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Union Heartland
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Author : Ginette Aley
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2013-08-28
Union Heartland written by Ginette Aley and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-28 with History categories.
The Civil War has historically been viewed somewhat simplistically as a battle between the North and the South. Southern historians have broadened this viewpoint by revealing the “many Souths” that made up the Confederacy, but the “North” has remained largely undifferentiated as a geopolitical term. In this welcome collection, seven Civil War scholars offer a unique regional perspective on the Civil War by examining how a specific group of Northerners—Midwesterners, known as Westerners and Middle Westerners during the 1860s—experienced the war on the home front. Much of the intensifying political and ideological turmoil of the 1850s played out in the Midwest and instilled in its people a powerful sense of connection to this important drama. The 1850 federal Fugitive Slave Law and highly visible efforts to recapture former bondsmen and women who had escaped; underground railroad “stations” and supporters throughout the region; publication of Ohioan Harriet Beecher Stowe’s widely-influential and best-selling Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854; the murderous abolitionist John Brown, who gained notoriety and hero status attacking proslavery advocates in Kansas; the emergence of the Republican Party and Illinoisan Abraham Lincoln—all placed the Midwest at the center of the rising sectional tensions. From the exploitation of Confederate prisoners in Ohio to wartime college enrollment in Michigan, these essays reveal how Midwestern men, women, families, and communities became engaged in myriad war-related activities and support. Agriculture figures prominently in the collection, with several scholars examining the agricultural power of the region and the impact of the war on farming, farm families, and farm women. Contributors also consider student debates and reactions to questions of patriotism, the effect of the war on military families’ relationships, issues of women’s loyalty and deference to male authority, as well as the treatment of political dissent and dissenters. Bringing together an assortment of home front topics from a variety of fresh perspectives, this collection offers a view of the Civil War that is unabashedly Midwestern.
Organizing The Unemployed
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Author : James J. Lorence
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1996-07-03
Organizing The Unemployed written by James J. Lorence and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-07-03 with Political Science categories.
Examines the organization of the unemployed during the Great Depression and demonstrates the linkage between their mobilization and automobile-industry organization.
School Bells Of The Heartland The Story Of Union Center
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Author : Jan Eloise Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
School Bells Of The Heartland The Story Of Union Center written by Jan Eloise Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Hard Pressed In The Heartland
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Author : Peter J. Rachleff
language : en
Publisher: South End Press
Release Date : 1993
Hard Pressed In The Heartland written by Peter J. Rachleff and has been published by South End Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Austin (Minn.) categories.
Hard-Pressed in the Heartland tells the heartbreaking but empowering story of a spirited local union trying to resist management's drive for concessions--while fending off a conservative national union leadership unwilling to support its own members. Going beyond academic history, it offers useful perspectives for rebuilding a democratic, militant, community-based unionism that can succeed where today's bureaucratic unionism cannot.
Three Strikes
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Author : Stephen Franklin
language : en
Publisher: Guilford Press
Release Date : 2002-09-01
Three Strikes written by Stephen Franklin and has been published by Guilford Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-01 with Political Science categories.
This eloquently written book chronicles the massive, protracted strikes waged against three large corporations in Decatur, Illinois, in the 1990s. Veteran journalist Stephen Franklin shows how labor disputes at Bridgestone/ Firestone, Caterpillar, and A. E. Staley left lasting scars on this town and its citizens--and marked a turning point in American labor history. When workers went on strike to retain such basic rights as job security and the 8-hour day, the corporations hit back with unprecedented hard-line tactics. Through the moving stories of individual workers and union activists, Franklin illuminates the hardships and disillusionment left in the wake of the strikes, and the powerful forces that caught an unprepared labor leadership off guard. He vividly portrays how the balance of labor-management power was shifted by corporate globalization, cutthroat labor practices, the outdated responses of national unions and government regulators, and an apathetic public. Reflecting on the hard-won lessons of Decatur, the book describes how the quality of work and life are now threatened--not just for blue-collar workers, but for all Americans--and what it will take to safeguard them.
Heartland Blues
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Author : Marc Dixon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-23
Heartland Blues written by Marc Dixon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-23 with Social Science categories.
The Midwest experienced an upheaval over labor rights beginning in the winter of 2011. For most commentators, the fallout in the Midwest and unions' weak showing in the 2016 presidential election a few years later was just more evidence of labor's emaciated state. In Heartland Blues, Marc Dixon provides a new perspective on union decline by revisiting the labor movement at its historical peak in the late 1950s. Drawing on social movement theories and archival materials, he analyzes campaigns over key labor policies as they were waged in the heavily unionized states of Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin-the very same states at the center of more recent battles over labor rights. He shows how many of the key ingredients necessary for less powerful groups to succeed, including effective organization and influential political allies, were not a given for labor at the time, but instead varied in important ways across the industrial heartland. Thus, the labor movement's social and political isolation and their limited responses to employer mobilization became a death knell in the ensuing decades, as unions sought organizational and legislative remedies to industrial decline and the rising anti-union tide. Showing how labor rights have been challenged in significant ways in the industrial Midwest in the 1950s, Heartland Blues both identifies enduring problems for labor and forces scholars to look beyond size when seeking clues to labor's failures and successes.
Union Retreat And The Regions
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Author : Ron Martin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Union Retreat And The Regions written by Ron Martin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Architecture categories.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The shrinking landscape of industrial militancy. The geographical decentralization of the new industrial relations. The link between these factors and the more general debate on regional development and regional labour markets. An important synthesis of economic geography and industrial relations work, this book marks a major contribution towards the newly emerging field of labour geography
The Soviet Union And The Heartland
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Author : W. Gordon East
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Soviet Union And The Heartland written by W. Gordon East and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with categories.
Ada
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Ada written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Antiaircraft artillery categories.
Left Unionism In The Heartland
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Author : Rose Feurer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Left Unionism In The Heartland written by Rose Feurer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Electric industry workers categories.