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Cambridge University Press Labors Struggles 19451950
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Cambridge University Press Union Business
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Cambridge University Press Soviet Workers and DeStalinization The Consolidation of the Modern System of Soviet Production Relations 19531964 87 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 87
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Cambridge University Press Pure and Simple Politics The American Federation of Labor and Political Activism 18811917
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Cambridge University Press The Union Makes Us Strong
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of the Trade Union
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of the Trade Union
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Cambridge University Press Revolutionary Industrial Unionism
Book SynopsisVerity Burgmann writes with vigour and passion about the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Australia. The book claims that this alternative form of revolutionary working-class politics has been undervalued. It describes the 'Wobblies' activities and culture, and their impact on Australian political history.Table of Contents1. 'Flowers to the rebels failed'; 2. 'On the industrial as well as on the political field': the IWW Clubs, 1905–1910; 3. 'Wild men from Yankeeland': the arrival of the Chicago IWW, 1910–1914; 4. 'Education, organisation, emancipation': the revolutionary project; 5. 'We, the hoboes': who were the Wobblies?; 6. 'No barriers of race': the challenge to working-class racism; 7. 'It's great to fight for freedom with a rebel girl': the answer to the Woman Question; 8. 'A real democracy': organisation and practice; 9. 'A poor day's work for a poor day's pay': ethics and economics, 10. 'Bump me into parliament': the critique of Labourism, 11. 'An injury to one an injury to all': direct industrial action, 12. 'Let those who own Australia do the fighting: opposing the war, 13. 'With the ferocity of a Bengal tiger': the state responds, 14. 'Set the twelve men free': the release campaign, 15. What happened to the Wobblies?
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Cambridge University Press Heroic Defeats
Book SynopsisHeroic Defeats is a comparative investigation of how unions and firms interact when economic circumstances require substantial job loss.Trade Review' … a well written and structured and closely argued book containing detailed analysis in a readable format. Furthermore, such excellent use of secondary analysis shows what can be done with such data and methodology. In short, this book contains useful and interesting information on important industries … I thoroughly recommend it be read, put in libraries and highlighted on students reading lists'. Labour History ReviewsTable of Contents1. The puzzle of union responses to workforce reductions; 2. Games analyzing job loss; 3. Job loss in the Italian and British automobile industries; 4. Triggers of industrial action; 5. Pit closures in the Japanese and British mining industries; 6. Seeking allies: how other actors affect interactions over job loss; 7. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of the Modern Workplace
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Cambridge University Press Forces of Labor
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Cambridge University Press Soviet Workers and DeStalinization
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Market Power
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Cambridge University Press Labors Struggles 19451950
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Cambridge University Press Dreaming of What Might Be
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Cambridge University Press Strikes and Solidarity
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Cambridge University Press One Big Union
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Cambridge University Press British Trade Unions since 1933 46 New Studies in Economic and Social History
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Cambridge University Press The Union Makes Us Strong
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Cambridge University Press The Workers Movement in the United States 18791885
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Cambridge University Press Managing Competitive Crisis
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Cambridge University Press Labour Unions Public Policy and Economic Growth
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Cambridge University Press NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism
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Cambridge University Press Forces of Labor
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Cambridge University Press The New Community Firm
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Cambridge University Press The Craft of Bureaucratic Neutrality
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Cambridge University Press Strikes and Solidarity
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Cambridge University Press Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation European Industrial Relations Since the 1970s
Book SynopsisThis book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the present. Its purpose is to evaluate the extent to which liberalization has taken hold of European industrial relations and institutions through five detailed, chapter-length studies, each focusing on a different country and including quantitative analysis. The book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of what has happened to the institutions that regulate the labor market, as well as the relations between employers, unions, and states in Western Europe since the collapse of the long postwar boom. The primary theoretical goal of this book is to provide a critical examination of some of the central claims of comparative political economy, particularly those involving the role and resilience of national institutions in regulating and managing capitalist political economies.Trade Review'This is an important book for all scholars and practitioners of industrial relations. It includes very detailed and insightful analyses of developments in industrial relations in a number of European countries (Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden), but its ambition goes well beyond that.' Roberto Pedersini, TransferTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Arguing for neoliberal convergence; 2. Quantitative analysis of industrial relations change; 3. Constructing a liberal market economy: the collapse of collective regulation in Britain; 4. State-led liberalization and the transformation of worker representation in France; 5. Softening institutions: the liberalization of German industrial relations with Chiara Benassi; 6. 'Well dug old mole!' The rise and decline of concessionary corporatism in Italy; 7. The conversion of corporatism: re-engineering Swedish industrial relations for a neo-liberal era; 8. Actors, institutions and pathways: the liberalization of industrial relations in Western Europe; 9. From industrial relations liberalization to the instability of capitalist growth; Bibliography; Index.
