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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 155–165.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to Mississippi. To be counted. And invited in. Originally published in Meridians vol. 3, no. 2, 2003. Copyright © 2003 Wesleyan University Press, now published by Duke University Press on behalf of Smith College 2003 labor unions union organizers African American women Mississippi Delta...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 September 2006
... went to work with a labor union-was it the International Laborers' Union? LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON: Yes. KATHLEEN BANKS NUTTER: Why then? How'd you get there? 198 KATHLEEN BANKS NUTTER AND LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON LINDA CHAVEZ-THOMPSON: My uncle, my daddy's brother, lived out in another section of the city...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): v–viii.
Published: 01 September 2006
... from Mexico, worked in the cotton fields ofLubbock, Texas, at the age often and subsequently rose to represent all Hispanic workers within the city's local of the International Laborers' Union. In the interview, conducted by Kathleen Banks Nutter, Chavez-Thompson talks about her early life, the shaping...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 191–200.
Published: 01 September 2002
... was organized under the following themes: Community Health Initiatives; Domestic Violence; Domestic Servitude/Empowerment and Ideology; and Women's Activism in Labor Unions. Why a Dialogue Between the Two Groups? South Africanwomen and African American women, respectively,emerge out ofwell-documented systems...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... (Spry Rush 2011, 70), so direct action and labor activism were the primary means by which the mass of the Caribbean population could assert their economic and political claims. These events sowed the seeds of both the Caribbean unionized labor movement and Caribbean anticolonial DENISE NOBLE...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 250–277.
Published: 01 March 2003
... contributed to rising incomes for both men and women. Cocoa production provided incomes for an expanding base of producers, wage laborers, and buyers. Women made up approximately fifty percent of the buyers who purchased small quantities of cocoa from farmers and transported it to bulking centers (Forde 1946...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 209–236.
Published: 01 April 2020
... ). The anticapitalist analysis of our collective has informed our approach to labor organizing. To counter the alienation that workers experience, we are committed to practicing participatory democracy within the PVWC and equipping workers with the tools to lead their own struggles. That commitment is both ethical...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 129–156.
Published: 01 September 2015
... citizens. "When we talk about globalization, we see that these companies can go anywhere in the world," one promotora comments. The film reaches its climax when, lacking support from factory labor unions (which are virtual unions paid for and used by many Asian corporations to cover up their wrongdoings...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 94–114.
Published: 01 April 2023
...-reinforced with razor wire. Even though Melilla relies heavily on transnational labor and commerce with its Moroccan neighbor city of Nador and Beni Enzar, Spain and the European Union continue to implement harsh immigration policies and practices that try to severely deter migratory flows, and they have...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 42–57.
Published: 01 September 2001
... on behalf of the Foreign Labor Union, and his inability to obtain reliable work leave him disillusioned. Amiri's highly critical perspectives on Japanese culture-its fierce individualism and abuse of migrant workers-are the moral conscience of this film. Through these people, Overstay attempts to attach...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (2): 396–413.
Published: 01 October 2021
...: Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union in Global Context , edited by Rainbow David , 3 – 26 . Montreal : McGill-Queen’s University Press . Rana Junaid . 2011 . Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Riccardi-Swartz...
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Meridians (2002) 3 (1): 19–41.
Published: 01 September 2002
... sometimes has revolutionary consequences insofar as it politicizes the networks of everydaylife" (p. 545). 3. Derechos Human Rights. San Leandro, California. 16 April 2002. <httpwww.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/eng.html>. 4. The Tribunal was sponsored by a wide array of human rights organizations, labor unions...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and went to work. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, she went to work for the Laborers' International Union and served as secretary for the Lubbock local; as the only Spanish-speaking union officer, she represented all of the Hispanic workers within the local. Four years later, she went to work...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 261–277.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of their political moment, however. Delegate after delegate described the horrendous conditions faced by women, children, and men under Dutch, French, and British rule in Asian and African colonies. They spoke of planned starvation, forced labor, and conscription into colonial armies. They condemned the military...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 April 2020
... powerfully in the “Telegram-gate” protests. So, too, were the issues that Biggs has consistently championed. Two years of May Day protests by labor unions to defend pensions and the rights of workers turned out to be the dress rehearsal for the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019. What remains unclear is whether...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
... they continued to exploit the labor of hundreds of thousands of black farm workers, most of whom the 2 PATRICIA McFADDEN Zimbabwean state considered outsiders and who were not protected by any labor legislation, nor were they allowed to register as citizens of the new state. Among these hundreds of thousands...
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Meridians (2018) 16 (1): 114–141.
Published: 01 September 2018
... associated with non-White and non-European cultures and corporeality. Their bodies, childbearing, labor, and cultural values were perceived as inhibiting the rearing of proper socialist subjects who could bring about the next stage of social evolution: the communist society. In the Soviet Union...
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Meridians (2011) 11 (1): 66–90.
Published: 01 September 2011
... to empower the audience (Campbell 1989, 13). Building on Campbell's work, Mari Boor Tonn argued that "maternal roles were particularly apt rhetorical strategies for female labor union agitators because agitation and mothering often share two essential dimensions: 68 MERIDIANS 11:1 nurturing and militancy...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 166–176.
Published: 01 March 2008
...-at least they're not women. Women also represent a surplus labor supply, the control of which is absolutely necessary to the profitable functioning of capitalism. Women are consistently exploited by the System. They are paid less for the same work that men do and jobs that are specifically relegated...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 244–246.
Published: 01 April 2019
... for the unions and we could recite facts about labor conditions and open borders and product dumping and job losses. But what we knew consciously was nothing to what we knew in our skin. But it was not Yes. A No against Non is not Yes. It was still raging against, and on the other side was fullness, desire...
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