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Book SynopsisReviews and reinforces concepts and techniques typical of a first statistics course with additional techniques useful to the IH/EHS practitioner.Table of ContentsPreface xv Acknowledgments xvii About the Author xix About the Companion Website xxi 1 Some Basic Concepts 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Physical versus Statistical Sampling 2 1.3 Representative Measures 3 1.4 Strategies for Representative Sampling 3 1.5 Measurement Precision 4 1.6 Probability Concepts 6 1.6.1 The Relative Frequency Approach 7 1.6.2 The Classical Approach – Probability Based on Deductive Reasoning 7 1.6.3 Subjective Probability 7 1.6.4 Complement of a Probability 7 1.6.5 Mutually Exclusive Events 8 1.6.6 Independent Events 8 1.6.7 Events that Are Not Mutually Exclusive 9 1.6.8 Marginal and Conditional Probabilities 9 1.6.9 Testing for Independence 11 1.7 Permutations and Combinations 12 1.7.1 Permutations for Sampling without Replacement 12 1.7.2 Permutations for Sampling with Replacement 13 1.7.3 Combinations 13 1.8 Introduction to Frequency Distributions 14 1.8.1 The Binomial Distribution 14 1.8.2 The Normal Distribution 16 1.8.3 The Chi-Square Distribution 20 1.9 Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing 22 1.10 Summary 23 1.11 Addendum: Glossary of Some Useful Excel Functions 23 1.12 Exercises 26 References 28 2 Descriptive Statistics and Methods of Presenting Data 29 2.1 Introduction 29 2.2 Quantitative Descriptors of Data and Data Distributions 29 2.3 Displaying Data with Frequency Tables 33 2.4 Displaying Data with Histograms and Frequency Polygons 34 2.5 Displaying Data Frequency Distributions with Cumulative Probability Plots 35 2.6 Displaying Data with NED and Q–Q Plots 38 2.7 Displaying Data with Box-and-Whisker Plots 41 2.8 Data Transformations to Achieve Normality 42 2.9 Identifying Outliers 43 2.10 What to Do with Censored Values? 45 2.11 Summary 45 2.12 Exercises 46 References 48 3 Analysis of Frequency Data 49 3.1 Introduction 49 3.2 Tests for Association and Goodness-of-Fit 50 3.2.1 r × c Contingency Tables and the Chi-Square Test 50 3.2.2 Fisher’s Exact Test 54 3.3 Binomial Proportions 55 3.4 Rare Events and the Poisson Distribution 57 3.4.1 Poisson Probabilities 57 3.4.2 Confidence Interval on a Poisson Count 60 3.4.3 Testing for Fit with the Poisson Distribution 61 3.4.4 Comparing Two Poisson Rates 62 3.4.5 Type I Error, Type II Error, and Power 64 3.4.6 Power and Sample Size in Comparing Two Poisson Rates 64 3.5 Summary 65 3.6 Exercises 66 References 69 4 Comparing Two Conditions 71 4.1 Introduction 71 4.2 Standard Error of the Mean 71 4.3 Confidence Interval on a Mean 72 4.4 The t-Distribution 73 4.5 Parametric One-Sample Test – Student’s t-Test 74 4.6 Two-Tailed versus One-Tailed Hypothesis Tests 76 4.7 Confidence Interval on a Variance 77 4.8 Other Applications of the Confidence Interval Concept in IH/EHS Work 79 4.8.1 OSHA Compliance Determinations 79 4.8.2 Laboratory Analyses – LOB, LOD, and LOQ 80 4.9 Precision, Power, and Sample Size for One Mean 81 4.9.1 Sample Size Required to Estimate a Mean with a Stated Precision 81 4.9.2 Sample Size Required to Detect a Specified Difference in Student’s t-Test 81 4.10 Iterative Solutions Using the Excel Goal Seek Utility 82 4.11 Parametric Two-Sample Tests 83 4.11.1 Confidence Interval for a Difference in Means: The Two-Sample t-Test 83 4.11.2 Two-Sample t-Test When Variances Are Equal 84 4.11.3 Verifying the Assumptions of the Two-Sample t-Test 85 4.11.3.1 Lilliefors Test for Normality 86 4.11.3.2 Shapiro–Wilk W-Test for Normality 87 4.11.3.3 Testing for Homogeneity of Variance 91 4.11.3.4 Transformations to Stabilize Variance 93 4.11.4 Two-Sample t-Test with Unequal Variances – Welch’s Test 93 4.11.5 Paired Sample t-Test 95 4.11.6 Precision, Power, and Sample Size for Comparing Two Means 96 4.12 Testing for Difference in Two Binomial Proportions 99 4.12.1 Testing a Binomial Proportion for Difference from