nancy L. Roberts; Praeger, 1996

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Catholic Church--United States--History--20th Century, Catholic Worker Movement, Day, Dorothy--1897-1980, Pacifism--Religious Aspects--Catholic Church--History Of Doctrines--20th Century, United States--Church History--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...only a handful of Americans were seriously engaged...surpass the Catholic Worker in size and in the...Day and the Catholic Workers showed, as few others...The Peace Reform in American History (Bloomington, Ind...on Record, Catholic Worker, September 1945...Rebels Against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941...
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Look for the Union Label: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

Book by Gus Tyler; M. E. Sharpe, 1995

Subjects:

Clothing Workers--Labor Unions--United States--History, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union--History, Women Clothing Workers--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history." Yet even as Turner bade the old frontier farewell, he saw new frontiers-- overseas. America, he advised...
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Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939

Book by Camille Guerin-Gonzales; Rutgers University Press, 1994

Subjects:

California--Emigration And Immigration--History--20th Century, Mexican American Agricultural Laborers, Mexican American Agricultural Laborers--California--History--20th Century, Mexico--Emigration And Immigration--History--20th Century, Repatriation--Mexico--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Jim Crow South," Journal of American History 80 , no. 1 June 1993 , 75...of working-class African-Americans and their political struggle...understanding the force of the American Dream in American thought. Edward Said , Orientalism...
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Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers, and the Politics of Restructuring

Book by John P. Tuman, John T. Morris; M. E. Sharpe, 1998

Subjects:

Automobile Industry And Trade--Latin America, Automobile Industry Workers--Labor Unions--Latin America, Automobile Industry Workers--Latin America, Industrial Relations--Latin America

Collections: Entire Library

...the many that impacted workers: a reduction in wages, and the loss of worker autonomy. The reduction...a campaign to break worker resistance to changes...Volkswagen plant had a long history of worker combativeness and union...conditions for auto workers is the degree of union...

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Journal Articles on: american worker history

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Projecting Whiteness: Race and the Unconscious in the History of 19th-century American Workers

Journal article by Frank Towers; Journal of American Culture, Vol. 21, 1998

Subjects:

Blue collar workers, History, Race, Society, Whites

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the New Labor History also point...American labor history with a heightened...mastery, white workers constructed...life the white worker hated and longed...that infused American political and...Independence to all Americans, and it has...and female workers. This research...disciplines. History offers the...application to American culture. For...working-class Americans because those...
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To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Journal article by Lawrence Richards; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, To Advance Their Opportunities: Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Policies toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil...Federal Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to...branch policies toward African American workers from the start of...and to what extent African American employment in the higher...opportunities for African Americans, but for which there was...
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Rascals on the Antebellum Mississippi: African American Steamboat Workers and the St. Louis Hanging of 1841

Journal article by Thomas C. Buchanan; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2001

Subjects:

African Americans--Identity, Freedmen--Social aspects, Mississippi--Race relations, Race discrimination--History, River life--Social aspects, Slaves--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Journal of American History 76 (March 1990...Traditions of Afro-Americans (New York, 1989...Resistance and Social History," Journal of Social History 124 (Spring 1991...in which African Americans used the Mississippi...slave trade, river workers were a beacon of...Mississippi: African-American Steamboat Workers...
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Social Workers in the Muskeljudentum: "Hadassah Ladies," "Manly Men" and the Significance of Gender in the American Zionist Movement, 1912-1928

Journal article by Mary Mccune; American Jewish History, 1998

Subjects:

American Jews--Social aspects, Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America--Social aspects, Jewish women--Social aspects, Jews, American--Social aspects, Sex role--History, Sex roles--History, Women, Jewish--Social aspects, Zionism--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the Vocabulary of Womens History," Journal of American History 6 (December 1989...Women, 1870-1930," American Jewish History 76 (March 1987): 311...Professional Identity: Social Workers in the 1920s," American Historical Review 95...
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A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

Journal article by Melissa R. Klapper; American Jewish History, Vol. 94, 2008

Subjects:

A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (Biography)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. by Melissa R. Klapper A...the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. By Karen Pastorello. Urbana...women, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) to the exclusion of the...

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Magazine Articles on: american worker history

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Workers' Rights Are Human Rights!

Magazine article; American Teacher, Vol. 90, February 2006

Subjects:

American history, Government employees, Human rights, Labor unions, Municipal employees, Personnel policies, Workers, Working conditions

Collections: Education, History, Entire Library

...crowd, "most Americans would be shocked...out what nonunion workers go through trying...and that union workers often cant get...said the anti-worker tone set by the...president of the American Federation of State...as well as hotel workers, home child care...introduced child care worker Lourdes Lebron...York University history graduate assistant...
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Before Braverman: Harry Frankel and the American Workers' Movement

Magazine article by Bryan Palmer; Monthly Review, Vol. 50, January 1999

Subjects:

Braverman, Harry--Criticism and interpretation, Socialist Workers Party--History

Collections: Entire Library

...Frankel and the American Workers Movement. by...fields such as history, sociology...Forces in the American Revolution...Jackson Period in American History, "7 (December...Socialist Workers Party, International...
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Afl-cio Reaches out to Young Workers

Magazine article; American Teacher, Vol. 95, December 2010

Subjects:

