Picket Line

Author : Christopher D. Cantwell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209817X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pew and the Picket Line written by Christopher D. Cantwell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan, Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.

Author : Tom McCarty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781678643348
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picket Line written by Tom McCarty and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 9, 2000, the largest white-collar strike in the private sector in U.S. labor history was called against the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. The engineers and technicians represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace walked away from good-paying jobs for forty days and forty nights. This book is a first-person narrative of the experiences of that strike. The strike was unprecedented in the union's history. The local media, Boeing management and the workers themselves had little confidence that this strike would last more than a few days.This narrative explores the motivation and the issues that compelled these workers to give up the security of a regular paycheck and face the uncertainty of a prolonged labor strike. This strike was unique in many ways. This strike grew from the dissatisfaction with the lack of respect in management's treatment of engineering and technical employees.Tom is an Electrical Engineer who spent 41 years at the Boeing Company. Shortly after graduating from Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, he accepted a job with the Boeing. Tom is a former President of SPEEA, the union which represents the Engineers, Technicians and Training Pilots in the Pacific Northwest.

Author : Mary Triece
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056876
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Picket Line written by Mary Triece and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonnie Ritter Book Award, National Communication Association's Feminist and Women Studies Division, 2008. On the Picket Line uncovers the voices of working-class women, particularly those active in the Communist Party, U.S.A., in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers. Combining critical analysis, Marxist and feminist theory, and labor history, Mary E. Triece analyzes the protest tactics employed by working class women to challenge dominant ideologies surrounding domesticity. She details the rhetorical strategies used by women to argue for their rights as workers in the paid labor force and as caregivers in the home. Their overtly coercive tactics included numerous sit-ins, strikes, and boycotts that won tangible gains for working poor and unemployed women. The book also gives voice to influential figures in the 1930s labor movement (many of whom were members of the Communist Party, U.S.A.), such as Ella Reeve Bloor, Margaret Cowl, Anna Damon, Ann Burlak, and Grace Hutchins. Triece ultimately argues that these confrontational protest tactics of the 1930s remain relevant in today’s fights for more humane workplaces and better living conditions.

Author : Albert Talmon Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yazoo written by Albert Talmon Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 0929087518
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death on the Picket Line written by and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tansy E. Hoskins
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474609872
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foot Work written by Tansy E. Hoskins and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating and eye-opening' OWEN JONES DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM? In 2019, 66.6 million pairs of shoes were manufactured across the world every single day. They have never been cheaper to buy, and we have never been more convinced that we need to buy them. Yet their cost to the planet has never been greater. In this urgent, passionately argued book, Tansy E. Hoskins opens our eyes to the dark origins of the shoes on our feet. Taking us deep into the heart of an industry that is exploiting workers and deceiving consumers, we begin to understand that if we don't act fast, this humble household object will take us to the point of no return.

Author : Breena Wiederhoeft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983661214
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picket Line written by Breena Wiederhoeft and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadows of towering Redwoods, battle lines are drawn. Here we meet Beatrice, a young Midwestern woman living in Northern California, attempting to sooth her restless cravings for belonging. Caught in the mounting battle between environmental protesters and an unpopular but powerful developer, Beatrice must balance her loyalty to well-meaning locals on one side of the controversy, and her growing concern for the threatened Redwoods. It is in this precarious in-between state that Breena Wiederhoeft's debut graphic novel sets up camp, and its characters take their stand.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act written by United States. National Labor Relations Board. Office of the General Counsel and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Mehring Books
ISBN 13 : 0929087518
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death on the Picket Line written by and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. Baker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137358068
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Police, Picket-Lines and Fatalities written by D. Baker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police, Picket-lines and Fatalities explores public protests and their management by the police, focusing on the fatalities of strikers at the hands of police and outlining practices towards preventing such tragedies. Uniquely examining the only three worker fatalities in Australian industrial history due to police use of deadly force, this book analyses the frenzied policing involvement that led to the deaths; the lack of accountability of police leadership and individual actions; government and press partisanship; and the deficiencies in criminal justice administration. Baker ultimately questions: were the police merely performing their duty by enforcing the law or were they agents complicit in reckless violence and collusion? With analysis of the recent police shooting of 34 platinum miners at Marikana, South Africa in 2012, Baker looks at the lessons of these case-studies, both past and contemporary, to provide specific applications for developing best practice of police and union peace-keeping protocols during industrial protests and the wider issues pertinent to public order policing of demonstrations in general.