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Book Anaconda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laurie Mercier
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780252069888
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Anaconda written by Laurie Mercier and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercier depicts the vibrant life of the smelter city at full steam, incorporating the candid, sometimes wry commentary of the locals ("the company furnished three pair of leather gloves . . . and all the arsenic dust] you could eat"). She documents the early history of the town and the distinctive culture of cooperation and activism that residents fostered in the 1930s and 1940s. Ultimately, their solidarity and discontent with the company converged in the successful 1934 strike and sustained five decades of devoted unionism. During the cold war years, Anacondans held to their communal values and to unions in the face of antilabor and anticommunist pressures, embracing an "alternative Americanism" that championed improved living standards for working people, rather than unlimited corporate power, as the best defense against communism. Mercier chronicles the bitter struggle between two rival unions--the anticommunist United Steelworkers of America and the red-tainted International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers--that undercut the town's labor solidarity in the postwar years. She also explores how gender definitions--especially the male breadwinner ideology and the limits placed on women's political, economic, and social roles--shaped the nature and outcome of labor struggles. Mercier carries her investigation through the closing of the smelter in 1980, covering debates over the environment and the community's transformation into a deindustrialized, nonunion town. Underscoring the role of the community in molding working-class consciousness, Anaconda offers important insights about the changing nature of working-class culture and the real potential for collective action under the midday sun of American industrial capitalism.

Book Official Register of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies Auxiliary in America

Download or read book Official Register of the Ancient Order of Hibernians and Ladies Auxiliary in America written by Ancient Order of Hibernians in America and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 796 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Irish Research

Download or read book Irish Research written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume fills a conspicuous gap in the literature by providing the first resource guide devoted solely to Irish research collections located on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Organized geographically, the book covers the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland and provides comprehensive information about significant Irish collections in such areas as literature, history, current events, biography, Celtic studies, and the arts. Fully indexed and cross referenced, the guide will enable researchers to discover what is available and where it is located, systematically plan itineraries for visiting collections, and better determine duplication among collections.

Book Imperial Hearst

Download or read book Imperial Hearst written by Ferdinand Lundberg and published by ibooks. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearst’s journalistic ethics were probably never more clearly exposed than during the national election campaign of 1936. It is true that eighty per cent of the newspapers in the United States spread slanders and calumnies against the President. But the Hearst organs pulled all the stops and thundered vilification with all the resources at their command. The President was portrayed as a lunatic, a wastrel arid a cartoonist’s version of a frothing Communist. Picture and text described him and his advisers as dangerously radical, malicious and altogether feeble-minded. The Hearst press did not hesitate to attribute the source of Roosevelt’s social legislation to Moscow. Nor did consistency deter Hearst from charging plagiarism from Hitler and Mussolini. His newspapers shouted denunciation and abuse. Sound familiar? This work is the only complete exposition of the financial, political and social results of the career of William Randolph Hearst.

Book The Catholic Pattern

Download or read book The Catholic Pattern written by Thomas Francis Woodlock and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constitutions and By laws

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  • Author : Inter-collegiate cross-country association of amateur athletes of America
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Constitutions and By laws written by Inter-collegiate cross-country association of amateur athletes of America and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Adventures with Your Money

Download or read book My Adventures with Your Money written by George Graham Rice and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898

Download or read book History of the Trans Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898 written by James B. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Why Forgive

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  • Author : Johann Christoph Arnold
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-05-25
  • ISBN : 9780874869422
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Why Forgive written by Johann Christoph Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and expanded edition of Arnold's book 'Seventy times seven' (Plough 1997).

Book Dead Men Flying

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  • Author : Patrick Henry Brady
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781942475606
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Dead Men Flying written by Patrick Henry Brady and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of one of the most dangerous aviation operations during the Vietnam War, call-sign Dust Off, in which air ambulances speaheaded the humanitarian efforts that were being executed during the war.

Book Who s Who of American Women  1997 1998

Download or read book Who s Who of American Women 1997 1998 written by Marquis Who's Who and published by . This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN is the one essential reference to depend on for accurate & detailed facts on American women of achievement. This new edition includes in-depth biographical profiles of prominent, accomplished women.

Book The Other Civil War

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  • Author : Howard Zinn
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2011-03-15
  • ISBN : 006207900X
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book The Other Civil War written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Civil War offers historian and activist Howard Zinn's view of the social and civil background of the American Civil War—a view that is rarely provided in standard historical texts. Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, this set of essays recounts the history of American labor, free and not free, in the years leading up to and during the Civil War. He offers an alternative yet necessary account of that terrible nation-defining epoch.

Book A People s History of the United States

Download or read book A People s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "brilliant and moving history of the American people" ("Library Journal") presents more than 500 years of American social and cultural history, going well beyond the wars and presidencies contained in traditional texts to tell the stories of working men and women. Abridged for use in the classroom.

Book Libraries of the United States and Canada

Download or read book Libraries of the United States and Canada written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crocker Langley San Francisco Directory

Download or read book Crocker Langley San Francisco Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 2104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A People s History of the United States

Download or read book A People s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.