Download or read book Rebel Rank and File written by Aaron Brenner and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often considered irredeemably conservative, the US working class actually has a rich history of revolt. Rebel Rank and File uncovers the hidden story of insurgency from below against employers and union bureaucrats in the late 1960s and 1970s. From the mid-1960s to 1981, rank-and-file workers in the United States engaged in a level of sustained militancy not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. Millions participated in one of the largest strike waves in US history. There were 5,716 stoppages in 1970 alone, involving more than 3 million workers. Contract rejections, collective insubordination, sabotage, organized slowdowns, and wildcat strikes were the order of the day. Workers targeted much of their activity at union leaders, forming caucuses to fight for more democratic and combative unions that would forcefully resist the mounting offensive from employers that appeared at the end of the postwar economic boom. It was a remarkable era in the history of US class struggle, one rich in lessons for today's labor movement.

Download or read book Crossed Wires written by Dan Schiller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-17 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century. Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.

Download or read book Civic Labors written by Dennis A. Deslippe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor studies scholars and working-class historians have long worked at the crossroads of academia and activism. The essays in this collection examine the challenges and opportunities for engaged scholarship in the United States and abroad. A diverse roster of contributors discuss how participation in current labor and social struggles guides their campus and community organizing, public history initiatives, teaching, mentoring, and other activities. They also explore the role of research and scholarship in social change, while acknowledging that intellectual labor complements but never replaces collective action and movement building. Contributors: Kristen Anderson, Daniel E. Atkinson, James R. Barrett, Susan Roth Breitzer, Susan Chandler, Sam Davies, Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Colin Gordon, Michael Innis-Jiménez, Stephanie Luce, Joseph A. McCartin, John W. McKerley, Matthew M. Mettler, Stephen Meyer, David Montgomery, Kim E. Nielsen, Peter Rachleff, Ralph Scharnau, Jennifer Sherer, Shelton Stromquist, Emily E. LB. Twarog, and John Williams-Searle.

Download or read book Race on the Line written by Venus Green and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A labor history of women workers in the early years of the telephone industry.

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Download or read book Rank and file Rebellion written by Aaron Brenner and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the upsurge of working class militancy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when American union workers engaged in an extraordinary level of rank-and-file activism. An investigation among three groups of workers -- postal workers, communications workers, and teamsters, demonstrates how changes on the job and in the union stimulated and retarded union workers' organization.

Download or read book The Making of Telephone Unionism 1920 1947 written by John N. Schacht and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Oral History Collections written by Alan M. Meckler and published by New York : Bowker. This book was released on 1975 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Hard Times written by Studs Terkel and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review). In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times). “Hard Times doesn’t ‘render’ the time of the depression—it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.” —Arthur Miller “Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.” —Newsweek “Open Studs Terkel’s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.” —The National Observer

Download or read book Solidarity and Survival written by Shelton Stromquist and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Solidarity and Survival, three generations of Iowa workers tell of their unrelenting efforts to create a labor movement in the coal mines and on the rails, in packinghouses and farm equipment plants, on construction sites and in hospital wards. Drawing on nearly one thousand interviews collected over more than a decade by oral historians working for the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Shelton Stromquist presents the resonant voices of the men and women who defined a new, prominent place for themselves in the lives of their communities and in the politics of their state.

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Download or read book Labor History Archives in the United States written by Daniel J. Leab and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduction. 9. . Labor Archives and Collections in the United States. 12. . Labor Holdings at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. 18. . Labor Material in the Collections of the Museum of American Textile History. 27. . Labor History Sources at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 33. . The Connecticut Labor Archives. 41. . Sources for Business and Labor History in the Bridgeport Public Library. 46. . Labor History Resources at New York University. 50. 1.). The Tamiment Institute/ Ben Josephson Library. . 2.). The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. . . Labor Archives in the University at Albany, State University of New York. 61. . Sources on Labor History in the Martin P. Catherwood Library. 67. . Sources on Labor History at the Rockefeller Archive Center. 75. . Labor History Resources at the Rutgers University Libraries. 83. . Labor Collections at the Urban Archives Center, Temple University Libraries. 87. . Labor Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 93. . Historical Collections and Labor Archives, Penn State University. 97. . The UE/Labor Archives, University of Pittsburgh. 102. . Labor History Sources in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. 105. . Labor History Sources in the National Archives. 114. . Labor and Social History Records at the Catholic University of America Nelson Lichtenstein. 121. . The Joseph A. Beirne Memorial Archives. 125. . Labor Union History and Archives: The University of Maryland at College Park Libraries. 129. . The George Meany Memorial Archives. 133. . West Virginia Labor Sources at the West Virginia and Regional History Collection. 140. . The Southern Labor Archives. 146. . Labor History Resources at the Ohio Historical Society. 155. . The Debs Collection at Indiana State University. 161. . The Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University. 167. . The Labadie Collection in the University of Michigan Library. 177. . Labor History Manuscripts in the Chicago Historical Society. 185. . The Ozarks Labor Union Archives at Southwest Missouri State University. 190. . Labor History Resources in the University of Iowa Libraries, the State Historical Society of Iowa/Iowa City, and the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. 195. . Sources for the Study of the Labor Movement at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. 203. . The Immigration History Research Center as a Source for Labor History Research. 212. . Labor Collections in the Western Historical Collections, at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 219. . Labor Resources at the Nevada State Library and Archives. 224. . The Texas Labor Archives. 229. . Sources on Labor History at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. 235. . The Urban Archives Center at California State University, Northridge. 240. . The Labor Archives and Research Center at San Francisco State University. 248. . Index. 257.

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