..., Puritan settlers, Polish immigrants to America, Army recruits, migrant farm workers from Haiti, Alutiiq fishers and trappers from Alaska, and survivors of civil war in Yugoslavia. social life sociology Yale University perspective Hughes Everett Cherrington locations University of Chicago Chicago...

... by the Underground authorities could be anti-communist. It also discusses the depiction of the Home Army as “heroic” and Wladyslaw Gomulka's 1962 speech about the creation of the Polish Workers' Party. Poland Soviet invaders two enemies anti-German anti-communist Home Army Wladyslaw Gomulka Polish Workers...

... of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee's (UFWOC) 1970 strike before discussing the decline of the UFWOC (renamed the United Farm Workers in 1972) during the early 1980s and how it affected farmworkers not only in California but also throughout the nation. It then looks at the emergence of other...

... would write a manifesto to call workers of the world to unite for “the abolition of the old bourgeois Society founded on class antagonism and the foundation of a new Society without class and without private property.” The chapter then looks at the rhetoric of the Communist Manifesto...

... the enslaved plantation workers of Cuba and Brazil. Dawley Thomas R Havana smell of tasajo in tasajo salt cured beef Cuban imports of Cuba imports of tasajo Platense region slavery Portuguese slave traders Buenos Aires founding of Montevideo Uruguay tasajo exports sugar plantations Barbados...

...This chapter illustrates the challenges faced by the Gulag medical-sanitation department. The principal task of this department was to maximize the number of working prisoners. Yet health care workers operated in a highly constrained environment and were forced to serve the system of physical...

...This chapter discusses the role of immigrant workers in the meatpacking and poultry processing industry. It also examines immigration enforcement of meatpacking workers and explores the government's failure to prevent the employment of unauthorized workers. meatpacking industry changes in wages...

... Democratic Herald trade unionism United Mine Workers of America UMWA white supremacy American socialism and Wilshire Gaylord Wood Charles L Dixon Thomas Ku Klux Klan Pemberton Caroline H Asian immigrants Socialist resistance to immigrants and immigration issues Socialist International SI...

...This chapter looks at the shifting of ‘labouring poor’ or ‘lower orders’ into ‘workers’. Far from being passive beings at the foot of the social ladder, the chapter notes that Georgian masses were sharing in the general social ferment—and making their own history. It emphasizes that Britain's...

... economy's concept of “value” as a key category for the rest of the book. The chapter then recounts how, starting in the 1860s, officials legalized penal labor contracts that prevented migrant Indian workers from leaving employers under threat of prosecution. During the last decades of the century...

...Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their homes for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration...

...American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year, most for fewer than six months. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm work within a decade. What do these statistics mean for farmers, for labourers...

... for integrating the Kurdish borderland and ending the conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). So too though are efforts to secure the frontier through cross-border military operations into Iraq and Syria and the development of vassal-like relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG...

...This chapter discusses the burden of knowing that workplaces have not yet been transformed to understand that all persons within are equally dignified and entitled workers, even despite the powerful insights, the scores of lawsuits and complaints, and the many regulations promulgated by governments...

... coercion through their roles as captive workers to cast the institution of slavery in a new light: as an early and particularly virulent strain of institutionalized sexual harassment. slavery labor in domestic service harassment in enslaved women exclusion of from feminist history patriarchal power...

...This chapter focuses on Soviet television “enthusiasm,” the set of values and ambitions espoused by Central Television workers in the second half of the 1950s. It first considers the creation of the Moscow Youth Festival as the founding moment of a new, festive television aesthetics in the Soviet...

...This chapter examines the role of migrant workers in harvesting California's fruit and vegetable crops. It analyzes the interrelationships between immigration, farm employment, and poverty, and demonstrates that increases in farm jobs can also increase both immigration and poverty. California...

...This chapter presents the opinion of the planters regarding the abolition of slavery; they convinced themselves that slaves, once freed of the lash, would not work. The landowners wanted the state to pay for the immigrant workers' passage and then force them to labor long hours at the lowest...

...This chapter examines the organizational and ideological connections between late-Wilhelmine occult organizations such as the German Order and Thule Society and the early National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). The Thule Society and early Nazi movement shared a supernatural imaginary...

...This chapter illustrates how the National Socialist Workers' Party (NSDAP) appropriated supernatural ideas in order to appeal to ordinary Germans, enlisting the help of occultists and horror writers in shaping propaganda and political campaigning. By exploiting the supernatural imaginary, Hitler...