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The University of Chicago Press Streets Railroads and the Great Strike of 1877
Book SynopsisFor one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most violent urban uprisings in American history. Whereas most historians treat the event solely as a massive labor strike that targeted the railroads, David O. Stowell examines America's predicament more broadly to uncover the roots of this rebellion. He studies the urban origins of the Strike in three upstate New York cities--Buffalo, Albany, and Syracuse. He finds that locomotives rumbled through crowded urban spaces, sending panicked horses and their wagons careening through streets. Hundreds of people were killed and injured with appalling regularity. The trains also disrupted street traffic and obstructed certain forms of commerce. For these reasons, Stowell argues, The Great Strike was not simply an uprising fueled by disgruntled workers. Rather, i
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MO - University of Illinois Press An American in Hitlers Berlin
Book SynopsisAn American labor leader's eyewitness perspective on the rise of Nazi power in Weimar-era BerlinTrade Review“[Plotkin] is an astute observer and captures everchanging moods.”--Jewish Book World"A harrowing picture of Berlin ravaged by the Depression, the Weimar Republic's last months and the onset of Nazism. . . . A rich subtle and extremely readable account of a crucial moment in German history."--European Journal of American Studies."A rare jewel. . . . An extremely valuable source for comparative labour historians and for historians of the Weimar Republic and of National Socialism."--Revue Francaise D'etudes Americaines"Once I started reading this work, I could not put it down. Plotkin's diary is a remarkable analysis 'from the bottom up' of German society, working-class institution, and politics in the period of transition from the Weimar Republic to the rise of Hitler. A very important book."--Fraser Ottanelli, University of South Florida"Plotkin's writing is lively and conveys a vivid portrayal of German political and economic life on the eve of the Nazi takeover. It also provides an excellent sense of the impact of the Great Depression on German society. A valuable contribution to German history, labor history, and Jewish history."--Vicki Caron, author of Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1933-1942"We have almost no eyewitness accounts of this period from nonjournalist observers and certainly none from the perspective of an American working-class observer. This work adds significantly to our knowledge on the history of internationalist trade unionism in the U.S. during the 1920s and 1930s, which is under-researched for this period. Highly recommended."--Dorothee Schneider, coauthor of "My Life in Germany before and after January 30, 1933": Refugee Memoirs and ExperiencesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Abbreviations xi Introduction xiii Catherine Collomp and Bruno GroppoAbraham Plotkin's Diary October-November 1932 3 December 1932 31 January 1933 85 February 1933 137Abraham Plotkin The Destruction of the Labor Movement in Germany 175 Brief Chronology of Political Events in Germany, 1930-33 197 Index 201Illustrations follow page 136
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MO - University of Illinois Press Sweet Tyranny
Book SynopsisAmid America's sugar industry, a bitter debate over imperialism and immigrationTrade ReviewWinner of the Richard L. Wentworth/Illinois Award in American History, 2010. "A compelling account of the deeply interconnected worlds created by the emergence of a new cash crop."--American Historical Review“Mapes has uncovered patterns of global trade and labor markets that have had a profound impact on American society from the turn of the twentieth century up to the present day.”--Michigan Historical Review "A very nuanced yet powerful examination of the triumph of industrialism over agricultural America."--The Annals of Iowa“Mapes tells the understudied sugar beet industry’s fascinating story, and links events in Michigan between 1899 and 1940 to the broader national and global considerations. . . . Recommended.”--Choice"A fascinating work that provides important information about the history of agriculture and the construction of the term 'factories in the field' and its connections with the American empire. This book should become a mainstay among works in ethnic studies, agricultural labor, corporate power, and the state."--Gilbert G. Gonzalez, author of Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930"Fascinating and beautifully crafted, Sweet Tyranny places growers, workers, and processors at the center of national debates over immigration, imperialism, protectionism, child labor, and a living wage."--Cindy Hahamovitch, author of The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
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MO - University of Illinois Press The Labor Question in America Economic Democracy
