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Labor S Outcasts
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Author : Andrew J. Hazelton
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Labor S Outcasts written by Andrew J. Hazelton and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Political Science categories.
In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU's opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU's subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union's organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers and other movements in the years to come.
Indispensable Outcasts
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Author : Frank Tobias Higbie
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2003
Indispensable Outcasts written by Frank Tobias Higbie and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Business & Economics categories.
Often overlooked in the history of Progressive Era labor, the hoboes who rode the rails in search of seasonal work have nevertheless secured a place in the American imagination. The stories of the men who hunted work between city and countryside, men alternately portrayed as either romantic adventurers or degenerate outsiders, have not been easy to find. Nor have these stories found a comfortable home in either rural or labor histories. Indispensable Outcasts weaves together history, anthropology, gender studies, and literary analysis to reposition these workers at the center of Progressive Era debates over class, race, manly responsibility, community, and citizenship. Combining incisive cultural criticism with the empiricism of a more traditional labor history, Frank Tobias Higbie illustrates how these so-called marginal figures were in fact integral to the communities they briefly inhabited and to the cultural conflicts over class, masculinity, and sexuality they embodied. He draws from life histories, the investigations of social reformers, and the organizing materials of the Industrial Workers of the World and presents a complex and compelling portrait of hobo life, from its often violent and dangerous working conditions to its ethic of "transient mutuality" that enabled survival and resistance on the road. More than a study of hobo life, this interdisciplinary book is also a meditation on the possibilities for writing history from the bottom up, as well as a frank discussion of the ways historians' fascination with personal narrative has colored their construction and presentation of history.
Southern Outcast
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Author : David Brown
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Southern Outcast written by David Brown and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with History categories.
Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the first to appear in more than forty years -- David Brown provides a fresh and nuanced portrait of this self-styled reformer, exploring anew Helper's motivation for writing his inflammatory book. Brown places Helper in a perspective that shows how the society in which he lived influenced his thinking, beginning with Helper's upbringing in North Carolina, his move to California at the height of the Californian gold rush, his developing hostility toward nonwhites within the United States, and his publication of The Impending Crisis of the South. Helper's book paints a picture of a region dragged down by the institution of slavery and displays surprising concern for the fate of American slaves. It sold 140,000 copies, perhaps rivaled only by Uncle Tom's Cabin in its impact. The author argues that Helper never wavered in his commitment to the South, though his book's devastating critique made him an outcast there, playing a crucial role in the election of Lincoln and influencing the outbreak of war. As his career progressed after the war, Helper's racial attitudes grew increasingly intolerant. He became involved in various grand pursuits, including a plan to link North and South America by rail, continually seeking a success that would match his earlier fame. But after a series of disappointments, he finally committed suicide. Brown reconsiders the life and career of one of the antebellum South's most controversial and misunderstood figures. Helper was also one of the rare lower-class whites who recorded in detail his economic, political, and social views, thus affording a valuable window into the world of nonslaveholding white southerners on the eve of the Civil War. His critique of slavery provides an important challenge to dominant paradigms stressing consensus among southern whites, and his development into a racist illustrates the power and destructiveness of the prejudice that took hold of the South in the late nineteenth century, as well as the wider developments in American society at the time.
Memoirs Of The Life And Gospel Labors Of Stephen Grellet
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Author : Stephen Grellet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Memoirs Of The Life And Gospel Labors Of Stephen Grellet written by Stephen Grellet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
A Memoir Of The Life And Religious Labors Of Edward Burrough
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Author : William Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
A Memoir Of The Life And Religious Labors Of Edward Burrough written by William Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Memoirs Of The Life And Gospel Labors Of The Late Daniel Wheeler
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Author : Daniel Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Memoirs Of The Life And Gospel Labors Of The Late Daniel Wheeler written by Daniel Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Australia categories.
Thompson In Africa Or An Account Of The Missionary Labors Sufferings Travels And Observations Of George Thompson In Western Africa At The Mendi Mission
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Author : George Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
Thompson In Africa Or An Account Of The Missionary Labors Sufferings Travels And Observations Of George Thompson In Western Africa At The Mendi Mission written by George Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Africa, West categories.
Thompson In Africa Or An Account Of The Missionary Labors Sufferings Travels And Observations Of George Thompson In Western Africa At The Mendi Mission Second Edition
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Author : George THOMPSON (Missionary)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Thompson In Africa Or An Account Of The Missionary Labors Sufferings Travels And Observations Of George Thompson In Western Africa At The Mendi Mission Second Edition written by George THOMPSON (Missionary) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with categories.
Migratory Labor Bills
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Migratory Labor Bills written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Migratory Labor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Executive advisory bodies categories.
Considers (88) S. 521, (88) S. 522, (88) S. 523, (88) S. 524, (88) S. 525, (88) S. 526.
Migratory Labor Bills
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Migratory Labor Bills written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.