a Known Value 100 4.12.2 Testing Two Binomial Proportions for Difference 100 4.13 Nonparametric Two-Sample Tests 102 4.13.1 Mann–Whitney U Test 102 4.13.2 Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test 104 4.13.3 McNemar and Binomial Tests for Paired Nominal Data 105 4.14 Summary 107 4.15 Exercises 107 References 111 5 Characterizing the Upper Tail of the Exposure Distribution 113 5.1 Introduction 113 5.2 Upper Tolerance Limits 113 5.3 Exceedance Fractions 115 5.4 Distribution Free Tolerance Limits 117 5.5 Summary 119 5.6 Exercises 119 References 121 6 One-Way Analysis of Variance 123 6.1 Introduction 123 6.2 Parametric One-Way ANOVA 123 6.2.1 How the Parametric ANOVA Works – Sums of Squares and the F-Test 124 6.2.2 Post hoc Multiple Pairwise Comparisons in Parametric ANOVA 127 6.2.2.1 Tukey’s Test 127 6.2.2.2 Tukey–Kramer Test 128 6.2.2.3 Dunnett’s Test for Comparing Means to a Control Mean 130 6.2.2.4 Planned Contrasts Using the Scheffé S Test 132 6.2.3 Checking the ANOVA Model Assumptions – NED Plots and Variance Tests 134 6.2.3.1 Levene’s Test 134 6.2.3.2 Bartlett’s Test 135 6.3 Nonparametric Analysis of Variance 136 6.3.1 Kruskal–Wallis Nonparametric One-Way ANOVA 137 6.3.2 Post hoc Multiple Pairwise Comparisons in Nonparametric ANOVA 139 6.3.2.1 Nemenyi’s Test 139 6.3.2.2 Bonferroni–Dunn Test 140 6.4 ANOVA Disconnects 142 6.5 Summary 144 6.6 Exercises 145 References 149 7 Two-Way Analysis of Variance 151 7.1 Introduction 151 7.2 Parametric Two-Way ANOVA 151 7.2.1 Two-Way ANOVA without Interaction 154 7.2.2 Checking for Homogeneity of Variance 154 7.2.3 Multiple Pairwise Comparisons When There Is No Interaction Term 154 7.2.4 Two-Way ANOVA with Interaction 156 7.2.5 Multiple Pairwise Comparisons with Interaction 158 7.2.6 Two-Way ANOVA without Replication 160 7.2.7 Repeated-Measures ANOVA 160 7.2.8 Two-Way ANOVA with Unequal Sample Sizes 162 7.3 Nonparametric Two-Way ANOVA 162 7.3.1 Rank Tests 162 7.3.1.1 The Rank Test 162 7.3.1.2 The Rank Transform Test 166 7.3.1.3 Other Options – Aligned Rank Tests 166 7.3.2 Repeated-Measures Nonparametric ANOVA – Friedman’s Test 166 7.3.2.1 Friedman’s Test without Replication 167 7.3.2.2 Multiple Comparisons for Friedman’s Test without Replication 169 7.3.2.3 Friedman’s Test with Replication 170 7.3.2.4 Multiple Comparisons for Friedman’s Test with Replication 172 7.4 More Powerful Non-ANOVA Approaches: Linear Modeling 172 7.5 Summary 172 7.6 Exercises 172 References 178 8 Correlation Analysis 181 8.1 Introduction 181 8.2 Simple Parametric Correlation Analysis 181 8.2.1 Testing the Correlation Coefficient for Significance 184 8.2.1.1 t-Test for Significance 185 8.2.1.2 F-Test for Significance 186 8.2.2 Confidence Limits on the Correlation Coefficient 186 8.2.3 Power in Simple Correlation Analysis 187 8.2.4 Comparing Two Correlation Coefficients for Difference 188 8.2.5 Comparing More Than Two Correlation Coefficients for Difference 189 8.2.6 Multiple Pairwise Comparisons of Correlation Coefficients 190 8.3 Simple Nonparametric Correlation Analysis 190 8.3.1 Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient 190 8.3.2 Testing Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient for Statistical Significance 191 8.3.3 Correction to Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient When There Are Tied Ranks 193 8.4 Multiple Correlation Analysis 195 8.4.1 Parametric Multiple Correlation 195 8.4.2 Nonparametric Multiple Correlation: Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance 195 8.5 Determining Causation 198 8.6 Summary 198 8.7 Exercises 198 References 204 9 Regression Analysis 205 9.1 Introduction 205 9.2 Linear Regression 205 9.2.1 Simple Linear Regression 207 9.2.2 Nonconstant Variance – Transformations and Weighted Least Squares Regression 209 9.2.3 Multiple Linear Regression 213 9.2.3.1 Multiple Regression in Excel 215 9.2.3.2 Multiple Regression Using the Excel Solver Utility 218 9.2.3.3 Multiple Regression Using Advanced Software Packages 221 9.2.4 Using Regression