Book SynopsisA nuanced assessment of citizenship and labor in the Progressive EraTrade Review"This is an important work, one of the most important recent books, not only in labor history, but in social theory. Filled with insights and surprising twists, it repays a careful reading and rereading. It is a model study; I have added it to my graduate reading lists and urge everyone to do the same."--Labor History"Recommended."--Choice "Currarino's book will enable readers to understand the transformations that took place during the Gilded Age, not only in the minds of workers but in American society as a whole. Altogether, the book is an impressive accomplishment."--Business History Review "This splendidly researched cultural and intellectual history of the 'labor question' during the Gilded Age offers a masterful explanation of the move from a producerist to a consumerist understanding of citizenship and labor. The Labor Question in America will be widely read by students and scholars of the labor movement, the development of twentieth-century liberalism, and the history of the Gilded Age."--Lawrence M. Lipin, author of Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30"Rosanne Currarino has provided a nuanced, deeply informed reading of the complex intellectual and cultural currents that shaped the labor question in the late nineteenth century. This is quite simply a marvelously informative book."--The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"More a cultural history of the debates over the role of labor in American life than a history of labor activities themselves. This book packs a surprisingly large volume of historical content and sophisticated argument into a slim volume."--History Teacher "This book is a valuable contribution to the history of the Gilded Age, as it provides scholars of the period with a concise intellectual history to better position studies of workers themselves."--Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas"A compelling case that economic democracy requires the full participation of the American working class in the economic life of the nation as both workers and consumers."--H-Net Reviews "Currarino has identified a vital shift in the debate over the meaning of democracy in a nation where such a large portion of its citizens were dependent upon others for their livelihoods."--American Historical Review
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MO - University of Illinois Press Chinese in the Woods Logging and Lumbering in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Chinese in the Woods, historian Sue Fawn Chung fills a notable gap in western history… This book is meticulously researched and combines an impressive array of both secondary and primary sources, including an innovative incorporation of archeological data… Chinese in the Woods could well prove a gold mine of statistical and historical data."--H-Net Reviews"Chinese in the Woods is an informative piece of work, exploring a new area in the study of Chinese immigrants in the West."--Western Historical Quarterly"This is an extremely important study about an important and understudied topic."--Reviews in American History"A significant contribution to the study of the American West. It also tells us a lot about the lumber industry in California and Nevada--the business, labor, production, and technical aspects--which make for a fascinating subject."--Evelyn Hu-DeHart, editor of Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization"Chinese in the Woods is a meticulously researched and important contribution to the history of labor in the American West and the critical Chinese played in the lumber trade."--Pacific Historical Review"This research challenges some of the stereotypes of Chinese loggers as "cheap" and docile in the period of merging unionism, anti-Chinese movements, and immigration restrictions. Recommended."--Choice"An impressive testimonial to Chung's meticulous research and fine scholarship… A very worthwhile addition to your library."--Asian American Comparative Collection Newsletter"Chinese in the Woods is a compelling treatment of the little-known Chinese labor experiences in the logging and lumbering industry and how these workers engaged with the wider community."--American Historical Review "Men and timber but much more! Chung's original work opens new vistas on the experience of Chinese and the building of the West. It is a story of labor but also of ethnic experience, trans-Pacific relations, business, and 19th century technologies. A great read!"--Gordon H. Chang, co-editor of Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present "A richly contextualized and meticulously researched account of a little known yet important group of Chinese immigrant workers, illuminating not only their fascinating experiences but also their role in developing the U.S. economy."--Yong Chen, author of Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943: A Transpacific Community
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MO - University of Illinois Press Staley
