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Reds Or Rackets?

Author : Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520078861
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reds Or Rackets? written by Howard Kimeldorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or Rackets? provides a fascinating examination of the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within it. Kimeldorf focuses on the political contrast between East and West Coast longshoremen from World War I through the early years of the Cold War, when the difference between the two unions was greatest. He explores the politics of the West Coast union that developed into a hot bed of working class insurgency and contrasts it with the conservative and racket-ridden East Coast longshoreman's union. Two unions, based in the same industry—as different as night and day. The question posed by Kimeldorf is, why? Why "reds" on one coast and racketeers on the other? To answer this question Kimeldorf provides a systematic comparison of the two unions, illuminating the political consequences of occupational recruitment, industry structure, mobilization strategies, and industrial conflict during this period. In doing so, Reds orRackets? sheds new light on the structural and historical bases of radical and conservative unionism. More than a comparative study of two unions, Reds or Rackets? is an exploration of the dynamics of trade unionism, sources of membership loyalty, and neglected aspects of working class consciousness. It is an incisive and valuable study that will appeal to historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in understanding the political trajectory of twentieth-century American labor.

Reds or Rackets?

Author : Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520912779
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Reds or Rackets? written by Howard Kimeldorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-11-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the American working class different? For generations, scholars and activists alike have wrestled with this question, with an eye to explaining why workers in the United States are not more like their radicalized European counterparts. Approaching the question from a different angle, Reds or Rackets? provides a fascinating examination of the American labor movement from the inside out, as it were, by analyzing the divergent sources of radicalism and conservatism within it. Kimeldorf focuses on the political contrast between East and West Coast longshoremen from World War I through the early years of the Cold War, when the difference between the two unions was greatest. He explores the politics of the West Coast union that developed into a hot bed of working class insurgency and contrasts it with the conservative and racket-ridden East Coast longshoreman's union. Two unions, based in the same industry—as different as night and day. The question posed by Kimeldorf is, why? Why "reds" on one coast and racketeers on the other? To answer this question Kimeldorf provides a systematic comparison of the two unions, illuminating the political consequences of occupational recruitment, industry structure, mobilization strategies, and industrial conflict during this period. In doing so, Reds orRackets? sheds new light on the structural and historical bases of radical and conservative unionism. More than a comparative study of two unions, Reds or Rackets? is an exploration of the dynamics of trade unionism, sources of membership loyalty, and neglected aspects of working class consciousness. It is an incisive and valuable study that will appeal to historians, social scientists, and anyone interested in understanding the political trajectory of twentieth-century American labor.

Waterfront Workers

Author : Calvin Winslow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066917
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Waterfront Workers written by Calvin Winslow and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few work settings can compete with the waterfront for a long, rich history of multi-ethnic and multiracial interaction. Here, five scholars focus on the complex relationships involved in this intersection of race, class, and ethnicity. "Opens up some of the most significant questions in American labor and social history, including the struggle for control at the workplace and, even more important, the relationship between black and white workers and among various ethnic groups on the docks." -- David Brundage, author of The Making of Western Labor Radicalism: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz

Many Are the Crimes

Author : Ellen Schrecker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691048703
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Many Are the Crimes written by Ellen Schrecker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an analysis of the McCarthy phenomenon, tracing the machinations of anticommunism in creating a culture of fear and suspicion.

Deportation Nation

Author : Daniel Kanstroom
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674056566
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Deportation Nation written by Daniel Kanstroom and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The danger of deportation hangs over the head of virtually every noncitizen in the United States. In the complexities and inconsistencies of immigration law, one can find a reason to deport almost any noncitizen at almost any time. In recent years, the system has been used with unprecedented vigor against millions of deportees. We are a nation of immigrants--but which ones do we want, and what do we do with those that we don't? These questions have troubled American law and politics since colonial times. Deportation Nation is a chilling history of communal self-idealization and self-protection. The post-Revolutionary Alien and Sedition Laws, the Fugitive Slave laws, the Indian "removals," the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Palmer Raids, the internment of the Japanese Americans--all sought to remove those whose origins suggested they could never become "true" Americans. And for more than a century, millions of Mexicans have conveniently served as cheap labor, crossing a border that was not official until the early twentieth century and being sent back across it when they became a burden. By illuminating the shadowy corners of American history, Daniel Kanstroom shows that deportation has long been a legal tool to control immigrants' lives and is used with increasing crudeness in a globalized but xenophobic world.

