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...Nelson Lichtenstein Copyright ©2000 MARHO: The Radical Historian's Organization, Inc. 2000 THE PAST IN PRINT Vanishing Jobs in a Racialized America Nelson Lichtenstein Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins...

... a work paradigm to practical demands for criminal justice reform and social and health initiatives. At the same time, the idea of sex as work provoked challenges inside and outside the ranks of sex traders. Antiviolence campaigners disputed that prostitution was a “job like any other” and competed...

... women’s role in the American economy has changed dramatically in the twentieth century. Women’s participa- tion in the paid labor force has increased greatly, and, with bureau- cratization and the growth of the service sector, clerical and service jobs have replaced domestic service and garment...

... women, non-white women -had not wanted well- paying jobs, and would not willingly make the kinds of com- promises she herself had made in order to succeed at them. What was to be gained by such testimony? A successful argument would damage women who worked at Sears as well as past...

..., Robert Elsasser set up a table soliciting support for his program to do something about the job crisis in the historical profession. In particular, Elsasser asked people to sign a petition to put Elsasser on an AHA committee so he can speak out about the employment crisis. At the conference he...

... and middle- class reformers to reduce it. Unemployment, in the modern sense of involuntary joblessness, is a concept that coincides with in- dustrialization and is a byprodud of proletarianization. To be sure, there was plenty of underemployment and temporary seasonal job- lessness in the rural...

... unions evinced a single-minded focus on securing jobs for members and political connections for union leadership. On the other hand, elder activists like Woolf advanced a vision of class solidarity in which unions had a responsibility to support the rights of retired former workers and the elderly poor...

... that bound [black workers] to an increasingly intolerable status quo” (220), even in CIO unions with a strong com- mitment to interracialism. This is strong stuff. As long as Nelson sticks to exploring the perpetuation of racialized job hierarchies...

... mine to be a miner Sergei want- ed to be a ”military man or a driver.”12 Neither mine danger nor Tatiana’s fears were new, of course; but all the political agitation over the horrendously unsafe conditions of Donetsk‘s mines, possibly combined with rising expectations about jobs in other...

... a successful and fulfilling career. Unfortunately, that has not been the case. With budget cuts, a shrinking number of academic tenure-track jobs, and the gradual chipping away of affirmative action, many students have had to face an uncertain future even as they continue to pursue their degrees. Many...

... college, I absorbed certain, perhaps traditionally conservative, no- tions of academic mentoring. As a historian tossed about in the stormy seas of the job market in the mid-1990s (four jobs in five years), I have seen the erosion of the faculty-student bond that I cherished as an undergraduate...

..., mainly women. He referred to being brought up by a “neighborhood of women,” something that he knew was somewhat unusual, but, to him, not the least bit strange. He linked this experience to his later openness to feminism. As a child, from the time of grammar school, he always had a job. By his account...

... and TAYLORISM IN CHILE/9 risk their jobs in an illegal strike against an intransigent and power- ful boss? The answer that emerges from the historical record of oral history interviews, contemporary union minutes, press reports, and congressional debates is complex, varying with the perspective...

... and TAYLORISM IN CHILE/9 risk their jobs in an illegal strike against an intransigent and power- ful boss? The answer that emerges from the historical record of oral history interviews, contemporary union minutes, press reports, and congressional debates is complex, varying with the perspective...

..., No More Candy Store: States and Cities Making Job Subsidies Accountable (Washington, DC: Good Jobs First, 1997), 3. Note: Proceeds from IRBs, which are government issued and tax-­exempt, are typically lent to manufacturing firms. Sometimes, government officials wrote legislation...

... the movement was in some considerable disarray, when the bottom had fallen out of the City University system, when people were not sure they were going to get jobs, and when people were most unsure what it meant to identify as a radical his- torian. Reading over some...

... themselves with job security or reasonable expectations of it. And it will mean academics fighting corporatization in the university as part of a self-conscious fight against the same corporatization elsewhere-speaking up against all forms of outsourcing, subcontracting, and systematic...

... in university policy, graduate school programs, the job market, and the state of their field-all necessary to good mentoring-without a recognition of these responsibilities in their job descriptions, time allocations, and reward systems. The hiring of adjuncts exacerbates these problems by creating...