Book SynopsisThis on-the-ground labor history chronicles the bitterly contested labor conflict in the mid 1990s at the A. E. Staley corn processing plant in Decatur, Illinois, where workers waged one of the most hard-fought struggles in recent labor history. When the company launched a full-scale assault on its workers, Allied Industrial Workers Local 837 responded by educating and mobilizing its members, organizing strong support from the religious and African American communities, building a nationwide solidarity movement, and engaging in nonviolent civil disobedience at the plant gates. Through scores of interviews and videotapes of every union meeting, the authors bring the workers'' voices to the fore and reveal their innovative tactics that inform and strengthen today''s labor movement.Trade ReviewAwarded the Certificate of Superior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2010. Awarded the C.L.R. James Prize for Best Book in Working-Class Studies by the Working-Class Studies Association, 2010. Tied for Best Book related to the field of Labor Studies published in 2007-2009 from the United Association for Labor Educators (UALE), 2010. “Sympathetically written from the viewpoint of the most aggressive union members and their cadre of supporters . . . . This is a valuable book.”--Union News"A powerful, passionate, and informative blow-by-blow account. . . . This book offers a how-to on building a militant, democratic, and effective organization."--Journal of Illinois History"Staley is a masterful and cautionary account that brilliantly captures the obstacles and dilemmas faced by organized labor at the close of the twentieth century."--The Annals of Iowa"A vital contribution to a discussion of how to rebuild the labor movement today."--International Socialist Review"Staley ... is important to read. It shows the courage of ordinary people who are transformed by their experiences, and hopefully it will also inspire a new generation to take up the fight to transform unions into institutions that are run by workers in their own interests."--Against the Current" A compelling analysis of a decisive moment in the struggle for social democracy."--Labour/Le Travail "One of the best accounts of a labor conflict ever written. Essential reading."--Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!"An extraordinary achievement, indispensable to trade unionists."--Staughton Lynd, author of The New Rank and File "Masterfully told. A must read."--Tom Balanoff, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1 "Stunningly rich and detailed. The strategic discussions are magnificent and unmatched."--Peter Rachleff, author of Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement "A magnificent achievement. It will become a classic."--Bruce Nissen, author of Which Direction for Organized Labor? Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformation "Staley will serve and guide a new generation of labor activists."--Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, Archdiocese of Detroit "An inspiring story of vibrant and relentless rank-and-file resistance."--Ruth Milkman, author of L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement "Rarely is there a book as compelling in its description of a real-life struggle."--Bill Fletcher, coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice "One of the best analyses of a worker struggle I ever read. A must read for union organizers and advocates for social justice."--Eliseo Medina, executive vice president of Service Employees International Union "This is a very good book for understanding those tremendous hurdles workers must fight to overcome when they stand up for themselves and their families."--Cecil E. Roberts, president of United Mine Workers of America "In Staley, Ashby and Hawking point the way forward for American labor."--Kim Moody, cofounder of Labor Notes and author of U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The Promise of Revival from Below "The narrative bristles with strategic lessons and insights."--James R. Barrett, author of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism "The book combines analytic comprehensiveness with moving first-person accounts that texture the conflict and make the meaning of consciousness, as it changes and transforms itself, come alive to the reader."--Nelson Lichtenstein, author of State of the Union: A Century of American Labor "Staley is a must read for anyone interested in community and religious partnerships with labor. Its passionate style and historical accuracy engage the reader from beginning to end."--Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid-And What We Can Do About It "The diminution of the effectiveness of the labor movement's power and the distancing of organized religion from this historic organ of social justice have weakened both church and labor, while muting a once united voice for justice for working people. Our collective silence encouraged three decades of greed and allowed callous disregard for the most vulnerable in America to become national policy. This book suggest that this schism can be healed and this nation returned to those whose work has made so much possible. May it be so."--Bishop C. Joseph Sprague, The United Methodist ChurchTable of ContentsPreface ix Prologue: Jim Beals 1 1. The Company and the Union 7 2. Tate & Lyle Comes to Decatur 19 3. The Union Prepares to Resist 27 4. Work-to-Rule 45 5. The Temperature Rises 58 6. Locked Out 74 7. Road Warriors and Solidarity Committees 94 8. Debating the Corporate Campaign 112 9. Peacetime Soldiers and Wartime Soldiers 124 10. God as Outside Agitator 137 11. The African American Workers 151 12. Civil Disobedience 169 13. Strike City, USA 194 14. The Paperworkers 212 15. Mission to Bal Harbour 225 16. Still in the Fight 237 17. In the Fast Lane 247 18. Showdown 261 19. Aftermath 278 20. A Winnable Fight 290 Appendix: Sources 303 Notes 307 Glossary 343 Index 347Photographs follow page 6.