Three Temporalities

Author : William Hamilton Sewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Three Temporalities written by William Hamilton Sewell and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dock Workers

Author : Sam Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351943251
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Dock Workers written by Sam Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour, their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter. The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour, patterns of strike action and involvement in political organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this essential reference work.

How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal?

Author : Victoria Johnson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802154
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal? written by Victoria Johnson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal? explores the cultural forces that shaped two pivotal events affecting the entire West Coast: the 1919 Seattle General Strike and the 1934 San Francisco General Strike. In contrast to traditional approaches that downplay culture or focus on the role of socialists or communists, Victoria Johnson shows how strike participants were inspired by distinctly American notions of workplace democracy that can be traced back to the political philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine. Johnson examines the powerful stories and practices from our own egalitarian traditions that resonated with these workers and that have too often been dismissed by observers of the American labor movement. Ultimately, she argues that organized labor's failure to draw on these traditions in later decades contributed to its decreasing capacity to mobilize workers as well as to the increasing conservatism of American political culture. This book will appeal to scholars of western and labor history, sociology, and political science, as well as to anyone interested in the intersection of labor and culture.

Reds Or Rackets

Author : Howard Alex Kimeldorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Reds Or Rackets written by Howard Alex Kimeldorf and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mini Tennis - On Court Red

Author : Roger Stenquist
Publisher : Roger Stenquist
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mini Tennis - On Court Red written by Roger Stenquist and published by Roger Stenquist. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you as a tennis coach want to get a ready-to-go concept with 73 physical drills, 64 basic tennis drills with 3-12 variations of each drill, progressive development week by week over 2 years time and a red thread at Mini Tennis level? In that case, the book ”Mini Tennis - On Court Red” may be the right book for you. Through this book, the coach can systematically train their players step by step in order to get the player even more technically, physically and tactically developed. Background; This book is based on a concept from the International Tennis Federation, "Play and Stay" and "tennis 10s". This concept aims to simplify the tennis game for players during the first years. Previously, there were two steps to go, but with the new concept you have two further steps. The steps are now red (mini tennis), orange (midi tennis), green (maxi tennis) and yellow (regular ball). With the different colors comes different balls, different sizes of the rackets and different sizes of the tennis court. This makes it easier for the player to learn to serve, rally, and score very early. This book focuses on red level (mini tennis).

Battling for American Labor

Author : Howard Kimeldorf
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520218337
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Battling for American Labor written by Howard Kimeldorf and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This riveting, nuanced book takes seriously the workplace radicalism of many early twentieth century American workers. The restriction of working class militancy to the workplace, it shows, was no mere economism. Organizational rather than psychological in orientation, Battling For American Labor accounts for both the early preference of dockworkers in Philadelphia and hotel and restaurant workers in New York for the IWW rather than the AFL and for the reversal of this choice in the 1920s. In so doing, it points the way to a fresh reading of American labor history."—Ira Katznelson, Columbia University "Howard Kimeldorf's book, based on sound and solid historical research in archives, newspapers, journals, memoirs and oral histories, argues that workers in the United States, regardless of their precise union affiliation, harbored syndicalist tendencies which manifested themselves in direct action on the job. Because Kimeldorf's book reinterprets much of the history of the labor movement in the United States, it will surely generate much controversy among scholars and capture the attention of readers."—Melvyn Dubofsky, Binghamton University, SUNY "Howard Kimeldorf's new book is a very exciting accomplishment. This book will surely leave a major imprint on labor history and the sociology of labor. Kimeldorf's focus on repertoires of collective action and practice instead of ideology is a particularly important contribution; one that will force students of labor to rethink many worn-out arguments. After reading Battling For American Labor, one will no longer be able to assume the IWW's defeat was inevitable, or take seriously psychological theories of worker consciousness."—David Wellman, author of The Union Makes Us Strong