for Factorial ANOVA with Unequal Sample Sizes 222 9.2.5 Multiple Correlation Analysis Using Multiple Regression 227 9.2.5.1 Assumptions of Parametric Multiple Correlation 233 9.2.5.2 Options When Collinearity Is a Problem 233 9.2.6 Polynomial Regression 234 9.2.7 Interpreting Linear Regression Results 234 9.2.8 Linear Regression versus ANOVA 235 9.3 Logistic Regression 235 9.3.1 Odds and Odds Ratios 236 9.3.2 The Logit Transformation 238 9.3.3 The Likelihood Function 240 9.3.4 Logistic Regression in Excel 240 9.3.5 Likelihood Ratio Test for Significance of MLE Coefficients 241 9.3.6 Odds Ratio Confidence Limits in Multivariate Models 243 9.4 Poisson Regression 243 9.4.1 Poisson Regression Model 243 9.4.2 Poisson Regression in Excel 244 9.5 Regression with Excel Add-ons 245 9.6 Summary 246 9.7 Exercises 246 References 252 10 Analysis of Covariance 253 10.1 Introduction 253 10.2 The Simple ANCOVA Model and Its Assumptions 253 10.2.1 Required Regressions 255 10.2.2 Checking the ANCOVA Assumptions 258 10.2.2.1 Linearity, Independence, and Normality 258 10.2.2.2 Similar Variances 258 10.2.2.3 Equal Regression Slopes 258 10.2.3 Testing and Estimating the Treatment Effects 259 10.3 The Two-Factor Covariance Model 261 10.4 Summary 261 10.5 Exercises 261 Reference 263 11 Experimental Design 265 11.1 Introduction 265 11.2 Randomization 266 11.3 Simple Randomized Experiments 266 11.4 Experimental Designs Blocking on Categorical Factors 267 11.5 Randomized Full Factorial Experimental Design 270 11.6 Randomized Full Factorial Design with Blocking 271 11.7 Split Plot Experimental Designs 272 11.8 Balanced Experimental Designs – Latin Square 273 11.9 Two-Level Factorial Experimental Designs with Quantitative Factors 274 11.9.1 Two-Level Factorial Designs for Exploratory Studies 274 11.9.2 The Standard Order 275 11.9.3 Calculating Main Effects 276 11.9.4 Calculating Interactions 278 11.9.5 Estimating Standard Errors 278 11.9.6 Estimating Effects with REGRESSION in Excel 279 11.9.7 Interpretation 280 11.9.8 Cube, Surface, and NED Plots as an Aid to Interpretation 280 11.9.9 Fractional Factorial Two-Level Experiments 282 11.10 Summary 282 11.11 Exercises 283 References 284 12 Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis 285 12.1 Introduction 285 12.2 Simulation Modeling 285 12.2.1 Propagation of Errors 286 12.2.2 Simple Bounding 287 12.2.2.1 Sums and Differences 287 12.2.2.2 Products and Ratios 287 12.2.2.3 Powers 289 12.2.3 Addition in Quadrature 289 12.2.3.1 Sums and Differences 289 12.2.3.2 Products and Ratios 290 12.2.3.3 Powers 292 12.2.4 LOD and LOQ Revisited – Dust Sample Gravimetric Analysis 292 12.3 Uncertainty Analysis 295 12.4 Sensitivity Analysis 296 12.4.1 One-at-a-Time (OAT) Analysis 296 12.4.2 Variance-Based Analysis 297 12.5 Further Reading on Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis 297 12.6 Monte Carlo Simulation 297 12.7 Monte Carlo Simulation in Excel 298 12.7.1 Generating Random Numbers in Excel 298 12.7.2 The Populated Spreadsheet Approach 299 12.7.3 Monte Carlo Simulation Using VBA Macros 299 12.8 Summary 303 12.9 Exercises 303 References 307 13 Bayes’ Theorem and Bayesian Decision Analysis 309 13.1 Introduction 309 13.2 Bayes’ Theorem 310 13.3 Sensitivity, Specificity, and Positive and Negative Predictive Value in Screening Tests 310 13.4 Bayesian Decision Analysis in Exposure Control Banding 312 13.4.1 Introduction to BDA 312 13.4.2 The Prior Distribution and the Parameter Space 314 13.4.3 The Posterior Distribution and Likelihood Function 314 13.4.4 Relative Influences of the Prior and the Data 315 13.4.5 Frequentist versus Bayesian Perspectives 316 13.5 Exercises 316 References 318 A z-Tables of the Standard Normal Distribution 321 B Critical Values of the Chi-Square Distribution 327 C Critical Values for the t-Distribution 329 D Critical Values for Lilliefors Test 331 Reference 332 E Shapiro–Wilk W Test 𝜶 Coefficients and Critical Values 333 Reference 336 F Critical Values of the F Distribution for 𝜶 = 0.05 337 G Critical U Values for the Mann–Whitney U Test 341 Reference 342 H Critical Wilcoxon Matched Pairs Test t Values 343 Reference 344 I K Values for Upper Tolerance Limits 345 Reference 346 J Exceedance Fraction 95% Lower Confidence Limit versus Z 347 Reference 347 K q Values for Tukey’s, Tukey–Kramer, and Nemenyi’s MSD Tests 349 L q′ Values for Dunnett’s Test 351 Reference 353 M Q Values for the Bonferroni–Dunn MSD Test 355 N Critical Spearman Rank Correlation Test Values 357 O Critical Values of Kendall’s W 359 Reference 361 Index 363