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, Younger workers

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...new law ensuring that labor history is taught in public schools...an annual meeting for young workers; * Establish a national advisory...models of representation for workers in nontraditional jobs...tool kit for creating young worker groups; * Develop a template...webinars; * Mobilize young workers; and * Coordinate with similar...
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"A Plucky Thing to Do": Jane Addams Befriends the Workers

Magazine article by Louise W. Knight; Humanities, Vol. 26, November 2005

Subjects:

Addams, Jane, American history, Children & youth, Industrial development, Labor disputes, Labor unions, Prosperity, Workers, Working conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...She watched exhausted workers attending Hull-House events...sought out a woman bindery worker, Mary Kenney, as someone...cooperate. Kenney was not just a worker but a union organizer for...conditions for female wage workers in the city by using investigations...prevailing sentiment of cultivated Americans is at the present juncture...
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A New Union Contract: While Public-Sector Unions Fight for Survival, Bob King Proposes to Rebuild the United Auto Workers for a New, and More Vexing, Century

Magazine article by Jim Grossfeld; The American Prospect, Vol. 22, May 2011

Subjects:

King, Bob--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Labor activists--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Labor leaders--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, United Automobile Workers--Officials and employees

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...Rebuild the United Auto Workers for a New, and More...redefine the role that American unions play in the economy...and auto-industry history, is well aware, the...with it, the rest of American labor, was compelled...most powerful union in American history--the dominant...

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Newspaper Articles on: american worker history

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Tanks for Nothing: American Victory Hits North Workers; Hundreds of Jobs Set to Go at Factory

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 23, 2010

Subjects:

Aerospace industry, BAE SYSTEMS PLC, Defense industry, Lockheed Martin Corp., United Kingdom. Army, Workers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tanks for Nothing: American Victory Hits North Workers; Hundreds of Jobs...yesterday when an American company won a huge...The under-threat workers were last night promised...blow given the long history of tank manufacturing...
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A Crushing Burden on Blacks; Joblessness Can Be Traced to Competition from Foreign Workers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), March 23, 2010

Subjects:

African Americans, Alien labor, Automotive safety systems, Foreign labor, Unemployment, Workers

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Competition from Foreign Workers. Byline: Frank...filled by black Americans, especially the...responsibilities to American workers and resume...nothing for black Americans except more competition...disproportionately affects black Americans. What they and...make sure that American workers - regardless...in our nations history - outpaced the...
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Recommendations for the Next Stimulus; A Focus on the American Worker

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 2, 2009

Subjects:

United States economic conditions

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...on the American Worker. Byline: John...periods in the history of the United States...four months - many American workers began 2009 with...renewed focus on American workers, the backbone...living for all Americans. We need to act...training so American workers can develop the...federal dislocated-worker training programs...
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'The Sweatshop Was My Second Home'; FIRSTPERSON; from the Age of Five, Jean Kwok Worked in an American Clothing Factory after School, before Heading Home to a Freezing, Cockroach-Infested Flat. Here She Explains How, as a Gifted Student, She Was One of the Few Sweatshop Workers to Escape the Poverty Trap

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 8, 2010

Subjects:

Clothing industry--Personal narratives, Students--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Jean Kwok Worked in an American Clothing Factory after...of the Few Sweatshop Workers to Escape the Poverty...accounts: one in which the workers appeared to be earning...honours in English and American literature. It was...highest scores in the history of the university...
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'The Sweatshop Was My Second Home '; FIRSTPERSON; from the Age of Five, Jean Kwok Worked in an American Clothing Factory after School, before Heading Home to a Freezing, Cockroach-Infested Flat. Here She Explains How, as a Gifted Student, She Was One of the Few Sweatshop Workers to Escape the Poverty Trap

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 7, 2010

Subjects:

Clothing industry--Personal narratives

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Jean Kwok Worked in an American Clothing Factory after...of the Few Sweatshop Workers to Escape the Poverty...accounts: one in which the workers appeared to be earning...honours in English and American literature. It was...highest scores in the history of the university...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: american worker history

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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...president in the AFL-CIOs history. In 2005, heads of...unionization of unrepresented workers. The SEIU, Teamsters...Food and Commercial Workers, Laborers International...Industrialism and the American Worker (1975); U.S. Dept. of Labor, A History of the American Worker...
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American Revolution

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...is also called the American War of Independence...barb remained to wound American feelings. Colonial...merchant and farmer, worker and sailor. Committees...British and Native Americans in upper New York...had been reached in American fortunes. Bitter complaints...in all U.S. naval history, but their exploits...Howard Fast. Older histories, still read for their...
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Union, Labor

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Fraser, A History of British Trade...1999); for American unions, see J. R. Commons, History of Labor in the...in America: A History (5th ed. 1993...H. Zieger, American Workers, American Unions...the American Worker, 1865 1920...Wobblies, Craft Workers, and the Making...
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Hart, Albert Bushnell

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...BUSHNELL 1854 1943, American historian, b. Clarksville...He began teaching history at Harvard in 1883...Hart was a prodigious worker who was responsible...contributed to the "American Nation" series (28...1904 18) and Epochs of American History (4 vol...
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Eggleston, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

EGGLESTON, EDWARD 1837 1902, American author, Methodist clergyman...1870 he was a Bible agent, a farm worker, a circuit rider in Minnesota...completed two volumes of his planned history of American life, The Beginners of a Nation...

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