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Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

Book by Robert Rodgers Korstad; University of North Carolina Press, 2003

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Civil Rights Movements--Southern States--History--20th Century, Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, And Allied Workers Union Of America--History--20th Century, Tobacco Workers--Labor Unions--Southern States--History--20th Century

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the workers most cherished objective, a more...democratic potential of contractual rights. Reynolds had not given up its right to manage: it retained the exclusive...slowdowns, and sabotage, to uphold workers rights. This vision of workers control...
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Migrant Workers in International Human Rights Law: Their Protection in Countries of Employment

Book by Ryszard Cholewinski; Clarendon Press, 1997

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Alien Labor--Legal Status, Laws, Etc, Alien Labor--Legal Status, Laws, Etc--European Union Countries, Human Rights, Human Rights--European Union Countries

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...children of foreign migrant workers and nationals alike. 249 b Political rights Political rights are defined in Article 25 of the ICCPR as the right to take part in the conduct...public service, and the right to vote and to be elected...references to the first two rights. The International Labour...
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Workers' Rights

Book by Richard Worth; Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2008

Subjects:

Employee Rights--United States, Labor Laws And Legislation--United States, Labor Laws And Legislation--United States--History

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...for example, where many workers are unionized, management...meant trying to force unionized workers to accept cuts in their salaries...important issues regarding the rights of Americans as employees in...sumer marketplace, balancing workers rights against the rights of...
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American Women Civil Rights Activists: Biobibliographies of 68 Leaders, 1825-1992

Book by Gayle J. Hardy; McFarland, 1993

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Women Civil Rights Workers--United States--Bibliography, Women Civil Rights Workers--United States--Biography, Women Civil Rights Workers--United States--History

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...the United States 54 Citrus Workers Organizing Committee 43 civic...Civil Liberties bureau 64 civil rights 7 , 18 , 25 , 30 , 31 , 33...47 , 48 ; see also adoptee rights/adoption rights; African...rights; farmers rights/farm workers rights; Hispanic American...
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I Am a Man! Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement

Book by Steve Estes; University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Subjects:

African American Civil Rights Workers--Attitudes--History--20th Century, African American Men--Attitudes--History--20th Century, African Americans--Civil Rights--History--20th Century, Civil Rights Movements--United States--History--20th Century, Masculinity--Political Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Racism--United States--History--20th Century, Rhetoric--Political Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Sex Role--Political Aspects--United States--History--20th Century, Sexism--United States--History--20th Century, United States--Race Relations

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...assumptions about work and workers rights.3 The racial composition...advancement. Black sanitation workers in Memphis earned so little...ancient equipment used by black workers. Until the public works commissioner...packers in the mid- 1960s, workers had to haul huge garbage cans...then, remembers sanitation worker Taylor Rogers, everybody...

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Journal Articles on: workers rights

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From Rights to Claims: the Role of Civil Society in Making Rights Real for Vulnerable Workers

Journal article by Shannon Gleeson; Law & Society Review, Vol. 43, 2009

Subjects:

Civil rights movement, Data collection, Labor standards, Labor unions, Public policy, Qualitative research, Recessions, Social activism, Society, Union membership, Violations, Workers

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...VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964...and Immigrant Workers Defining Worker Legal Mobilization...VII of the Civil Rights Act, though claims...places with more worker-friendly policies...discriminate, just as workers in these places...coalitions. The worker center movement...vital for educating workers about their rights and available resources...
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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

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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

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...Policies toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. by Lawrence Richards...Policies Toward African American Workers from World War I to the Civil...policies toward African American workers from the start of World War...
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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II

Journal article by Monica Perales; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 76, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during...in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during...African American civil rights struggles (p. 96...Mexican and black workers at Texas Gulf Coast...
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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II

Journal article by Kevin Allen Leonard; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics During World War II (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World...Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World...When the war began, Mexican workers were heavily concentrated in...
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Dreaming a Common Dream, Living a Common Nightmare: Abuses and Rights of Immigrant Workers in the United States, the European Union, and the United Arab Emirates

Journal article by John Lahad; Houston Journal of International Law, Vol. 31, 2009

Subjects:

Alien labor--Laws, regulations and rules, Foreign labor--Laws, regulations and rules, Freedom of association--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Labor force--Laws, regulations and rules, Labor supply--Laws, regulations and rules

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...Human Rights of Migrant Workers: The Peoples Movement...2009) (listing the right of freedom of association as a human right). (277.) Smith...discussing how in Hoffman a worker was fired for attempting...283.) Human Rights Watch U.A.E. report...Protections in a Guest Worker Program, 28 BERKELEY...Human Rights of Migrant Workers: The Peoples Movement...

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Magazine Articles on: workers rights

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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

...Theyll do anything to prevent workers from organizing-without...of trade unionists, civil rights and religious leaders, elected...Rights, which recognized the right to join a union and bargain as a basic human right. Throughout the busy week...Boston, International Human Rights Day events highlighted the increasing assaults on worker rights by corporations and...
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Labor Fights for Rights: U.S. Workers Have Lost the Right to Organize. A New Effort Aims to Get It Back

Magazine article by David Moberg; The Nation, Vol. 277, September 15, 2003

Subjects:

AFL-CIO--Political activity, Employees--Civil rights, Labor Management Relations Act, Labor movement--Analysis, Labor movement--History, Labor movement--Planning, National Labor Relations Act, Point Blank Body Armor L.P.--Labor relations, Right to work (Labor unions)--Analysis, Right to work (Labor unions)--Laws, regulations and rules, Right to work laws, Safety equipment and supplies industry--Labor relations, Safety equipment industry--Labor relations, United States. National Labor Relations Board--Cases, Workers--Civil rights