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Book SynopsisThe Irishman is great art . . . but it is not, as we know, great history . . . Frank Sheeran . . . surely didn't kill Hoffa . . . But who pulled the trigger? . . . For some of the real story, and for a great American tale in itself, you want to go to Jack Goldsmith's book, In Hoffa's Shadow. Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street JournalIn Hoffa's Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-examination of the Hoffa case . . . a monumental achievement. James Rosen, The Wall Street JournalAs a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O'Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa's disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith was serving as assistant attorney general in the George W. Bus

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Hillman Prize for Book JournalismA groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty workthe work that society considers essential but morally compromisedDrone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the kill floors of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs. As Press shows, we are increasingly shielded and distanced from an array of morally questionable activities that other, less privileged people perform in our name.The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn unprecedented attention to essential workers, and to the health and safety risks to which workers in prisons and slaughterhouses are exposed. But Dirty Work examine

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Book SynopsisA comparative historical study of the rise of teacher power and the state in France and the United StatesTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I The Puzzle of Turn-of-the-Century Teachers’ Politics1 Teachers, Politics, and the State2 Centralization, Mobilization, and Selective EngagementPART II Centralizing Education and Mobilizing Teachers3 Centralizing Public Education and Teachers’ Politics in Nineteenth-Century France4 Centralization and Its Discontents among New York City TeachersPART III The Politics of Selective Engagement5 Selective Engagement and Teachers’ Politics in France, 1887–19506 Selective Engagement and Teachers’ Politics in New York City, 1920–1960PART IV Conclusion7 Marianne and Uncle Sam RevisitedNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally recognized writers on academic labor, offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the current role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for the future of higher education.Trade Review"It studies NYU specifically and universities in general, offering a solid reassessment of corporate growth in higher education, while exploring how to fight for better universities through collective action. Blessedly free of jargon and unforgiving in its critique, this book speaks powerfully to any faculty member interested in retaining academic freedom, shared governance, dignity on the job, or just the job itself... thought-provoking." Academe "[A] set of thoughtful reflections by strike proponents about the corporate university... The University Against Itself is at its best precisely when the authors capture the continuing tension between the academic and corporate characteristics of the emerging corporate academy." The Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Jan 2009 "Although these are not the first labor or