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MO - University of Illinois Press Banded Together
Book SynopsisProviding incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community''s efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of deindustrialization. Through powerful oral histories and other primary sources, Jeremy Brecher tells the story of a group of average Americans--factory workers, housewives, parishioners, and organizers--who tried to create a democratic alternative to the economic powerlessness caused by the closing of factories in the Connecticut Naugatuck Valley region during the 1970s and 1980s. This volume focuses on grassroots organization, democratically controlled enterprises, and supportive public policies, providing examples from the Naugatuck Valley Project community-alliance that remain relevant to the economic problems of today and tomorrow. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with Project leaders, staff, and other knowledgeaTrade Review"An important book for everyone interested in how factory workers who have been negatively impacted by plant closing and job loss, and their organizations, churches, and community groups can organize and create alternative economic models to fight this dislocation."--Industrial and Labor Relations Review"Brecher records the false starts, successes, and failures of several efforts to develop economic democratization from below and he does it well. Recommended."--Choice "An invaluable reflection on one community's imaginative efforts to overcome the bleak economic realities facing industrial regions everywhere and the solidarity that resulted."--Labour/Le Travail"Accessible, clear, and engaged, Banded Together will make an impressive addition to the ways historians understand deindustrialization. Brecher's narrative is certain to be seen as a model by a new generation of labor historians, scholars, and scholar-activists."--Peter Rachleff, author of Hard Pressed in the Heartland: The Hormel Strike and the Future of the Labor Movement"An invaluable resource for formulating strategies to rebuild economic democracy one community at a time."--Labor Studies Journal Table of ContentsPrologue ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii 1. Roots of Powerlessness in the Brass Valley 1 2. Banding Together 21 3. Buyout 35 4. Organizing 49 5. Century Brass 67 6. The Life and Death of Seymour Specialty Wire 84 7. Founding ValleyCare Cooperative 111 8. Taking Care of Business 130 9. The Demise of ValleyCare 149 10. Brookside Housing Cooperative 164 11. Economic Democratization from Below 186 12. Afterstories 203 Notes 219 List of Interviews 241 Index 243
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University of Illinois Press Archie Green
Book SynopsisRemembering a life devoted to preserving working-class traditionsTrade ReviewAwarded the CLR James Award for Best Book from the Working Class Studies Association, 2012. "Burns provides a balanced, fair, and well-informed analysis based on labor scholarship. . . . It is well worth the read."--Labor"An intimate, first-person account of Green's life that illuminates ideological and strategic links between expressive culture and progressive action. Folklorists, labor historians, discographers, and students and scholars of American culture will treasure this book."--Robert McCarl, editor of Latinos in Idaho: Celebrando Cultura"Burns has done a great service by writing Archie Green: The Making of a Working-Class Hero, a fine study that does justice to its subject's fascinating intellectual development and considerable impact."--Labor Studies Journal"This sophisticated book ushers readers into Archie Green's compelling but always enigmatic presence, vividly and immediately summoning his personal, political, and intellectual pasts. Readers are welcomed into the community of purpose he spent a lifetime creating."--Robert Cantwell, author of If Beale Street Could Talk: Music, Community, Culture"Sean Burns's biography of this remarkable person gives the reader a clear sense of Green's varied life and career and of his many accomplishments. Archie Green made numerous contributions to folklore studies, labor and workplace oral history, and the history of recorded vernacular music. Scholars today would benefit from understanding those topics from this early proponent and practitioner of the "bottom-up" oral history perspective."--Oral History ReviewTable of ContentsAbbreviations Foreword - David Roediger Introduction: Worker, Scholar, Organizer Part I: Of Shreds and Patches - The Early Political Formation of Archie Green 1. Living Questions: Family, Revolution, and Emigration; 2. Red, Not-So-White, and Blue: Culture, Identity, and Power in 1920s Boyle Heights; 3. Strikes and Stones: Student Politics and Labor in the 1930s Part II: Triangle of Commitments - How 1930s San Francisco Maritime Politics Impacted Green 4. From Berkeley Stacks to Stake-side Trucks; 5. "Brothers Slugging Brothers"; 6. Green's Left Anti-Communist Critiques of Harry Bridges and Reconsiderations of Communist Party History; 7. Green's Pragmatic Path: Union Service and World War II Veterans Organizing Part III: 'A Decent Philosophy' - Green and the Culture and Politics of American Folk Revival 8. Folk Music and the American Communist Party of the 1930s and 1940s; 9. Green's Cultural Turn: Moments in the Making of a Laborlorist; 10. Vernacular Music: Green's Aesthetic Ideology as Cultural Pluralism Part IV: 'Always on Stolen Time' - Green's Influence on Folklore, Labor History, and Cultural Studies 11. Laborlore: Alternative Popular Front Imaginary; 12. Green's Place in New Labor History and American Cultural Studies; 13. Laborlore: Pedagogy of the Working Class Epilogue - Nick Spitzer's Last Interview with Archie Green Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index; About the Author