Red Dirt

Author : Joe Samuel Starnes
Publisher : Breakaway Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Dirt written by Joe Samuel Starnes and published by Breakaway Books. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An ace of a novel, an ace of a writer.” —Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter Red Dirt is the story of Jaxie Skinner, an unlikely professional tennis player from a blue-collar family in the sticks of rural Georgia who takes up the game at the age of three when his father scrapes a court out of the red clay behind their farmhouse. He is a natural, rising to the top of junior tennis, and at eighteen has great success at the French Open. He falls as quickly as he rose, however, when troubles back home and injuries arise. He quits the game for years, but then mounts a comeback, struggling for almost a decade in the unglamorous, low-paying minor leagues of tennis, often living out of his van, before getting one last big shot. A fascinating study of tennis, its demands and tactics, as well as a look at the insular and often selfish character required to reach the pinnacle of the sport, Red Dirt is the Rocky of tennis novels. PRAISE FOR RED DIRT “Starnes spins a tale with the pace and power of a Rafael Nadal forehand.” —Jay Jennings, editor of Tennis and the Meaning of Life: A Literary Anthology of the Game “Alright, literate tennis fans, it’s time to put down the remote and set aside those stat sheets and take an alternately amusing and inspiring trip from the top of the pro tennis barrel to the bottom—and back again. Joe Samuel Starnes’s book radiates an aficionado’s understanding of not just how the game is played (on and off the court) but what it takes to triumph in the hyper-competitive pro game.” —Peter Bodo, Tennis magazine senior writer, ESPN columnist, and co-author of Pete Sampras’s autobiography, A Champion’s Mind “Red Dirt is solid pleasure. Starnes knows what it is to compete, to hope to be made whole by competition, to overcome not just your opponent but your own unquiet. This is a tennis novel, but any athlete—no, any reader—will learn a lot and enjoy the learning.” —John Casey, author of Spartina, winner of the National Book Award “Red Dirt isn’t just a terrific sports novel; it’s a terrific novel, period. Jaxie Skinner is a complex and compelling character, and Starnes gives him a clear, fresh, lively voice.” —Michael Griffith, author of Spikes

Red Round Globe Hot Burning

Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520383036
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Red Round Globe Hot Burning written by Peter Linebaugh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His Black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed that he was a friend to the poor and oppressed. He expressed trust that “the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion.” And yet the world turned. From the connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish Revolutions, to the Anthropocene’s birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production, Red Round Globe Hot Burning throws readers into the pivotal moment of the last two millennia. This monumental history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive chronicle of the resistance to the demise of communal regimes. Peter Linebaugh’s extraordinary narrative recovers the death-defying heroism of extended networks of underground resisters fighting against privatization of the commons accomplished by two new political entities, the U.S.A. and the U.K., that we now know would dispossess people around the world through today. Red Round Globe Hot Burning is the culmination of a lifetime of research—encapsulated through an epic tale of love.

American Lawn Tennis

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book American Lawn Tennis written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Longshoremen

Author : William J. Mello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book New York Longshoremen written by William J. Mello and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how labour relations on the New York and East Coast waterfront were driven from below by radical and reform rank-and-file movements led by communists, Catholics, and local union leaders in the post-World War II era. It looks at power and collective action, as well as institutional and social movements, specifically analyzing the impact on political development. This rich account illustrates how workers defied the combined powers of elites and sporadically imposed their will on labour relations.

Wright and Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guide

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Wright and Ditson's Lawn Tennis Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War is a Racket

Author : Smedley Butler
Publisher : Jovian Press
ISBN 13 : 1537820796
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (378 download)

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Download or read book War is a Racket written by Smedley Butler and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States occupation of Haiti, which lasted from 1915 to 1934.