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Mammy at MacClenny, Jezebel in Jacksonville: Southern Fever Nursing in History and Memory
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Labor (2012) 9 (2): 95–112.
Published: 01 May 2012
... practice to the legacy of enslaved women's health work. As a result, Clara Barton, founder and president of the American Red Cross, made the figure of the faithful female slave central to the public commemoration of Red Cross nursing in 1888. Decades later, champions of the nursing professionalism movement...
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Shouting Abuse, Harmless Jolly, and Promiscuous Flattery: Considering the Contours of Sexual Harassment at Macy's Department Store, 1910–1915
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Labor (2022) 19 (1): 52–73.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Mara Keire Abstract As the white slavery scare peaked in the United States in the early 1910s, department stores consistently figured among the most menacing sites mentioned by muckrakers for corrupting women’s morals. Worried about the reputation of departments stores in general and Macy’s...
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“Excavating Labor History”: Exploring Class Struggle through Archaeology and Material Culture
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Labor (2020) 17 (1): 25–43.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., on the site of an immigrant shantytown that witnessed a notorious labor massacre, represent another example of the literal and figurative excavation of labor and working-class history. Performed in collaboration local stakeholders, the project used the tools of archaeology and material culture to link...
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Marshall's Principle: A Former Labor Secretary Looks Back (and Ahead)
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Labor (2014) 11 (4): 91–107.
Published: 01 December 2014
... secretary of labor to President Jimmy Carter (1977–81). An influential figure in the field of labor economics and the economics of discrimination, Marshall joined the Carter administration at a pivotal moment in postwar American history. In this interview, he reflects on his time as secretary of labor, his...
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Union Busting at the Baseball Hall of Fame: The Blacklisting of Union Leader Marvin Miller
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Labor (2024) 21 (2): 94–120.
Published: 01 May 2024
... figures in baseball history, was excluded for so many years by the corporate‐backed plutocracy that runs the sport. The Hall of Fame's board of directors stacked the committees responsible for voting on candidates with owners and executives who despised Miller and the players union. It also reveals how...
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Labor (2025) 22 (1): 11–23.
Published: 01 March 2025
...Kathy M. Newman; Joseph Entin; Patricia Hills FIGURE 1. Philip Tipperman, Labor Strike , 1939. Courtesy of Brooklyn College. A modernist painting of a man holding a sign in front of a picket line. FIGURE 2. Philip Tipperman, Labor Unity , 1939. Courtesy of Brooklyn College...
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“Bread and Roses”: The Evolution of a Song, Labor Songbooks, and Union Culture
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Labor (2020) 17 (2): 81–100.
Published: 01 May 2020
... or chanting in protest) against a backdrop of smokestacks and other industrial iconography (see figure 1 ). Figure 1 Rebel Song Book , Rand School Press, 1935. Figure 1. Rebel Song Book, Rand School Press, 1935. The 1930s also saw the emergence of the first songbooks directly sponsored...
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“Don't Be a Jerk”: Jewish Labor Organizations, Popular Art, and Anti-prejudice Education following World War II
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Labor (2022) 19 (2): 71–98.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and Working-Class History Association 2022 racism anti-Semitism unions cartoons comics Jewish labor organizations Early in 1946, the Jewish Labor Committee (JLC), a New York–based organization with roots in both labor and Jewish circles, unveiled a poster titled Don't Be a Jerk! ( figure 1...
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Read from the Left: Review of Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
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Labor (2008) 5 (3): 9–12.
Published: 01 September 2008
... pro-
cess. One panel from Kinney’s piece on the UCWA (figure 1) shows two comix artists
from the early 1970s. The panel manages to capture visually the alcohol-fueled distem-
per of one artist and the chic radical posturing of another (Kinney himself These
states...
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The Paradox of Automation: QWERTY and the Neuter Keyboard
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Labor (2021) 18 (4): 9–39.