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MO - University of Illinois Press Chicago in the Age of Capital Class Politics and
Book SynopsisTrade Review Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society (ISHS), 2013. "A masterful case for the power of intensive local studies."--Journal of Illinois History"Excellent work."--Choice"This first-rate study of an important city offers a careful, nuanced take on the relationship between modern capitalism and democracy."--The Journal of American History "This is a superbly researched, well-conceived, and boldly argued interpretation of the rise of a permanent working class, the formation of an industrial bourgeoisie, and the relations between these social classes in Chicago from the antebellum years through the 1870s. Anyone who continues to question the salience of class analysis for understanding nineteenth-century social history, and, of course, those who are already convinced of this approach, will want to read this study."--James R. Barrett, author of William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism"An indispensable study for anyone interested in the labor history of Chicago in the nineteenth century. . . . this book also provides a useful context to some of the most dramatic events in that history."--American Historical Review"A tour-de-force example of local narrative used to illuminate historical theory."--Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era"Scholars seeking to understand the intricacies of Chicago's political history in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction should start here. Those with broader interests in the relationship between capitalism and democracy in the late nineteenth century will find in this book a provocative alternative to the dominant historiographical perspective."--Reviews in American History"Chicago in the Age of Capital will be useful to other historians for its extensive use of newspaper records and its solid grounding in the quantitative analysis of population and manufacturing trends. Its blend of social, political, and intellectual history contextualizes and deepens our understanding of the relationship between capital, labor and politics."--The Historian "A well-written and much-needed labor history of Chicago during Civil War and Reconstruction. Labor historians of the Civil War era and/or nineteenth-century America will welcome this book into the historical conversation."--H-Net Reviews / H-War "Chicago in the Age of Capital is a welcome addition to our understanding of the emerging and early working class politics of the nineteenth century. Jentz and Schneirov have rightfully pushed us to continue thinking about Chicago and the Midwest within a larger national story--one that has previously been limited to southern regionalism--as boosterism, capitalism, ethnicity, and labor all formed a complex web of power and politics."--Middle West Review "Chicago in the Age of Capital is an unmatched scholarly investigation of the emergence of the political economy of the Gilded Age by two masters of Chicago's labor history."--Labour
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Mariner Books Ghosts of Gold Mountain The Epic Story of the
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WW Norton & Co Going Down Jericho Road
Book SynopsisThe definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.Trade Review"...brilliant in the way it delineates the economic benefits to Southern society of American apartheid... it is also stirring in portraying the strike leaders, ordinary workers who risked everything to establish their basic rights in the face of arrogant and condescending power." Michael Carlson, The Spectator"
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WW Norton & Co Blood Runs Coal
Book SynopsisFinalist for the 2021 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime The shocking assassination that catalyzed groundbreaking reform in Big Coal.Trade Review"Bradley reveals the appalling story of the Yablonski murders, combining elements of true crime drama and legal thriller with a perceptive exploration of a transformative moment in modern labor history." -- Steve Nathans-Kelly - New York Journal of Books"One of the most shocking episodes in organized labor’s blood-soaked history.... Bradley reconstructs the crime and the coalfield uprising it inspired in his meticulously researched book." -- Steve Halvonik - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"Union politics and true crime mix vividly in Bradley’s account.... [Bradley] tells a great story." -- National Book Review"Brought to life in vivid detail.... A