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The Fragile Bridge

Author : Steve Golin
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566390057
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Fragile Bridge written by Steve Golin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this full-length study of the 1913 Paterson silk strike, Steve Golin examines the creative collaboration between the silk workers, organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, and Greenwich Village intellectuals. Although the strike was defeated, this alliance could become a model for the American left because it suggests the possibilities of connecting economic, political, and cultural struggles.Combining perspectives from labor history, social history, and intellectual history Golin argues that while the silk workers began the 1913 strike and controlled it themselves, the IWW helped them create institutions that supported the strike and reinforced its radically democratic character. The deadlock in Paterson dictated the need for a "bridge" to New York that was facilitated by a growing mutual trust between the Wobblies and intellectuals from Greenwich Village. At the height of the struggle, the IWW and the Village radicals joined the workers in presenting a powerful strike pageant in Madison Square Garden.The story of the 1913 silk strike is important because it challenges long-held conservative assumptions about labor history, including the elitist role of skilled workers, the bureaucratic function of union organization, and the irrelevance of intellectuals. Although the strikers were ultimately defeated, the strike's failure had more damaging consequences for the IWW and the intellectuals than for the workers themselves and Golin views this loss as a major turning point for the American left. Author note: Steve Golin is Professor of History at Bloomfield College in New Jersey.

A New Jersey Anthology

Author : Maxine N. Lurie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813549149
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book A New Jersey Anthology written by Maxine N. Lurie and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more. The contributors are Michal R. Belknap, Patricia U. Bonomi, Lyle W. Dorsett, John P. Dwyer, Jim Fisher, Charles E. Funnell, Steve Golin, Bradley M. Gottfried, Paul E. Johnson, David L. Kirp, Mark Edward Lender, Maxine N. Lurie, Richard P. McCormick, Mary R. Murrin, Larry A. Rosenthal, Amy Shapiro, Warren E. Stickle III, Lorraine E. Williams, Giles R. Wright

Of Bridges

Author : Thomas Harrison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022682649X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Of Bridges written by Thomas Harrison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a philosophical history of bridges—both literal bridges and their symbolic counterparts—and the acts of cultural connection they embody. “Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. And it is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, and literary and ideological figurations, Of Bridges organizes a poetic and philosophical history of bridges into nine thematic clusters. Leaping in lucid prose between distant times and places, Thomas Harrison questions why bridges are built and where they lead. He probes links forged by religion between life’s transience and eternity as well as the consolidating ties of music, illustrated by the case of the blues. He investigates bridges in poetry, as flash points in war, and the megabridges of our globalized world. He illuminates real and symbolic crossings facing migrants each day and the affective connections that make persons and societies cohere. In readings of literature, film, philosophy, and art, Harrison engages in a profound reflection on how bridges form and transform cultural communities. Of Bridges is a mesmerizing, vertiginous tale of bridges both visible and invisible, both lived and imagined.

After-School Theatre Programs for At-Risk Teenagers

Author : Philip Zwerling
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612056
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book After-School Theatre Programs for At-Risk Teenagers written by Philip Zwerling and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where intervention programs such as D.A.R.E. and "Scared Straight" have failed to adequately address the problems of at-risk teenagers, inexpensive and easily-implemented after school theatre programs may offer promising new possibilities. This book suggests that low-cost, non-coercive theatre programs can demonstrably lower the incidence of youth violence, drug use, teen pregnancy, truancy, and gang membership. The author considers the problems facing today's teenagers, discusses the history of using theatre for social change in the United States and Britain, and takes an in-depth look at three U.S. theatre programs. An appendix provides an alphabetical directory of 106 after school theatre programs in the U.S., including contact information and a brief description of each program.

Living the Revolution

Author : Jennifer Guglielmo
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807833568
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Living the Revolution written by Jennifer Guglielmo and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Yet until now, Italian women's political activism

A People's Art History of the United States

Author : Nicolas Lampert
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595589317
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book A People's Art History of the United States written by Nicolas Lampert and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough–;and–;tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day. Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically charged narrative that spans the conquest of the Americas, the American Revolution, slavery and abolition, western expansion, the suffragette movement and feminism, civil rights movements, environmental movements, LGBT movements, antiglobalization movements, contemporary antiwar movements, and beyond. A People's Art History of the United States introduces us to key works of American radical art alongside dramatic retellings of the histories that inspired them. Stylishly illustrated with over two hundred images, this book is nothing less than an alternative education for anyone interested in the powerful role that art plays in our society.