social movement examinations to generate predictive analyses, existing literatures remain relatively sparse, and therefore, these pieces constitute a welcome addition to a growing body of work, particularly in terms of expanding research in the areas of movement repertoire and tactical innovation. In sum, I highly recommend this thoughtfully organized and well-written volume for the relevant conversations it includes as well as the ones it will inspire for people interested in the labor movement and/or higher education." - Contemporary Sociology January 2010Table of ContentsThe University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace Edited by Monika Krause, Mary Nolan, Michael Palm and Andrew Ross Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Corporate University?Ashley Dawson and Penny Lewis, NYC: Academic Labor Town? Ellen Schrecker, Academic Freedom in the Age of CasualizationMary Nolan, A Leadership University for the Twenty-first Century? Corporate Administration, Contingent labor, and the Erosion of Faculty RightsChristopher Newfield and Greg Grandin, Building a Statue of Smoke: The NYU Trustees, Finance Culture, and the Demotion of Intellectual LaborStephen Duncombe and Sarah Nash, ICE From the Ashes of FIRE: NYU and the Economy of Culture in New York CityAdam Green, The High Cost of Learning: Tuition, Educational Aid, and the New Economics of Prestige in Higher EducationMicki McGee, Blue Team, Gray Team: Some Varieties of the Contingent Faculty ExperiencePart II: GSOC StrikeUnions at NYU, 1971-2007Susan Valentine, The Administration Strikes Back: Union Busting at NYUSteve Fletcher, “Bad News for Academic Labor? Lessons in Media Strategy from the GSOC StrikeMaggie Clinton, Miabi Chatterji, Sherene Seikaly, Natasha Lightfoot, Naomi Schiller, “If Not Now, When? Lessons Learned from GSOC's 2005-6 Strike”Jeff Goodwin, faculty Andrew Cornell, Undergraduate Participation in Campus Labor Coalitions: Lessons from the NYU StrikeMatthew Osypowski (with Adam Graham Silverman), Operation Class-move Part III: Lessons for the FutureThe State of the Academic Labor Movement: A Roundtable with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Bowen and Ed Ott, Moderated by Kitty KrupatAndrew Ross, Global UMonika Krause, and Michael Palm, Activists into organizers! How to Work with Your Colleagues and Build Power in Graduate School Gordon Lafer , Sorely Needed: A Corporate Campaign for the Corporate UniversityCary Nelson, Graduate Employee Unionization and the Future of Academic Labor

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Book SynopsisIn The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa E. Paul Durrenberger recounts the transformation of Iowa's family farms into today's agricultural industry through the lens of the lives and writings of Iowa novelist Paul Corey and poet Ruth Lechlitner. This anthropological biography analyzes Corey's fiction, Lechlitner's poetry, and their professional and personal correspondence to offer a new perspective on an era (19251947) that saw the collapse and remaking of capitalism in the United States, the rise of communism in the Soviet Union, the rise and defeat of fascism around the world, and the creation of a continuous warfare state in America. Durrenberger tells the story that Corey aimed to record and preserve of the industrialization of Iowa's agriculture and the death of its family farms. He analyzes Corey's regionalist focus on Iowa farming and regionalism's contemporaneous association in Europe with rising fascism. He explores Corey's adoption of naturalism, evident in his resistance to heroes and villains, to plot structure and resolution, and to moral judgment, as well as his ethnographic tendency to focus on groups rather than individuals. An unusual and wide-ranging study, The Dawn of Industrial Agriculture in Iowa offers important insight into the relationships among fiction, individual lives, and anthropological practice, as well as into a pivotal period in American history.

