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Forming Responsible Trade Unions: The Colonial Office, Colonial labor, and the Trades Union Congress
Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 367–392.
Published: 01 May 1984
...Peter Weiler 1984 Forming Responsible Trade Unions:
The Colonial Office, Colonial Labor,
and the Trades Union Congress
Peter Weiler
In the late 1930s trade unions developed with great rapidity
and often with much violence in various areas of the British...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 181–189.
Published: 01 January 1993
...Julia Greene Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 Ruling Labor: Sidney Hillman
and the Politics of
Industrial Unionism
Julia Greene
Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (139): 145–165.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Laura Renata Martin Abstract This article examines the opposing sides taken by elderly tenants and labor unions over a major urban renewal project in 1970s San Francisco. Tenant activists sought to block the construction of the Yerba Buena Center and the resulting relocation of thousands of elderly...
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Radical History Review (1994) 1994 (60): 137–141.
Published: 01 October 1994
...-to represent.
Teresa Meade teaches Latin American history at Union College in Schenedady, New
York. She writes in areas of labor and gender history of Brazil and Mexico. She is a
member of the RHR Collective. ...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 96–125.
Published: 01 October 2018
...-photographers, and photo-reproductions of New Voices. New Voices’ photographs included African Americans in the everyday life of the union, challenged race-based labor segmentation, supported community struggles, and defied racial norms in midcentury America. Figure 7. Bedford-Stuyvesant Demonstration...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 49–77.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Joseph E. Hower Abstract Drawing on union convention proceedings, reports, newspapers, speeches, and internal memoranda, this article uses the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) as a case study to explore organized labor’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. One...
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in Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65’s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–1955
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 10. Xmas Shopping, Union Style , Union Voice, December 30, 1951. United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 collection. Courtesy of Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Libraries
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 280–325.
Published: 01 May 1984
... days before
Election day, thirty thousand New York City workers marched by
torchlight in a driving rainstorm to support labor’s candidate €or
Mayor, Henry George. From Cooper Union around Union Square
to Tompkins Square- the landmarks of working-class resistance
in the city-the parade...
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Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (55): 53–87.
Published: 01 January 1993
... from apprenticeship programs, and kept
them out of key sectors of the economy. Reflecting on white labor’s
sorry record, George Sinclair Mitchell concluded in 1936 that ”the
Southern trade unionism of the last thirty-odd years has been in
good measure a protective devise for the march...
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Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 75–98.
Published: 01 May 1978
...
Brooklyn to Duluth, and from Indianapolis to Philadel-
phia, striking carmen were joined by thousands of
sympathizers who threw rocks, overturnedcars, and beat
strikebreakers. Transit unions, with huge memberships,
had considerable influence in central labor councils...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (102): 161–170.
Published: 01 October 2008
... increase in San
Francisco.
Why the focus on young workers?
We have seen a total shift in the economy. We are not living in the era of the factory
any more. It is postmodern. We don’t have those modernist factories and the big
labor unions. We are far from the height of organized labor’s power...
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Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (18): 136–141.
Published: 01 October 1978
...
Hollywood's treatment of the working class and labor unions has
never been noted for its realism. Even in the thirties when unemploy-
ment and poverty intensified unavoidable class divisions there was
always an element of slumming in the way that the movies protrayed
labor. The best of Hollywood...
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in Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65’s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–1955
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 1. Union Solidarity—Spelled Out in Blood , New Voices, February 11, 1951. United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 collection. Courtesy of Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Libraries
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in Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65’s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–1955
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 6. Revlon Negotiating Committee , Union Voice , September 23, 1951. Neg. 7942, United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Negatives. Courtesy of Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Libraries
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in Imagining Racial Equality: Local 65’s Union Photographers, Postwar Civil Rights, and the Power of the Real, 1940–1955
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 12. Stuyvesant Town Delegation to Mayor Impelletteri, in Union Headquarters , 1951. Neg. 7574, United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Negatives. Courtesy of Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University Libraries
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 174–188.
Published: 01 October 1995
... for this seeming anomaly. Because
labor unions had not welcomed Asian workers, and because labor
leaders had, in fact, been among the most active participants of the
various anti-Asian movements, the ”old” labor history that centered
on the institutional aspects of the organized labor movement could...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (61): 93–123.
Published: 01 January 1995
... (such as paid vacations and a minimum
wage) only if they registered with the Ministry of Labor. In similar
corporatist fashion, unions were legal only if they gained recogni-
tion from the ministry, and the new system allowed for only one
labor union in each industry. The immediate effect was to institu...
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Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 39–74.
Published: 01 May 1978
... I must make a firm stand for a fair share of the
profits of my industry, which is nothing less than the
Union List, have nine hours' work, seven hours' play,
eight hours' sleep, and fair wages every day.
"Labor's Catechism, The People (Providence...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 407–412.
Published: 01 May 1984
... of the 1930s) many of
these reforms were realized, labor unions built and minimum
prosperity achieved. After that the CPUSA, with a strong push
from McCarthyism, became extinct for all practical purposes. I
have read about labor unions as forces of American acculturation
but never, until...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (138): 171–178.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., the rewrite is directly informed by current political debates around labor unions and religious freedom, the following rewrites take a more holistic approach in representing the Trumpian reality of our everyday lives. They still engage with both the novel and today’s politics, but in the first case...
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