The Fragile Earth

Author : David Remnick
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063017563
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Fragile Earth written by David Remnick and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book One of the Daily Beast’s 5 Essential Books to Read Before the Election A collection of the New Yorker’s groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of climate change—including writing from Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, Ian Frazier, Kathryn Schulz, and more Just one year after climatologist James Hansen first came before a Senate committee and testified that the Earth was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben’s seminal essay “The End of Nature,” the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.

Names and Their Histories

Author : Isaac Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Names and Their Histories written by Isaac Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Etymological Geography ... With an Introduction by John Stuart Blackie

Author : Christina BLACKIE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Etymological Geography ... With an Introduction by John Stuart Blackie written by Christina BLACKIE and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God in the Image of Woman

Author : D.V. Bernard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678991
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book God in the Image of Woman written by D.V. Bernard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genetic apocalypse is ravaging the earth, women are disappearing from the planet, and the only hope to keep civilization from crumbling is a ten-year-old girl. In the future, people lose the ability to have daughters; and as women begin to disappear from a world already gripped by chaos, some people begin to think that a 10-year-old black girl will be the next Messiah. Seven years after the onset of this genetic apocalypse, all women have disappeared from cities like New York. Civilization, itself, seems to have ground to a halt as men, numbed by the holographic pleasures of their technological age, wait for the inevitable death of their species. It is then that a powerful military force, known simply as The Horde, begins a systematic offensive against the world's great cities. As this final battle unfolds, the girl presumed to be God escapes from the fortress where The Horde had been keeping her and thousands of other women. Once free, she forms a series of alliances—first with a cult convinced of her divinity, then with the scientist originally responsible for the genetic apocalypse, and finally with a man without a past, whose evolving conceptualization of reality seems to be the key to saving the human race. Interwoven with a rich mosaic of characters—like the seemingly supernatural Quibb; the industrial magnate, Shaka; the gender-defying cyber witch, Circe; and the revolutionary firebrand, Tio Mendez—God in the Image of Woman tells the epic story of people searching for their humanity in an age where the end of the human race seems terrifyingly close.

Etymological Geography...

Author : C. Blackie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Etymological Geography... written by C. Blackie and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Screen Saver

Author : Noel McKeehan
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557110025
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Screen Saver written by Noel McKeehan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some fairly serious shit has happened in the last sixty years. As fate would have it, I was fairly close to the central point of a lot of that shit - albeit in some cases only briefly; "shit" it seems, has a fairly long half life. As time has passed I have found it increasingly difficult -impossible really - to turn off a continued remembrance of the events and places and people that inhabited the story boards of all of that shit. They just won't leave me alone. So I have written it, and them, all down.One bookend of the story was my involvement in the "war effort", as we called the Vietnam debacle. The other was the near demise of IBM. Between those bookends there lurk a wide variety of people, experiences and events that always seemed, as they occurred, to be coherently additive to the total story.

10 Lifesavers for Every Couple

Author : David Hawkins
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736931139
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book 10 Lifesavers for Every Couple written by David Hawkins and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all couples experience seasons of relational stress. But as clinical psychologist David Hawkins shows, these times are predictable and manageable. In fact, they can even lead to positive changes and renewed growth. This easy-to-read handbook highlights important warning signals, helping readers avoid many serious consequences of relational trouble. Couples will discover how to call a truce, create stability, and reestablish trust. They'll also learn to... explore the causes of conflict, including longstanding patterns and recent trauma humbly and honestly commit to the process of change eliminate barriers to growth, such as denial, shortcuts, and simplistic solutions identify and build on good things in the relationship develop new skills for communication and conflict resolution Packed with biblical wisdom and practical information from the counseling office, 10 Lifesavers for Every Couple affirms the value of marriage and empowers couples to grow through their times of crisis.

