... the story alive, and in 1972, union members and local stakeholders erected a monument at Lattimer. Labor organizers and politicians attended the seventy-fifth anniversary commemoration. Through the 1990s local religious leaders organized Roman Catholic Masses at the site on the massacre’s anniversary...

.... Compared with any other year in the decade, 1955 brought high production, low unemployment, substantial profits for automakers, and steady pay for autoworkers, who were called the new labor aristocracy. credit boom 1955 medical insurance pensions blamed for lack of job mobility Automobile Manufacturers...

...-labor figures—union supporters called them rats, stool pigeons, finks, sluggers, thugs, goons, scabs, and strikebreakers. They were the union movement's negative examples that separated the honorable and respectable manhood of union men from the dishonorable and disreputable spies and thugs. Often...

... in the automobile industry and elsewhere had reached the limits of their tolerance and endurance of the horrid conditions of their work lives. The bitter struggle for industrial unionism was a militant and masculine campaign to alleviate the conditions of life and labor in their communities and mass production...

... and Asian battlefields, leading to severe labor shortages in American plants and factories. As the war progressed, the auto and (later) aircraft industries brought more women into positions formerly reserved for men. These new female workers challenged the privileged position and dominance of men...

...—that was ubiquitous globally. Moreover, part of his portfolio was arranging for the importation of labor from the Caribbean to plantations in Florida, which provided him with more contacts in a region where he already had established a toehold, specifically in Haiti. This then created a further opening for him...

... of the labor movement. However, the ultimate social effects of this religiosity remained contested and ambiguous. Opponents viewed worker religion as far too modernist, far too pluralistic, and far too close to the orbits of communism and radicalism. Worker religion, in fact, came to be seen by its adversaries...

...This chapter focuses on the Chicago Outfit as a complex criminal organization, with particular emphasis on its hierarchical structure, chain of command, and division of labor. After describing the formal structure of the Chicago Outfit and its criminal activities, the chapter shows that people who...

... interlocking limits to New Deal labor liberalism: the failure to provide public employees full union rights, the inability to ensure that African-Americans in the nation’s largest cities enjoyed equal educational and economic opportunities, and the drastic, insoluble fiscal crises brought...

... associated with media convergence, magazine producers are ostensibly compelled to (re)define their industries, their roles, their audiences, and their products. The goal of this book is to initiate debates about the shape-shifting nature of creative labor. Apple Atlantic bloggers Constanza Jean Louis...

... this trend in historical perspective by recalling women's magazines' tradition of “inviting readers in.” Second, it looks at an external force encroaching on magazine production: the rise of fashion blogging. It also describes the labor politics of user-generated content and goes on to discuss how various...

.... In reconceptualizing politics as a shared labor on an uneven terrain that makes perfect retelling impossible, hungry translation becomes continuous collective labor of troubling inherited meanings of the social and of making our knowledges more alive to the creativity of socio-political struggle. academy authority...

...The introduction surveys the history of informal economic labor in Black communities while presenting its recent scholarship. It then moves to highlight this book’s assertion that in Chicago women were integral to policy gambling despite constant harassment from Chicago police. Labor in the policy...

... are the key intellectual trends introduced, through the ideas and political trajectories of some leaders of the Socialist Labor Party (SLP). Intertwining intellectual and political history, this chapter suggests that the cooperation between supporters of scientific racialism and supporters of internationalism...

... to settle in the U.S. to white supremacist appeals to close the border, were based on a mix of racially-charged stereotypes and class-based denunciation of the economic exploitation suffered by Chinese labor. This chapter explores the Socialist Labor Party (SLP)’s contentious relationship...

... how the Global Compact frames the “problem” of global migration and its governance “solution,” which is to advocate managed and rights-based migration as good for development and a basis for state cooperation. Using temporary labor migration programs as the illustration, the chapter argues...

...This afterword reflects on the collection of essays separately and together to explore how historical perspectives anchor migration in other fields of scholarship and activism. It examines how they contribute, not only to research on contemporary migration, but also to labor research more generally...

... (CIO) immediately split over the decision’s ramifications. Moreover, while the ruling enlarged constitutional protection for the right of public assembly to the benefit of Jehovah’s Witnesses, civil rights demonstrators, and others, it did little to enhance picketing and other “labor speech...

... that the decisive reasons why the United States rarely has full employment are found in the way unregulated capitalism thrives on a labor surplus, and in business leaders, conservative and neoliberal politicians, and economists who resist government job creation programs. conservatives conservatism economists...

... sides of the Ozarks. The chapter also looks at topics such as labor organizing and politics. Dalton James L Forbes B C Hearst William Randolph cotton farming Doniphan Mo Eleven Point River Lacrosse Collegiate Institute Poplar Bluff Mo Randolph County Ark Ripley County Mo St Louis Mo St Louis...