Download or read book The Newspaper Worker 1906 written by James McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Newspaper Worker, 1906: Designed for All Who Write, but Especially Addressed to the Reporter Who May Have Only a Vague Notion of the Aims, Scope and Requirements of His Profession Ramsay in his Life of Washington notes the remarkable fact that men on the patriotic side in the American Revolution, who could scarcely write their names when the struggle with the mother country began, were capable at its close of producing letters that practiced, educated writers need not be ashamed to acknowledge. This is a striking, historic instance of what perseverance, intelligently directed, may accomplish. These men had to write so their language would be understood and admit of none save an exact interpretation. They wrote with care, and with strict attention to accuracy. They wasted no time on frills or cheap attempts at ornament They learned almost intuitively to call things by their right names, and they avoided ambiguity because they knew that a misinterpretation of their meaning might lead to disaster and ruin. There can be no manner of doubt that these almost unlettered patriots carefully read over and freely criticized what they wrote, and that they became exact and explicit in expressing themselves, through sheer necessity of occasions. Washington was himself in the strictest sense of the word a self-educated man. He lost his father at an early age and his days in school were so few that he began life without so much as a rudimentary knowledge of English grammar. Bancroft, the historian, dealing with this period of Washington's life, remarks that the great liberator applied himself with care to everything that he undertook and that his preserved papers show how he almost imperceptibly gained the power of writing correctly and of "expressing himself with clearness and directness, often with felicity of language and grace." These are by no means isolated examples. Journalism can show equally remarkable instances of good, graphic writers developing out of crude, unpromising material. A case in point: An ambitious young man of little or no education who had tried successively driving team, soliciting life insurance and even bartending, became possessed with the belief that newspaper work is ideal and that through it he could achieve his aim in life. He obtained a position on a daily newspaper in one of the inland New England cities. The first story that he wrote had concern with a street fight for which the supposed aggressor was arrested. In writing the story the new reporter had such expressions as this: "The prizoneer i witnizzis sae was not at fawlt. His nabors give him a gud nahn." Andrew Carnegie and his spelling reformers might have hailed him as brother, but the city editor decided that the new man had missed his vocation and frankly told him so. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bulletin written by Scranton Public Library (Scranton, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Workers and Nationalism written by Jakub S. Beneš and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how nationalism spread among industrial workers in central Europe in the twentieth century, addressing the far-reaching effects, including the democratization of Austrian politics, the collapse of internationalist socialist solidarity before World War I, and the twentieth-century triumph of Social Democracy in much of Europe.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Haverhill Public Library written by Haverhill Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg written by Rosa Luxemburg and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements-Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht-who were among her closest friends, lovers and colleagues. Many of these letters appear for the first time in English translation; all help to illuminate the inner life of this iconic revolutionary, who was at once an economic and social theorist, a political activist and a lyrical stylist. Her political concerns are revealed alongside her personal struggles within a socialist movement that was often hostile to independently minded women. This collection will provide readers with a newer and deeper appreciation of Luxemburg as a writer and historical figure.
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Download or read book Hooliganism written by Joan Neuberger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between classes, society's failure to "civilize" the poor, the desperation of the destitute, and the proliferation of violence in public spaces.
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Download or read book Temporary Work written by Leah F. Vosko and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It explores how, and to what extent, temporary work is becoming the norm for a diverse group of workers in the labour market, taking gender as the central lens of analysis.".
Download or read book The Miners of Windber written by Mildred Beik and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1996-08-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