nuanced picture of a real, successful struggle for democracy." -- Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein - The Baffler"Blood Runs Coal is impossible to put down. Mark A. Bradley has nailed his subjects in every possible way, from his chillingly cinematic handling of a breathtaking triple homicide to exciting courtroom dramas to a cast of villains from the violent gangs of the Hillbilly Underworld, and to the true-life heroic crusade to reform a murderous coal mining labor union. Mr. Bradley skillfully presents a world no reader will ever forget." -- Charles Brandt, author of I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa"Mark A. Bradley’s Blood Runs Coal skillfully presents the story of an American tragedy, a reminder that greed and violence, perpetrated by those in power, has always been a threat to our society, and that we must always be prepared to fight it." -- John Sayles, writer and director of Matewan"An absorbing, brilliant account of one of the most tragic murder stories in modern labor history, Blood Runs Coal judiciously uncovers the hidden layers of a brutal crime in the last moments of the tumultuous decade of the 1960s, and recovers the legacy of the heroic movement for democracy in the coal fields that remains an urgent, powerful, and hopeful cautionary tale for today." -- Jeff Biggers, author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland"Masterful.... An absorbing narrative of pride, greed, arrogance, and retribution that will find a place in history and true crime collections." -- Library Journal, starred review"Page-turning.... Bradley fluidly interweaves union politics with insider accounts.... The result is both a juicy true crime story and a tribute to the power of effective labor movements." -- Publishers Weekly"A well-paced, thorough investigation of a half-century-old crime whose effects are still felt in the Appalachian coal fields." -- Kirkus
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Smart Technologies for Safety Engineering
Book SynopsisSmart technologies comprise a dynamic new interdisciplinary research field that encompasses a wide spectrum of engineering applications including, but not limited to, intelligent structures and materials, actuators, sensors and structural observability, control systems and software tools for the design of adaptive structures.Table of ContentsPreface. About the Authors. Organization of the Book. 1 Introduction to Smart Technologies (Jan Holnicki-Szulc, Jerzy Motylewski and Przemyslaw Kolakowski). 1.1 Smart Technologies – 30 Years of History. 1.2 Smart-Tech Hardware Issues. 1.2.1 Structual Health Monitoring. 1.2.2 Adaptive Impact Absorption. 1.3 Smart-Tech Software Issues. References. 2 The Virtual Distortion Method – A Versatile Reanalysis Tool (Przemyslaw Kolakowski, Marcin Wiklo and Jan Holnicki-Szulc). 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Overview of Reanalysis Methods. 2.3 Virtual Distortion Method – The Main Idea. 2.4 VDM in Structural Statics. 2.4.1 Influence Matrix in Statics. 2.4.2 Stiffness Remodeling in Statics. 2.4.3 Plasticity in Statics. 2.4.4 Example 1 in Statics. 2.4.5 Example 2 in Statics. 2.5 VDM in Structural Dynamics. 2.5.1 Influence Matrices in Dynamics. 2.5.2 Stiffness Remodeling in Dynamics. 2.5.3 Plasticity in Dynamics. 2.5.4 Mass Remodeling in Dynamics. 2.6 VDM-Based Sensitivity Analysis. 2.7 Versatility of VDM in System Modeling. 2.8 Recapitulation. 2.8.1 General Remarks. 2.8.2 Applications of the VDM to Structures. 2.8.3 Applications of the VDM to Nonstructural Systems. References. 3 VDM-Based Health Monitoring of Engineering Systems (Przemyslaw Kolakowski, Andrzej´ Swiercz, Anita Orlowska, Marek Kokot and Jan Holnicki-Szulc). 3.1 Introduction to Structural Health Monitoring. 3.2 Damage Identification in Skeletal Structures. 3.2.1 Introduction. 3.2.2 Time Domain (VDM-T) versus Frequency Domain (VDM-F). 3.2.3 Modifications in Beams. 3.2.4 Problem Formulation and Optimization Issues. 3.2.5 Numerical Algorithm. 3.2.6 Numerical Examples. 3.2.7 Experimental Verification. 3.2.8 Conclusions. 3.3 Modeling and Identification of Delamination in Double-Layer Beams. 3.3.1 Introduction. 3.3.2 Modeling of Delamination. 3.3.3 Identification of Delamination. 3.3.4 Conclusions. 3.4 Leakage Identification in Water Networks. 3.4.1 Introduction. 3.4.2 Modeling of Water Networks and Analogies to Truss Structures. 3.4.3 VDM-Based Simulation of Parameter Modification. 3.4.4 Leakage Identification. 3.4.5 Numerical Examples. 3.4.6 Conclusions. 3.5 Damage Identification in Electrical Circuits. 3.5.1 Introduction. 3.5.2 Modeling of Electrical Circuits and Analogies to Truss Structures. 3.5.3 VDM Formulation. 3.5.4 Defect Identification. 3.5.5 Numerical Example. 3.5.6 Conclusions. References. 4 Dynamic Load Monitoring (Lukasz Jankowski, Krzysztof Sekula, Bartlomiej D. Blachowski, Marcin Wiklo, and Jan Holnicki-Szulc). 4.1 Real-Time Dynamic Load Identification. 4.1.1 Impact Load Characteristics. 4.1.2 Solution Map Approach. 4.1.3 Approach Based on Force and Acceleration. 4.1.4 Approaches Based on Conservation of Momentum. 4.1.5 Experimental Test Stand. 4.1.6 Experimental Verification. 4.1.7 Comparison of Approaches. 4.2 Observer Technique for On-Line Load Monitoring. 4.2.1 State-Space Representation of Mechanical Systems. 