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Author : Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The City Worker's World in America written by Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The City Worker's World in America written by Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shelton Stromquist
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839767774
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Claiming the City written by Shelton Stromquist and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic - and what the lessons are for today. For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn propertied elites challenged their right to govern. Prominent US labor historian, Shelton Stromquist, offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics. He explains how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism. Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill, Christchurch, Malmö, Bradford, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Hamilton, OH, the book shows how this new urban politics arose. Long governed by propertied elites, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric. Amidst massive strikes and faced with epidemic disease, fouled streets, unsafe water, decrepit housing, and with little economic security and few public amenities, urban workers invented a local politics that promised to democratize cities they might themselves govern and reclaim the wealth they created. This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. Municipal socialist ideas have continued to inspire activists in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves.
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Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The City Worker's World in America written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natasha Iskander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217572
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Does Skill Make Us Human? written by Natasha Iskander and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics of skill shape responses to climate change.
Author : Joshua B. Freeman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154958X
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book City of Workers, City of Struggle written by Joshua B. Freeman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founding of New Amsterdam until today, working people have helped create and re-create the City of New York through their struggles. Starting with artisans and slaves in colonial New York and ranging all the way to twenty-first-century gig-economy workers, this book tells the story of New York’s labor history anew. City of Workers, City of Struggle brings together essays by leading historians of New York and a wealth of illustrations, offering rich descriptions of work, daily life, and political struggle. It recounts how workers have developed formal and informal groups not only to advance their own interests but also to pursue a vision of what the city should be like and whom it should be for. The book goes beyond the largely white, male wage workers in mainstream labor organizations who have dominated the history of labor movements to look at enslaved people, indentured servants, domestic workers, sex workers, day laborers, and others who have had to fight not only their masters and employers but also labor groups that often excluded them. Through their stories—how they fought for inclusion or developed their own ways to advance—it recenters labor history for contemporary struggles. City of Workers, City of Struggle offers the definitive account of the four-hundred-year history of efforts by New York workers to improve their lives and their communities. In association with the exhibition City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York at the Museum of the City of New York
Download or read book Psychiatry and Social Science Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Friedheim
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744618
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Seattle General Strike written by Robert Friedheim and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!” With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important general strikes in US history. For six tense yet nonviolent days, the Central Labor Council negotiated with federal and local authorities on behalf of the shipyard workers whose grievances initiated the citywide walkout. Meanwhile, strikers organized to provide essential services such as delivering supplies to hospitals and markets, as well as feeding thousands at union-run dining facilities. Robert L. Friedheim’s classic account of the dramatic events of 1919, first published in 1964 and now enhanced with a new introduction, afterword, and photo essay by James N. Gregory, vividly details what happened and why. Overturning conventional understandings of the American Federation of Labor as a conservative labor organization devoted to pure and simple unionism, Friedheim shows the influence of socialists and the IWW in the city’s labor movement. While Seattle’s strike ended in disappointment, it led to massive strikes across the country that determined the direction of labor, capital, and government for decades. The Seattle General Strike is an exciting portrait of a Seattle long gone and of events that shaped the city’s reputation for left-leaning activism into the twenty-first century.
Author : Ursula Huws
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583674632
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Labor in the Global Digital Economy written by Ursula Huws and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It’s a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is also the key to understanding its driving force: the relentless impulse to commodify our lives in every aspect. Ursula Huws ties together disparate economic, cultural, and political phenomena of the last few decades to form a provocative narrative about the shape of the global capitalist economy at present. She examines the way that advanced information and communications technology has opened up new fields of capital accumulation: in culture and the arts, in the privatization of public services, and in the commodification of human sociality by way of mobile devices and social networking. These trends are in turn accompanied by the dramatic restructuring of work arrangements, opening the way for new contradictions and new forms of labor solidarity and struggle around the planet. Labor in the Global Digital Economy is a forceful critique of our dizzying contemporary moment, one that goes beyond notions of mere connectedness or free-flowing information to illuminate the entrenched mechanisms of exploitation and control at the core of capitalism.
Author : Joshua Benjamin Freeman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book In Transit written by Joshua Benjamin Freeman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of New York transit workers from the Great Depression through the monumental 1966 transit strike is one of the most detailed reconstructions to date of the social processes of industrial unionism. It traces the rise of the Transport Workers Union and the virtual revolution it brought about for the men and women who operated the world's largest transit system. It is also a story of politics: the role of Communists in leading the union, the union's relationships with Mayors from la Guardia to Lindsay, and the intense debate over public sector unionism.