Remapping the Humanities

Author : Mary Garrett
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814333693
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Remapping the Humanities written by Mary Garrett and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative collection demonstrating the rich potential for interdisciplinary learning found within the network of university-based humanities centers. Remapping the Humanities celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Wayne State University Humanities Center by bringing together essays that illustrate the richness of public conversations developed in interdisciplinary humanities centers. The contributors to this collection represent more than a dozen disciplines--including philosophy, English, political science, history, law, comparative literature, and Spanish--and, taken together, their essays illustrate an ongoing remapping of the intellectual landscape as scholars from across university departments engage one another in unpredictable ways. This volume is divided into four thematic sections: Identity and Community, Remembering and Forgetting, Nationalism and Globalism, and Toward (Post)Modernity. Yet the essays deliberately represent a range of theoretical perspectives that interact synergistically, such as feminism and postcolonial studies, or literary criticism and art history. They also tackle topics as varied as the formation of the modern family in France and the inculcation of civic virtue in American cities, and they draw freely from different sources of evidence like newspaper accounts, popular literature, paintings, and diaries. Remapping the Humanities includes unique touches such as a portfolio of full-color images and an audio CD of Celtic-inspired jazz. In addition, a preface by Walter Edwards, academic director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State University, gives some background on this institution and the work being done there. The importance of Remapping the Humanities ultimately lies in its refusal to say that learning has ended and the example it provides of the value of calculated ferment and intellectual instability. Educators involved with or wanting to learn more about interdisciplinary research will appreciate this unique collection.

At the Edge of Music

Author : Josephine deBois
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514477734
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book At the Edge of Music written by Josephine deBois and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ludwig holds the last cords as the music totally dies out. Nobody moves while his hands are still slightly lifted. Finally, he lowers his hands and lets his arms fall down along his body. He stands deeply concentrated with his head bowed. With one hand, he brushes his hair back. He turns to the audience. An enormous applause evolves to standing ovations. Ludwig turns and lifts his arms toward the audience. He turns back to orchestra and again lifts his arms. Finally, he again faces the audience and stands with the orchestra and the singers behind him. He smiles and almost laughs, totally delighted as though he cannot believe the achievement. The musicians zap their instruments as their standing applause. Ludwig again lifts his arms and embraces the audience. He bows deeply. He turns around and walks between the musicians toward the door to the concert corridor leaving the undiminished applause behind. The singers follow him.

Cultures of Darkness

Author : Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583678182
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Darkness written by Bryan D. Palmer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs--those who defied authority, choosing to live outside the defining cultural dominions of early insurgent and, later, dominant capitalism are what Bryan D. Palmer calls people of the night. These lives of opposition, or otherness, were seen by the powerful as deviant, rejecting authority, and consequently threatening to the established order. Constructing a rich historical tapestry of example and experience spanning eight centuries, Palmer details lives of exclusion and challenge, as the "night travels" of the transgressors clash repeatedly with the powerful conventions of their times. Nights of liberation and exhilarating desire--sexual and social--are at the heart of this study. But so too are the dangers of darkness, as marginality is coerced into corners of pressured confinement, or the night is used as a cover for brutalizing terror, as was the case in Nazi Germany or the lynching of African Americans. Making extensive use of the interdisciplinary literature of marginality found in scholarly work in history, sociology, cultural studies, literature, anthropology, and politics, Palmer takes an unflinching look at the rise and transformation of capitalism as it was lived by the dispossessed and those stamped with the mark of otherness.

Carlo Tresca

Author : Nunzio Pernicone
Publisher : AK Press
ISBN 13 : 1849350434
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Carlo Tresca written by Nunzio Pernicone and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nunzio Pernicone’s biography uses Carlo Tresca’s (1879-1943) storied life?as newspaper editor, labor agitator, anarchist, anti-communist, street fighter, and opponent of fascism?as a springboard to investigate Italian immigrant and radical communities in the United States. From his work on behalf of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee, and his assassination on the streets of New York City, Tresca’s passion left a permanent mark on the American map. This edition, both revised and expanded, provides new insight into the American labor movement and a unique perspective on the immigrant experience.