4.2.2 State Estimation and Observability. 4.2.3 Model-Based Input Estimation. 4.2.4 Unknown Input Observer. 4.2.5 Numerical Examples. 4.3 Off-Line Identification of Dynamic Loads. 4.3.1 Response to Dynamic Loading. 4.3.2 Load Reconstruction. 4.3.3 Optimum Sensor Location. 4.3.4 Numerical Example. References. 5 Adaptive Impact Absorption (Piotr K. Pawlowski, Grzegorz Mikulowski, Cezary Graczykowski, Marian Ostrowski, Lukasz Jankowski and Jan Holnicki-Szulc). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Multifolding Materials and Structures. 5.2.1 Introduction. 5.2.2 The Multifolding Effect. 5.2.3 Basic Model of the MFM. 5.2.4 Experimental Results. 5.3 Structural Fuses for Smooth Reception of Repetitive Impact Loads. 5.3.1 Introductory Numerical Example. 5.3.2 Optimal Control 162 5.3.3 Structural Recovery. 5.3.4 Numerical Example of Adaptation and Recovery. 5.4 Absorption of Repetitive, Exploitative Impact Loads in Adaptive Landing Gears. 5.4.1 The Concept of Adaptive Landing Gear. 5.4.2 Control System Issues. 5.4.3 Modeling of ALG. 5.4.4 Control Strategies. 5.4.5 Potential for Improvement. 5.4.6 Fast Control of an MRF-Based Shock Absorber. 5.5 Adaptive Inflatable Structures with Controlled Release of Pressure. 5.5.1 The Concept of Adaptive Inflatable Structures (AIS), Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Tools. 5.5.2 Protection against Exploitative Impact Loads for Waterborne Transport. 5.5.3 Protective Barriers against an Emergency Crash for Road Transport. 5.5.4 Adaptive Airbag for Emergency Landing in Aeronautic Applications. 5.6 Adaptive Crash Energy Absorber. 5.6.1 Low-Velocity Impacts. 5.6.2 Energy Absorption by the Prismatic Thin-Walled Structure. 5.6.3 Use of Pyrotechnic Technology for the Crash Stiffness Reduction. References. 6 VDM-Based Remodeling of Adaptive Structures Exposed to Impact Loads (Marcin Wiklo, Lukasz Jankowski, Malgorzata Mróz and Jan Holnicki-Szulc). 6.1 Material Redistribution in Elastic Structures. 6.1.1 VDM Formulation. 6.1.2 Sensitivity Analysis. 6.1.3 Numerical Testing Example. 6.2 Remodeling of Elastoplastic Structures. 6.2.1 VDM Formulation. 6.2.2 Sensitivity Analysis. 6.3 Adaptive Structures with Active Elements. 6.3.1 Stiffest Elastic Substructure. 6.3.2 Structural Fuses as Active Elements. 6.3.3 Comments. 6.4 Remodeling of Damped Elastic Structures. 6.4.1 Damping Model. 6.4.2 General VDM Formulation. 6.4.3 Specific Formulations and Sensitivity Analysis. References. 7 Adaptive Damping of Vibration by the Prestress Accumulation/Release Strategy (Arkadiusz Mróz, Anita Orlowska and Jan Holnicki-Szulc). 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Mass–Spring System. 7.2.1 The Concept. 7.2.2 Analytical Solution. 7.2.3 Case with Inertia of the Active Spring Considered. 7.3 Delamination of a Layered Beam. 7.3.1 PAR Strategy for Layered Beams. 7.3.2 Numerical Example of a Simply Supported Beam. 7.3.3 PAR – the VDM Formulation. 7.4 Experimental Verification. 7.4.1 Experimental Set-up. 7.4.2 Control Procedure. 7.4.3 Results. 7.5 Possible Applications. References. 8 Modeling and Analysis of Smart Technologies in Vibroacoustics (Tomasz G. Zielínski). 8.1 Introduction. 8.1.1 Smart Hybrid Approach in Vibroacoustics. 8.1.2 A Concept of an Active Composite Noise Absorber. 8.1.3 Physical Problems Involved and Relevant Theories. 8.1.4 General Assumptions and Some Remarks on Notation. 8.2 Biot’s Theory of Poroelasticity. 8.2.1 Isotropic Poroelasticity and the Two Formulations. 8.2.2 The Classical Displacement Formulation. 8.2.3 The Mixed Displacement–Pressure Formulation. 8.3 Porous and Poroelastic Material Data and Coefficients. 8.3.1 Porous Materials with a Rigid Frame. 8.3.2 Poroelastic Materials. 8.4 Weak Forms of Poroelasticity, Elasticity, Piezoelectricity and Acoustics. 8.4.1 Weak Form of the Mixed Formulation of Poroelasticity. 8.4.2 Weak Form for an Elastic Solid. 8.4.3 Weak Form of Piezoelectricity. 8.4.4 Weak Form for an Acoustic Medium. 8.5 Boundary Conditions for Poroelastic Medium. 8.5.1 The Boundary Integral. 8.5.2 Imposed Displacement Field. 8.5.3 Imposed Pressure Field. 8.6 Interface Coupling Conditions for Poroelastic and Other Media. 8.6.1 Poroelastic–Poroelastic Coupling. 8.6.2 Poroelastic–Elastic Coupling. 8.6.3 Poroelastic–Acoustic Coupling. 8.6.4 Acoustic–Elastic Coupling. 8.7 Galerkin Finite Element Model of a Coupled System of Piezoelectric, Elastic, Poroelastic and Acoustic Media. 8.7.1 A Coupled Multiphysics System. 8.7.2 Weak Form of the Coupled System. 8.7.3 Galerkin Finite Element Approximation. 8.7.4 Submatrices and Couplings in the Algebraic System. 8.8 Modeling of Poroelastic Layers with Mass Implants Improving Acoustic Absorption. 8.8.1 Motivation. 8.8.2 Two Approaches in Modeling Small Solid Implants. 8.8.3 Acoustic Absorption of the Poroelastic Layer. 8.8.4 Results of Analyses. 8.8.5 Concluding Remarks. 8.9 Designs of Active Elastoporoelastic Panels. 8.9.1 Introduction. 8.9.2 Active Sandwich Panel. 8.9.3 Active Single-Plate Panel. 8.10 Modeling and Analysis of an Active Single-Plate Panel. 8.10.1 Kinds and Purposes of Numerical Tests. 8.10.2 Plate Tests. 8.10.3 Multilayer Analysis. 8.10.4 Analysis of Passive Behavior of the Panel. 8.10.5 Test of Active Behavior of the Panel. 8.10.6 Concluding Remarks. References. Acknowledgements. Index.
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