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Book SynopsisFor more than one hundred years, people have come to the Ludlow Massacre Memorial site to remember the dead, to place themselves within a larger narrative of labor history, and to learn about what occurred there. Communities of Ludlow reveals the perseverance, memory, and work that has been done to enrich and share the narratives of the people of Ludlow and the experiences of those who commemorate it. The history of the Ludlow Massacre encompasses the stories of immigrant groups, women, the working-class, and people of color as much as the story of that tragedy, and the continued relevance of these issues creates a need for remembrance and discussion of how to make the events of the Ludlow Massacre available to contemporary society. The book outlines recent efforts to remember and commemorate this important historical event, documenting the unique collaborations in public scholarship and outreach among the diverse group of people involved in marking the 100-year anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre. The chapters relate the tales of the stewards of the Ludlow Massacrethe various communities that rallied together to keep this history alive and show its relevance, including lineal descendants, members of the United Mine Workers of America, historians, archaeologists, scholars, artists, interpreters, authors, playwrights, and politicians. The book also offers tips, strategies, and cautionary tales for practicing engaged public scholarship. The history of the Ludlow Massacre has been told as a tragedy of striking miners in the West that occurred during a turbulent time in US labor relations, but it is so much more than that. Communities of Ludlow explores the intersections of public scholarship, advocacy, and personal experience, weaving these perspectives together with models for practicing public scholarship to illustrate the power of creating spaces for sharing ideas and information in an environment that encourages creativity, open dialogue, public outreach, political action, and alternative narratives. Contributors: Robert Butero, Robin Henry, Michael Jacobson, Elizabeth Jameson, Linda Linville, Matthew Maher, Yolanda Romero

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Book SynopsisHow does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training – including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training – but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led a mass workers’ struggle in the United States, captured the nation’s imagination and came to symbolize the struggle of workers throughout the country when the labor movement as a whole was in decline during the conservative, pro-business 1920s. Although the strike was defeated, many of the methods and tactics of the Passaic strike presaged the struggles for industrial unions a decade later in the Great Depression. Trade Review"I have focused as a labor history scholar for almost twenty-five years, and I feel The Red Thread represents the highest standards of scholarship in the field, and is especially interesting for the new ground it covers on the development of radical politics and class consciousness in the Garden State before the Great Depression--a period which is too often overlooked."— Francis Ryan, editor of The Memoirs of Wendell W. Young III: A Life in Philadelphia Labor and Politics “Zumoff’s well-researched study effectively uses the Passaic strike to highlight the radical possibilities of workers’ 1920s struggles. The book is a timely consideration of a popular strike in a conservative political moment and will be of interest to undergraduates, graduate students and the general public interested in labour, radicalism, and capitalism.” — Randi Storch, Labour History "The Red Thread’s most impressive feature is its rich amount of archival research....A compelling account of Passaic in 1926 and those whose lives were transformed by the strike. Zumoff ’s major contribution to the historiography of this event is his central positioning of cp materials when analyzing the development of the strike which com- pel the reader to consider the cp’s spirited willingness to organize oppressed American workers established unions preferred to ignore." — Journal of Labor and Society "Red Thread is a riveting deep-dive into that history. Let us hope our upsurge is coming. We have work to do to prepare."— Tempest "Jacob A. Zumoff pulls the story of one of New Jersey's longest work stoppages from the historical shadows."— New Jersey Monthly "Offers a fresh perspective and a 'synthetic' history of the 1926 textile workers strike in Passaic, New Jersey....Zumoff’s microstudy of industrial work and organizing is rich and nuanced. His central narrative thread is the leading role of the Communist Party. Zumoff aptly demonstrates how the party dispatched to Passaic talented and driven organizers.... Historians of American labor and movements will take a particular interest in Zumoff’s discussion of the party’s fundraising initiatives and its use of new forms of media."— NJ Studies "Zumoff’s work is an important addition to the history of both the American labor movement and the history of the American Left. Zumoff has combed monographs, manuscripts, and memoirs to develop a rich historical narrative of the 1926 Passaic Strike, its origins, its aftermath, and larger meaning."— Norman Markowitz, Professor of History, Rutgers University "Red Thread is a sobering study on the reality of police brutality and repression against workers (the history of the nineteenth and early twentieth century tends to show that if you’re wondering why workers in the United States put up with such terrible conditions, violence and terrorism from the ruling class can never be ruled out)....Zumoff argues convincingly that Communist organizing was not the cause of the strike’s defeat; rather, Communist activism allowed the strike to go on for as long as it did. He rightly refrains from spinning the defeat as a victory — in fact, he criticizes the Communists for doing this — nor does Zumoff try too hard to explain the defeat. It’s common for strikes to fail."