Author : Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330550687
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The City Worker's World written by Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The City Worker's World: In America It is by art that the life of the industrial family is best portrayed. The high lights of verse or canvas or drama give the poignant and direct testimony of experience. This little book, alas, fails of being either art or science. But while it cannot claim these high avenues of expression, it may serve the more modest but no less useful purpose of furnishing a plain description of the facts of the city dweller's life, together with some indications of the evolutionary process going on at the city's heart. Books have taught me much. No doubt their messages have coloured my reflections. But experience has led me to discard much book knowledge as untrue, more as irrelevant, and most as anaemic in the face of life itself. More than to all other experiences the rich years have bestowed, do I owe to the illumination of my fifteen years at Greenwich House. No day goes by without its quota of testimony given by our whole resident group from association with our neighbours. This body of experience, growing day by day, is larger than the individual observer could hope to grasp. And I want, therefore, gratefully to acknowledge to my associates their helpful share in the formation of such convictions as I have been able here to present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Steve McKevitt
Publisher : Cyan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781904879725
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)
Download or read book City Slackers written by Steve McKevitt and published by Cyan Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A HUMOUROUS EXPLORATION AND GUIDE TO SUCCEEDING IN YOUR CAREER - WITHOUT HAVING TO WORK TOO HARD. It s possible to have a successful career without ever having to be involved in a successful job or project. It s called "playing the corporate game" and today thousands of people out there are doing it. This book explains with wit, humour (and with all seriousness) how to win the new corporate game and how the mediocre can inherit the (business) earth. The City Slacker is the ultimate "yes" man- he never challenges superiors and he always seems to put the company first. But at the same time, he is cleverly undermining the boss, because promotion and a payrise can t come soon enough. He will be armed with all the latest buzzwords, which will be rotated regularly to make him look well informed. Mature Slackers will be up to their necks in soft projects with high visibility (eg, redesigning the company s logo).
Author : United States. Congress. House. Internal Security Committee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Workers World Party and Its Front Organizations, a Study Prepared by the Minority Staff of ..., 93-1 written by United States. Congress. House. Internal Security Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The World's Work written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 2178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 2178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary (Kingsbury) Simkhovitch
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230293103
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (931 download)
Download or read book The City Worker's World in America written by Mary (Kingsbury) Simkhovitch and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X RELIGION Religion is the capacity to face life triumphantly. In discussing the life of working people it is of the first importance to discover whether the group as a whole is hopeful and if so what is the content of the hopes it possesses. Here as in the other aspects of life we have considered, it is not possible to lump all the members of the group under one accurate category. There are persons possessed of high hopes, of indifference, or of despair in every group. But what we have to discover are the main currents of hope as they manifest themselves in the working class. A belief in God is almost as universal as a belief in the rising of the sun. Like that belief it is so taken for granted as to be almost negligible. This kind of belief does not stir the blood or make for action. Life presupposes these beliefs, but they do not necessarily increase vital energy. Such a belief may or may not be a spring of hope. Other religious beliefs similarly are negligible from the point of view of action. Here and there a believer will really believe. He then becomes an exception, almost an eccentricity, sometimes thought of popularly as a pest. For belief makes people uncomfortable. Like a fermenting liquor too strong for its container, belief makes for disruption, a break-up of that calm well-ordered indifference which we have accustomed ourselves to think necessary for social cement. Powerful convinced belief, like its opposite, thoroughgoing scepticism, is rare in all classes. Most people manage to get along without committing themselves wholly to anything. A surrender to truth implies a more closely-knit personality than most people possess. We have invented the name fanatic for the person who stakes all on his convictions, thereby...
Author : Janice Ruth Fine
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801472572
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Worker Centers written by Janice Ruth Fine and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As national policy is debated, a locally based grassroots movement is taking the initiative to assist millions of immigrants in the American workforce facing poor pay, bad working conditions, and few prospects to advance to better jobs. Fine takes a comprehensive look at the rising phenomenon of worker centers, fast-growing institutions that improve the lives of immigrant workers through service advocacy and organizing.—from publisher information.
