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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Gadsden"”.
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A History of the United Rubber Workers in Gadsden, Alabama, 1936-1943.
Organized labor entered the 20th century full of hope. Labor leaders had become convinced, through such violent struggles as the Pullman Strike, that more peaceful means must be found to settle labor-management disputes. Many industrial leaders had also become aware of the economic and political …
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Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens: The parallel lives of two American patriots
… each other in colonial Charleston, Christopher Gadsden and Henry Laurens shared similar social and economic backgrounds and became close friends. This friendship deepened during the 1750s, as the two young men pursued similar social and intellectual interests and rose into the Charleston …
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The Discursive Commons: The Establishment, "Outside Agitators," And "Communist Subversives" In Gadsden's Depression-Era Political Environment
… and often violent political environment in Gadsden, Alabama during the Great Depression. Using a theoretical construct called the discursive commons my analysis suggests how very particular ideas such as the trope of the outside agitator, and the idea of the communist radical, were used by …
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
… Compromise of 1850 to the Pacific Railroad and Gadsden Purchase. The people of the Southern states responded to these national issues of westward expansion from 1845 to 1853 as Americans. And as Americans, the partisan differences between Whig and Democrat and the regional conflict between …
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Smoke in a Bottle: Adolescent Literacies and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in an Urban Catholic High School
… 2011b; Christenbury, Bomer, & Smagorinsky, 2011; Gadsden & Dixon-Roman, 2016; Gutiérrez & Penuel, 2014), responses that neglect the impact of culture on learning (Hollins, 2015). This study uses a humanizing, critical ethnographic perspective (Paris & Winn, 2013; Street, 1984) and participant …
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Vault SEED Homeschool to build racial and intellectual identity : a qualitative case study.
… more than any other group (Collins-White, 2018; Gadsden, 2017; Jay, 2009; Shelton, 2021; Vandivier, 2018). Black teachers' underrepresentation also poses issues for Black youth within public school spaces (Rocque & Paternoster, 2011). Because of the deep cultural connections shared, Black …
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The Economics Of Gasoline Regulation: Price Impacts And Consumer Costs Of Environmental Air Quality Programs
This research examines economic impacts of two gasoline regulations designed to combat tropospheric ozone pollution. I construct several fixed effects econometric models to assess impacts of reformulated gasoline and low volatility gasoline on retail gasoline prices and consumer costs. I estimate …
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Knowledge Deficits in Manufacturing and Their Effects on New Employees
The purpose of this study was to explore the learning experiences of new employees and the influence that knowledge deficits have on their performance and on safety within an organization that is experiencing a massive loss of knowledge due to downsizing, attrition, and turnover. There were three …
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Urban-Rural Disparities in Access to Covid-19 Testing Sites: The Impact of Funding Cuts in the Capital Region of Florida
… Leon, Wakulla, Taylor, Madison, Jefferson, Gulf, Gadsden, and Franklin. For the purpose of this study, the study area will be referred to as the Capital Region (as it includes Leon County, which hosts the capital of Florida, and all of Leon County's neighboring counties). This project has three …