Collections: History, Entire Library

...workplace--the right of workers to organize unions...collectively--a civil right as sacrosanct as voting...Connors attacks on voting rights in the 1960s. The...doctrinally committed to worker rights. When workers...for commitments to worker rights. Both the AFL-CIOs...International Human Rights Day, December 10, with right-to-organize demonstrations...abuses and defending workers who are trying to organize...
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Activists March for Strawberry Workers Rights

Magazine article by Lisa Bennett-Haigney; National NOW Times, Vol. 30, Summer 1998

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Demonstrations & protests, Human rights, Labor unions, Swanton Berry Farms, United Farm Workers of America, Workers

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...March for Strawberry Workers Rights by Lisa Bennett-Haigney...Californias 20,000 strawberry workers. According to Dolores Huerta...of the UFW, most of these workers make $8,000 a year and...strawberries picked by the California workers, were Huerta, Gloria Steinem...Sandra Rocha, a strawberry worker who spoke at NOWs Women of...
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Aft Delegation Visits China to Support Workers' Rights, Democracy

Magazine article; American Teacher, Vol. 89, May/Jun 2005

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American Federation of Teachers, China, Delegation, Human rights, Labor unions, Occupational hazards, Workers

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...Visits China to Support Workers Rights, Democracy In what may be...result in the dismissal of workers complaints in court. The...factory, one of the sick workers, Yang Ren Ping, received...publicize the efforts of these workers to get adequate compensation...democracy in Hong Kong and worker rights in China. The AFT...
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Migrant Workers Forge Alliance to Protect Rights

Magazine article by Marites N. Sison; Anglican Journal, Vol. 134, May 2008

Subjects:

Bragas-Regalado, Connie, Foreign labor, Human rights, Meetings, Toronto Ontario Canada, Workers

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Forge Alliance to Protect Rights by Marites N. Sison Representatives...women who work as domestic workers in the Middle East The groups...about 5,000 migrant Filipino workers languishing in prison, 26...in prison are undocumented workers who flee from their employers...rape," she said. "When a worker leaves, the employer often...

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Newspaper Articles on: workers rights

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Region Is Fair to All People; HUMAN Rights Are Unlikely to Top Hadrian's Wall and Durham Cathedral in a List of Our Local Historic Treasures. but Regional Amnesty International Rep PETER SAGAR Believes Our Tradition of Fairness for Workers Should Be Recognised with Pride, and Particularly the Part Played by the Man Who Founded the Chronicle

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), September 5, 2009

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Human rights, Workers

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...Fair to All People; HUMAN Rights Are Unlikely to Top Hadrians...Our Tradition of Fairness for Workers Should Be Recognised with Pride...Massacre near Manchester. Workers rights remained very much an...a lecture on behalf of the Workers Educational Association at...
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Workers Have Right to Vote

Newspaper article; The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia), March 20, 2009

Subjects:

Civil rights movements, Suffrage, Voting rights, Workers

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

Workers Have Right to Vote. MINING...everyone has the democratic right to vote." Mr Pearce said...long and hard to protect their right to vote and Im not going to...driven management stop that right. "This is just dumb behaviour...lost all understanding of the rights of people."
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BUYING THE GIFT OF LIFE; as a Single Scots Social Worker Insists on Her Right to a Baby, Whatever the Cost, Have 'Human Rights' Gone Too Far?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 9, 2011

Subjects:

Human rights, Social workers

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

...as a Single Scots Social Worker Insists on Her Right to a Baby, Whatever the Cost, Have Human Rights Gone Too Far? Byline: by...year-old Edinburgh social workers life made complete by the...in danger of elevating the right to establish a family - enshrined...European Convention on Human Rights - above all other ethical...
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British Museum Caught Up in Human Rights Row; MIGRANTS AT RISK LONDON INSTITUTION URGED TO PROTECT WORKERS ON GULF PROJECT

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 24, 2009

Subjects:

British Museum, Human rights, Museums, Workers

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

...laws in place to protect the workers and is taking criticism seriously...average annual income of some workers home countries -- in order...and procedures related to worker welfare and makes misleading...facilities for construction workers in the Middle East". This...very strongly about human rights issues". Have your say at...Expertise: the British Museum, right, will earn millions by helping...
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Respect Health-Care Workers; Protect Personal Rights and Professional Livelihoods

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 17, 2008

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Workers--Laws, regulations and rules

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

...Respect Health-Care Workers; Protect Personal Rights and Professional Livelihoods...There is no more sacred right than the right of conscience...care workers have the right - under the law - to...conscience. But this right has recently come under...health-care workers rights under the law. Not once...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: workers rights

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Workers' Education

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

WORKERS EDUCATION see vocational education . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Workers' Compensation

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...some limit this coverage to workers engaged in dangerous occupations...S. Barth and H. Hunt, Workers Compensation and Work Related...A. Millus et al., Workers Compensation: Law and Insurance...Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Gay-Rights Movement

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...also became important gay-rights issues in the 1990s. A number...spouses; about one fifth of all workers are employed by these businesses...homosexual couples the same rights and protections that married...couples have the constitutional right to marry, and the state began...the state must extend equal rights to same-sex couples, the...
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Temporary Worker

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

TEMPORARY WORKER an employee, hired through...worked per week. Temporary workers (also called "contingency...as Microsoft used temporary workers for long-term, multiyear...benefits to many of these workers. See R. S. Belous, The...Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union to form the Union...larger group and, as United Workers, merge with the Service...Lorwin, The Womens Garment Workers (1924); B. Stolberg...Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.

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