— Jacobin Magazine "Jacob Zumoff on The Red Thread; the Passaic Textile Strike," by Rosemary Feurer— The Labor and Working-Class History Association "As a Northern New Jerseyan (not a Jerseyite) with an interest in labor history, I knew about the 1913 Paterson Silk Workers Strike, and the involvement therewith of the 'Wobblies,' back when Paterson was 'Silk City.' Now, thanks to author Jacob A. Zumoff, I know about the context, the events, and the consequences of another radical-tinged strike in my home territory, the Passaic Textile Strike of 1926, which shut down the Botany and Forstmann woolen mills, and others, in Passaic and nearby towns for a year."— Work History News "Zumoff’s The Red Thread, well researched and accessibly written, will serve as Passaic’s epitaph for the foreseeable future. But the meaning of the strike itself, as he suggests, is anything but dead. It is very much with us now. Workers today face difficulties in the transformation of capitalist work and in the ideological war waged against them, not unlike that of the 1920s. How they fight, with whom they ally, and the nature of the leadership they embrace will determine outcomes that take us into the future. Rethinking what happened in Passaic, for which this study is essential reading, will be useful in addressing such considerations. The past is never entirely dead, and its lessons, even as they are revealed in defeats like Passaic, can inform and inspire the present, even help chart the course to a better future." — Bryan D. Palmer, Labour / Le Travail "Building Solidarity: The Passaic Textile Strike (1926 Film)," by Jacob Zumoff— LAWCHATable of Contents Illustrations Abbreviations Used in Text Introduction: The Passaic Textile Strike of 1926 1 Passaic, New Jersey 2 The Strike Begins 3 The Communist Party and the Start of the Passaic Strike 4 Bringing Passaic to the Labor Movement 5 Enter the Politicians 6 Repression and Class-Struggle Defense 7 Building Relief and Solidarity 8 Women, the Family, and the Passaic Strike 9 The End of the Strike 10 After the Strike Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent media and communication strategy. Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella argues that activist media create opportunities for activists to navigate conflict and embrace their political and ideological differences. Canella details how activist media practices—interviewing organizers, script writing, video editing, posting on social media, and hosting community screenings—foster solidarity among grassroots organizers. Informed by media theory, this book explores how activists are using media to mobilize supporters, communicate their values, and reject anti-union rhetoric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how collaborative media projects can help activists build broad-based coalitions and amplify their vision for a more equitable and just society. Trade Review"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY *"Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." -- Victor Pickard * author of Democracy Without Journalism *"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike." -- Alexandra Juhasz * Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY *"Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." -- Victor Pickard * author of Democracy Without Journalism *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Activist Media, Power, and Networked Publics2 Movements and Media: Structures and Evolution3 Pre-production: Embracing Confrontation and Difference4 Production: Scripting Solidarity and Radical Storytelling5 Post-production: Distribution, Exhibition, and ImpactConclusionAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisNow more than ever, activists are using media to document injustice and promote social and political change. Yet with so many media platforms available, activists sometimes fail to have a coherent media and communication strategy. Drawing from his experiences as a documentary filmmaker with Black Lives Matter 5280 and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 105 in Denver, Colorado, Gino Canella argues that activist media create opportunities for activists to navigate conflict and embrace their political and ideological differences. Canella details how activist media practices—interviewing organizers, script writing, video editing, posting on social media, and hosting community screenings—foster solidarity among grassroots organizers. Informed by media theory, this book explores how activists are using media to mobilize supporters, communicate their values, and reject anti-union rhetoric. Furthermore, it demonstrates how collaborative media projects can help activists build broad-based coalitions and amplify their vision for a more equitable and just society. Trade Review"Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike."— Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNY "Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." — Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism "Drawing on firsthand experience as an activist filmmaker, Canella has written an invaluable account of grassroots empowerment and social change. This book provides an essential analysis for scholars of media activism and for anyone who believes we can and must fight for a better world." — Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism "Activist Media is an exemplary piece of activist scholarship. With detail, Gino Canella considers how media co-creation as scholarly political work both uplifts and deconstructs representations, research methods, and human relations between scholars and activists creating “grassroots epistemologies” and “radical sociability” from which we can all learn. The book serves as a great how-to for scholars and activists alike."— Alexandra Juhasz, Distinguished Professor of Film, Brooklyn College, CUNYTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Activist Media, Power, and Networked Publics 2 Movements and Media: Structures and Evolution 3 Pre-production: Embracing Confrontation and Difference 4 Production: Scripting Solidarity and Radical Storytelling 5 Post-production: Distribution, Exhibition, and Impact Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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