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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"labor history"”.
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Serving each other: Formal and informal support systems of early twentieth century waitresses
… of womanhood. Many women seeking jobs as wage-laborers found employment opportunities by serving the public as waitresses. To survive urban living conditions, these women allied themselves with each other and middle class women to combat a negative perception of themselves, and to form support …
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Shattered windows: The story of Genora Johnson Dollinger, Eva Stone, and the women of Michigan
… Johnson Dollinger and Eva Stone in Michigan’s labor movements during the 1930s. It focuses on Dollinger’s leadership in the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37, where she mobilized women to join the picket lines, culminating in the formation of the Women’s Emergency Brigade. Her influence extended …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
This dissertation presents a cultural and labor history of race in 20th century Filipino America through the political-economic conditions that displaced lowlands peasants and indigenous groups from Northern Luzon in the 19th century. It argues that the constellation of contradictory identities …
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History of Unionization in Waterloo, Iowa
The rise of organized labor has been one of the impressive phenomena of the Twentieth Century. This thesis, a history of unionization in Waterloo, Iowa, seeks to explore a small local facet of the larger nation-wide movement. I chose Waterloo as the locale of my study because of its placement in a …
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The Yanks Are Striking: Kern County, the 1921 Oil Strike and the Discourse on Americanism
… consultation with the federal government on labor relations. They voted to strike, and the next day eight thousand workers walked off the fields. Strikers crafted an image of “patriotic unionism,” underpinned by a faith in the federal government and the ideology of the American Legion. The …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
This dissertation examines the history behind German companies' failure to attain the highest level of world rationalization, a rigorously Taylorized shop floor combined with a workforce willing to lend their practical expertise to management for the sake of modernizing production. From the end of …
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Community unions in Baltimore and Long Island : beyond the politics of particularism
… that into the breach left by the decline of the labor movement and political parties in late twentieth century America, a new type of labor market institution had emerged that was trying to fulfill the dual role of raising wage standards and giving political voice to low wage workers. Second, …
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Caracterização da comunidade quilombola pesqueira do município de Cachoeira: uma análise sobre aspectos sociodemográfico, saúde e trabalho, Bahia, Brasil
… and describe the socioedemographic profile, the labor history of the fishing activity and the comorbidities that most affect the health of these artisanal / seafood fishermen. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological study carried out with 248 fishermen and / or shellfish residents …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
This dissertation is a labor history of the United States army in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that soldiers constituted a partially-unfree labor force essential to the advance of U.S. imperialism. The project draws on government reports, military records, court-martial …
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Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903
… rights of the community; and finally, her use of labor as a tool for manipulating the culture of oppression. While current theoretical frameworks of literary representations of resistance rely heavily on the primacy of iconographic black protagonists, the common woman is a new imagining of black …
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Home Movie, Nowhere
… a personal and creative documentation of local history in the American Midwest and explores personal ties to homeplace through the aesthetic lens of the Midwestern Gothic. Spotlighting rural Iowa, this work uncovers the historical realities of a place that remains largely absent from the …
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Daughters of Ruth : enterprising black women in insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s
… It complicates the narrative of black southern labor history that focuses more on women as agricultural laborers, domestics, and factory workers than as enterprising risk takers who sought to counterbalance personal ambition and self-interest with communal empowerment. Insurance organizations …
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The Making of the Ahupuaa of Laie into a Gathering Place and Plantation: The Creation of an Alternative Space to Capitalism
This dissertation is a labor history of the Laie sugar plantation between 1865 and 1931. It explores intercultural and race relations that were inherent to colonial and plantation processes in Hawaii. Particular attention is given to the role of religion in advancing the colonial project. In 1865 …
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La Causa Para La Raza: The Educative Processes and Development of Knowledge in the United Farm Workers from 1962 to 1970
… for this study were found in the archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs at the Walter Reuther Library at Wayne State University and from secondary sources. A conceptual framework for this study was built upon the theories and positions of those from adult education, educational history, …
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Worktime in the United States Steel Industry, 1870-1939
The iron and steel industry was rapidly changing between 1870 and 1939. The decline of iron and the rise of steel, coupled with technological developments and new immigration trends, brought about a new industry at the end of the nineteenth century that was starkly different from just a few decades …
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'a Man's World'?: A Study Of Female Workers At Nasa's Kennedy Space C
… workplace, and the recruitment of women into the labor force. Data from NASA and Spaceport News articles was also compared with information obtained through oral histories, to determine if the official policies of KSC influenced the behavior of its employees. Attention is also given to the …
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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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Figuring Women's Work: The Cultural Production of Care and Labor in the Industrial U.S.
… conventionally begin their investigation of U.S. labor history with industrialization, focusing on forms of industrial labor, union organization, and labor legislation, to the exclusion of work performed in the “private sphere”: domestic, service, and care labor. But by presuming that these forms …
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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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