Laboured Protest

Author : Oliver Ayers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429673191
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laboured Protest written by Oliver Ayers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more interesting, movement than previously thought.

Author : Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520250974
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against the Law written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive interviews in Chinese textile, apparel, machinery, and household appliance factories, Against the Law dissects the world of Chinese workers today and finds a rising tide of labor unrest mostly hidden from the world's attention. Intense working-class agitation is being spurred by massive unemployment of Mao's socialist proletariat in the northern rustbelt and by the exploitation of millions of young workers in the southern sunbelt. Providing a broad comparative political and economic analysis of the vast mosaic of this labor struggle together with unprecedented fine-grained ethnographic detail, the book portrays the multi-faceted humanity of the Chinese working class as their stories unfold in bankrupt state factories and global sweatshops, in crowded dormitories and remote villages, at heroic moments of street protests as well as in quiet disenchantment with the corrupt officialdom and the fledgling legal system.

Author : DICK. GEARY
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032036809
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Labour Protest 1848-1939 written by DICK. GEARY and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1981, examines the issues inspiring working-class movements after 1848 in Europe. It concentrates on the attitudes of the ordinary working men, rather than the ideologies and the leaders, and considers the many different forms and manifestations of their grievances and means of expression.

Author : Dick Geary
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000424235
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Labour Protest 1848–1939 written by Dick Geary and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1981, examines the issues inspiring working-class movements after 1848 in France, Germany and Britain, with some consideration also of Austria, Italy, Spain and Russia. It concentrates on the attitudes of the ordinary working men, rather than the ideologies and the leaders, and considers the many different forms and manifestations of their grievances and means of expression. What emerges is the complexity of the connection between economic circumstances and protest, and the existence of wide divergences of behaviour amongst the European working class.

Author : David Kogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448217342
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle for the Labour Party written by David Kogan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle for the Labour Party was first published in 1981 and was referenced by Tony Benn in his 1980-1990 diaries as 'a valuable guide to the developments within the Labour party at this time'. This 1982 updated edition is an essential resource for all who are interested in understanding the history of the Labour Party from 1973-1982. The continuing power struggle within the Labour Party had raged for decades and had drastic effects on its popularity and credibility. At the 1982 party conference, the division between the Left and Right sharpened. Tony Benn's attempts to get into the shadow cabinet, the defection of members to the SDP, the Militant inquiry and the Tatchell affair all added to this general disenchantment. This 1982 edition accurately describes how these events developed. There are two additional chapters which deal with the activities of New Left groups in London boroughs, and with the fightback of the Right between the two party conferences. Interviews with major figures, including Shirley Williams and Roy Grantham, shed light on the events of the time. There is also more detailed insight into the GLC and events within London. For everyone interested or involved in the history of British politics, The Battle for the Labour Party provides an insightful and thought-provoking account of a fascinating piece of history.

Author : Belinda Bozzoli
Publisher : Raven Press (South Africa)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Labour, Townships, and Protest written by Belinda Bozzoli and published by Raven Press (South Africa). This book was released on 1979 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph comprising a collection of conference papers on historical aspects of urban area race relations and social class struggle, black literature, and labour movement of miners in witwatersrand, South Africa r - examines squatter movements in johannesburg, racial segregation in sophiatown, culture in terms of poetry and performer entertainment, migration of miners between corwall and the transvaal, the black mineworkers' strike of 1920, etc. References. Conference held in johannesburg 1978 feb.

Author : Laura Levine Frader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasants and Protest written by Laura Levine Frader and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-04-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twentieth-century France, the great vinegrowers' revolt of 1907, shook the entire south with massive demonstrations. In this study, Laura Levine Frader explains how left-wing politics and labor radicalism in the Aude emerged from the economic and social transformation of rural society between 1850 and 1914. She describes the formation of an agricultural wage-earning class, and discusses how socialism and a revolutionary syndicalist labor movement together forged working-class identity. Frader's focus on the making of the rural proletariat takes the study of class formation out of the towns and cities and into the countryside. Frader emphasizes the complexity of social structure and political life in the Aude, describing the interaction of productive relations, the gender division of labor, community solidarities, and class alliances. Her analysis raises questions about the applicability of an urban, industrial model of class formation to rural society. This study will be of interest to French social historians, agricultural historians, and those interested in the relationship between capitalism, class formation, and labor militancy.

Author : Alice Mattoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317098773
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Practices and Protest Politics written by Alice Mattoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise, struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential political subjects? "Media Practices and Protest Politics; How Precarious Workers Mobilise" reveals the process by which individuals at the margins of the labour market and excluded from the welfare state communicate and struggle outside the realm of institutional politics to gain recognition in the political sphere. In this important and thought provoking work Alice Mattoni suggests an all-encompassing approach to understanding grassroots political communication in contemporary societies. Using original examples from precarious workers mobilizations in Italy she explores a range of activist media practices and compares different categories of media technologies, organizations and outlets from the printed press to web application and from mainstream to alternative media. Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and technologies and considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and alternative media represent protests. Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable contribution to the field of political communication and social movement studies.

Author : Dick Geary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Labour Protest 1848-1939 written by Dick Geary and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angel Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134467982
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Barcelona written by Angel Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of Europe's great industrial and revolutionary centres Barcelona has been in need of a detailed social and cultural history, yet there is actually a paucity of detailed research. This book redresses the balance. Focusing on the entire twentieth century, it allows for the emergence of long-term trends, and deals with both classic and newer themes of labour history. This novel and authoritative work will interest not only those working on Spain, but all scholars and students of comparative history.