Published: 01 December 2021
... keyboard held too many negative associations for middle managers, perhaps it was time for a wholly new kind of keyboard. One innovation in this direction came in the form of the charming and uncanny Microwriter ( figures 1–3 ), an 8-bit portable word processor that was also a chording keyboard...
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I Hear You Knockin’. . . . But You Can’t Come In
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Labor (2018) 15 (3): 95–99.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... After that, the number of union elections, let alone actual victories, began a long, slow slide into terminal decline. In 1964 1.28 percent of production workers (it is unclear to me if this figure, in fact, includes retail, service, etc.) voted in NLRB elections—the postwar peak came in 1953, when...
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Exhibit Review: The UAW and the Release of Mandela
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Labor (2009) 6 (4): 11–17.
Published: 01 December 2009
... Association
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Figure 1. Article from the UAW’s
Solidarity, 28, no. 1 (1985): 9.
Courtesy Walter P. Reuther
Library, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan
the 1980s. In June 1990 Nelson Mandela recognized the UAW’s...
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Betting on New Forms of Worker Organization
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Labor (2010) 7 (3): 17–23.
Published: 01 September 2010
... again the demise
of labor.
Rather, Labor editors have asked first for reflection on the centrality of labor
law reform in explaining the shifting fortunes of the U.S. labor movement. These
fortunes, as measured by overall union membership figures, include the rise of orga-
nized labor from...
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“The Interest Is in What You Can Show People, What You Can Reveal”: Retrospective on the Photography of Chris Killip
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Labor (2024) 21 (2): 128–148.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Jubilee in 1977 and some of the people at a celebration of the wedding of Charles and Diana in 1981. Figure 1. Helen and Her Hula-Hoop, Seacoal Camp . Lynemouth, Northumberland. 1984. Figure 1. Helen and Her Hula-Hoop, Seacoal Camp. Lynemouth, Northumberland. 1984. Hope is elusive...
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The Secret to Success
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Labor (2014) 11 (3): 97–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and an activist. Jenny is here mainly as
Marx’s youthful love interest and as a wife beset by the family’s money problems,
present when Sperber mentions that the family moves, adds or loses a child, or faces
severe debt. Jenny is a shadowy figure who emerges only occasionally, save for Sper-
ber’s more...
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Response to Feurer, Abbott, Levine, Lichtenstein, and Pearson
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Labor (2014) 11 (3): 101–106.
Published: 01 September 2014
... Lichtenstein has a somewhat different take on the matter. He accepts
the idea that Marx was a backward-looking figure, fighting against the old regime
society of orders. However, Lichtenstein explains that this backward look is typical
of revolutionary movements and does...
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Another World Is Possible: A Comparative Perspective
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Labor (2021) 18 (3): 55–61.
Published: 01 September 2021
...—deploys the biographical method to unsettle the idea that Lula had always been a “charismatic” figure bent on fulfilling his destiny. Instead, he describes an ongoing dialectic between Lula and others—his family, fellow workers, other trade union leaders, leftist intellectuals, and, especially...
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A “Labor History” of Mass Incarceration
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Labor (2011) 8 (3): 5–14.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Lichtenstein
A quarter century ago, when I began researching a dissertation on convict labor in
the American South, I professed astonishment that the number of prison inmates in
the United States had reached a half million; by the time I finished my thesis, in 1990,
that figure had climbed another...
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The Revolutionary Marx
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Labor (2014) 11 (3): 93–95.
Published: 01 September 2014
... biography with little feeling that the
author has used this life of Marx as a way of attacking the multitude of Marxisms
in our own time. This is because Sperber makes a sharp distinction between Marx
as a nineteenth-century figure and those “Marxists” who define themselves as his
twentieth...
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Science as Routine: Work and Labor in the Bureau of Science at Manila
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Labor (2024) 21 (1): 60–78.
Published: 01 March 2024
... that were equally indispensable to scientific work. Figure 1. The Silk House, with two Filipino routine workers: a male and female silk attendant. Figure 1. The Silk House, with two Filipino routine workers: a male and female silk attendant. This article explores the labor history of science...
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