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Labor (2009) 6 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 March 2009
...Joseph A. McCartin © 2009 by Labor and Working-Class History Association 2009 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The Force of Faith: An Introduction to the
Labor and Religion Special Issue
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Activists placed “Worthy Wage dolls” in state capitol buildings across the ...
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in Worthy Wages in the Emerald City: Worker- and Director-Led Childcare Movements in Seattle, 1984–2006
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Published: 01 May 2024
Figure 5. Activists placed “Worthy Wage dolls” in state capitol buildings across the country to inform legislators about issues in the childcare field. Photo courtesy of Reuther Archive, Center for the Child Care Workforce Records, box 44, folder 37.
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Response to Woody Holton's “Primitive Accumulation”
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Labor (2009) 6 (3): 49–53.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Rosemarie Zagarri Holton's maintains that in explaining the origins of the U.S. Constitution historians have emphasized the concerns expressed by elites while overlooking the issues that most troubled large numbers of “ordinary” Americans. The strength of the argument is that Holton gives voice...
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Labor (2015) 12 (1-2): 3–12.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Susan Levine; Steve Striffler This special issue of Labor challenges historians to think about food and work in ways that not only include the production of food but also explore the connections between the work of food, the place of food in working-class life, and the very nature and trajectory...
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Race, Respect, and Authority in Contemporary Brazil: Interpreting the Stories of Sugarcane Workers
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Labor (2011) 8 (2): 123–146.
Published: 01 May 2011
... to such subtle issues as slavery's legacies. The article approaches these issues in three sections: the first charts the two leaders' lives in the context of the cane zone's history; the second addresses race and respect; and the third discusses violence, voice, and authority. Labor and Working-Class History...
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E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class : Assessments After a Half Century
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Labor (2013) 10 (3): 27–29.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Eric Arnesen This issue's Bookmark section revisits E. P. Thompson's path-breaking The Making of the English Working Class upon its fiftieth anniversary. Their commentaries, introduced by Eric Arnesen, signal a variety of appreciations and critical reevaluations of the original text...
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Bionic Ballplayers: Risk, Profit, and the Body as Commodity, 1964 – 2007
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Labor (2014) 11 (1): 47–75.
Published: 01 March 2014
... their predecessors. By attacking individual ballplayers' morality, commentators have obscured the more salient issue: baseball is representative of the fact that Americans increasingly live in an age of biotechnology in which bodily modification for profit has become the norm and often an unstated job requirement...
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The Politics of Justice: Rethinking Brazil's Corporatist Labor Movement
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Labor (2016) 13 (2): 11–31.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... The study is based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of collective grievance procedures handled by the Regional Labor Council of São Paulo State. While observing the performance of the labor courts in regard to labor relations, it focuses primarily on three issues: compulsory arbitration, the right...
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Learning from Occupy: A DC Roundtable
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Labor (2012) 9 (3): 13–24.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Paul Adler; James Ploeser; Vasudha Desikan; Heather Booth; Dorian Warren This issue's Contemporary Affairs section is a roundtable discussion of the Occupy Wall Street movement, held in Washington, DC, in December 2011. Moderated by historian-activist Paul Adler, the discussion combines reflections...
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On the Importance of Affirmative Action: Labor Liberals and the Recasting of “Contract Unionism”
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Labor (2012) 9 (2): 47–72.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Dennis Deslippe This issue's Up For Debate features Dennis Deslippe's revisionist argument about labor's response to affirmative action. Contrary both to those scholars who have fixed the unions as a primary obstacle to affirmative action plans pushed by civil rights organizations and public...
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The Other Side of the Radar: PATCO and the Airlines
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Labor (2012) 9 (4): 29–32.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Liesl Orenic This issue's Bookmark section focuses on Joseph A. McCartin's Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America . While drawing raves for the power of its narrative and depth of research, McCartin's work also attracts questions...
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Strange Bedfellows: The Politics and Pathologies of Immigration Reform
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Labor (2008) 5 (2): 39–60.
Published: 01 May 2008
...Daniel J. Tichenor The practical and ethical challenges posed by unauthorized immigration in the United States have a long history. In this article, which serves as the basis of discussion in this issue's Up for Debate section, Daniel Tichenor demonstrates how the immigration debate defies...
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Freedom, Ideology, and White Supremacy: A Comment on Melvin Patrick Ely's Israel on the Appomattox
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Labor (2009) 6 (2): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2009
... some form of political sovereignty (republican or popular), whereas for formerly enslaved African Americans freedom is limited to freedom from enslavement. Finally, Capers takes issue with Ely's interpretation of the impact of the capriciousness of white supremacy, arguing that such capriciousness...
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Comments on Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War , by Melvin Patrick Ely
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Labor (2009) 6 (2): 31–32.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Jane Dailey Jane Dailey's commentary raises methodological issues at play in Ely's book but also of concern to the wider world of historical writing. Ely focuses on human behavior in antebellum Virginia rather than on human thought or ideology. This kind of division between behavior and thought...
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Recobrando Recovering The Struggle against Racial Discrimination : The Journey of the Pablo O'higgins Mural for the Seattle Ship Scalers Union
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Labor (2011) 8 (4): 7–40.
Published: 01 December 2011
... various accusations of bias in the early 1970s, the UW administration responded to activists on this issue. The process of recobrando , or recovering, the mural revealed a “struggle against discrimination” both rooted in and different from the struggles of the past, and dramatically shaped...
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Introduction
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Labor (2011) 8 (4): 41–42.
Published: 01 December 2011
...Eric Arnesen In this issue's Up for Debate, Tony Judt's posthumous book, Ill Fares the Land , serves as a provocative vehicle to discuss the simultaneous rise of neoliberalism, growing inequality, and collapse of the Euro-American Left across recent decades. In the spirit of Judt's own unapologetic...
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The Chapter Left Untold: Labor Historians and the Problem of Union Corruption
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Labor (2011) 8 (2): 37–57.
Published: 01 May 2011
...David Witwer This issue's Up for Debate section features a lively exchange of responses by four scholars to David Witwer on the subject of labor historians and the problem of union corruption. Highlighting an extended but uneven literature on the subject stretching back to Commons-School...
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Labor Journalism Today: Three Interviews
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Labor (2018) 15 (1): 81–91.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Max Fraser; Steven Greenhouse; Jane Slaughter; Sarah Jaffe In three separate interviews, special issue coeditor Max Fraser discusses the past, present, and future of labor journalism with three of today’s most widely read labor writers: Steven Greenhouse, formerly of the New York Times ; Labor...
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The Work: Dealing and Violence in the War on Drugs Era
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Labor (2018) 15 (2): 77–110.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., frenzied drug trade. Through an examination of the experiences of dealers, the essay shows how their search for rewarding work interacted with the contextual issues of poverty, racial segregation, deindustrialization, and government policy to account for a substantial amount of mayhem in the war on drugs...
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News and Views of the Postal Service: Trezzvant W. Anderson and Black Labor Journalism in the New Deal Era
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Labor (2018) 15 (1): 53–65.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Executive Order 8587, which ended the civil service employment application photograph requirements. Anderson’s advocacy journalism, centered upon union action and workplace justice, illustrates how the black press embraced employment issues and made them central to African American aspirations for racial...
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