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Solidarity Sometimes: Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Labor Movement
This dissertation investigates the role of global labor in international relations. I argue that global labor is mainly comprised of two parts: national union organizations and Global Unions. Global Unions are transnational labor organizations (TLOs) with a worldwide membership that were created by …
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A Rhetorical Analysis of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Movement
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Population and labor movement between urban and rural areas of China
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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Labor's unsettled vagrancy: The rise and fall of the hobo labor movement, 1865-1929
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Taking a Deep Breadth: The Rhetorical Construction of Solidarity in the American Labor Movement
… fragments in three case studies of the American Labor Movement constituting movement members in solidarity. Using Kenneth Burke's discussion of rhetorical substance, this project explores the possibilities for developing deep and broad forms of solidarity within the American Labor Movement. …
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Labor movement and labor policy under the American military government in Korea, 1945-1948
… AMG confronted strong Korean opposition to many labor-management policies. The use of naked force rather than effective administration was the major AMG strategic approach. AMG openly and actively aided former collaborators of the Japanese colonial government and rightist politicians while …
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"It was all about the working class” : Norm Gallagher, the BLF and the Australian Labor Movement
… (BLF), which was executed by Federal and State Labor Governments, was one of the most significant events in Australian industrial relations history. The union and its general secretary, Norm Gallagher, continue to excite passionate debate whenever their names are invoked. Portrayed as the ugly …
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The specter of Black labor: African American workers in Illinois before the Great Migration, 1847 to 1910
The Specter of Black Labor is interested in examining the actions, reactions and opinions of Afro-Illinoisans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in relation to their own position as laborers. While previous studies on Black workers in Illinois focus heavily on African …
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Guns or Roses: A Comparative Case Study on the Influence of the Military and the Labor Unions on Regime-Change
… with a politicized military and a fragmented labor movement are more likely to experience a return to authoritarianism. Reversely, authoritarian regimes with a politicized labor movement and a fragmented or apolitical military yields a higher likelihood of a pacted transition towards …
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"Anarchism and the press in Lima: The case of ""Los Parias"""
… between the anarchist press and the nascent labor movement in the Republic of Peru in the beginning of the twentieth century. The first anarchist newspaper that appeared in Peru in 1904, titled Los Parias, provides a detailed look into the ways in which this communications medium, thanks to …
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The Relationship Between the Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist Party Shortly After World War I
Recognized as one of the most revolutionary labor unions in America during the early twentieth-century by the general public and the federal government, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) separated themselves from the rest of the labor unions because of their success in executing general …
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Labor and Media: A Strained Relationship
<p>The labor movement or union community of America has been in a steady decline for more than a decade. The 1950s saw the pinnacle of success with one-third of the U.S. workforce being unionized. Today only 8% of the private workforce is unionized. One way in which this decline may be perceived as …
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The Work and Politics of Stevedoring in Rio De Janeiro, 1903--1964 (Brazil)
… and how they influenced the Brazilian national labor movement.
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Working for American rights: black, white and Mexican American dockworkers in Texas during the Great Depression
… differences in workers’ understandings of the labor movement developed because Mexican Americans and African Americans sought to secure many of the rights of citizenship that white longshoremen took for granted. They saw the union as an appropriate vehicle through which to eliminate this …
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The Development of IAM District Lodge 776 in Fort Worth, Texas, 1942-1946: A Case Study in the Growth of Organized Labor During World War II
… Worth Machinists clearly fit into the national labor movement during the war years. Second, it argues that the existence, survival, and strength of the union depended greatly on outside forcesan expanding national economy, a powerful national union, and a generally labor-friendly government. …
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The Making of the First New Left in Britain
… between the existing structures in the British labor movement. These intellectuals greatly influenced socialist thought in the aftermath of Stalinsim and paved a way forward for future socialist activism. Existing works on the group analyze its impact and assess its successes and failures. By …
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Sectoral clashes and forgotten classes : rural workers and the Peronist state, 1946-1948
Through a case study illustrating the 1946-1948 labor militancy among harvest workers in the province of Santa Fe, this study examines why rural workers failed to appear alongside their urban counterparts in the union movement under Perón. The Santa Fe harvest strikes demonstrate how rural workers …
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Towards an economic theory of strikes: Further evidence from Brazilian data
We analyse the history of the labor movement in Brazil since the beginning of its industrialization, with particular emphasis on the legislation governing labor disputes. A data set on strike activity for that country during the period between 1983 and 1993 is first analysed at the descriptive …
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