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Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day

Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629632511
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day written by Peter Linebaugh and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “May Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system of exploitation, oppression, war, and overall misery, toil, and moil.” So writes celebrated historian Peter Linebaugh in an essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st. It is a day that has made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole—a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. These reflections on the Red and the Green—out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies—are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

Первое мая

Author : Philip Sheldon Foner
Publisher : International Publishers Co
ISBN 13 : 9780717806249
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Первое мая written by Philip Sheldon Foner and published by International Publishers Co. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only account in print of the origins of May Day, with highlights of its first century from around the world. 21 illustrations. Notes. Index.

The Ritual of May Day in Western Europe

Author : Abby Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131701734X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Ritual of May Day in Western Europe written by Abby Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Hobsbawm claimed that the international May Day, which dates back to a proclamation in 1889 by the Second International, 'is perhaps the most ambitious of labour rituals'. The first international May Day demonstrations in 1890 were widely celebrated across Europe and became the one day each year when organized labour could present its goals to the public, an eight-hour workday being the first concrete demand, shortly followed by those for improved working conditions, universal suffrage, peace among nations, and international solidarity. The May Day ritual celebration was the self-assertion and self-definition of the new labour class through class organization. Thus, it was trade unions and social democratic and socialist parties throughout Europe which took the initiative and have sustained May Day as a labour ritual to this day. Part I of this theoretically-informed volume explores how May Day demonstrations have evolved and taken different trajectories in different political contexts. Part II focuses on May Day rituals today. By comparing demonstration level data of over 2000 questionnaires from six countries, including Belgium, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK, the reader is able to gain a thorough understanding of how participants are bestowing meaning on May Day rituals. By concluding with reflections on the future of the May Day ritual in Western Europe, this ground-breaking book provides a detailed analysis of its evolution as a protest event.

The Brief Origins Of May Day

Author : Ema Luginbill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Brief Origins Of May Day written by Ema Luginbill and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889, May Day was chosen as the date for International Workers' Day by the socialists and communists of the Second International, as well as anarchists, labor activists, and leftists in general around the world, to commemorate the Haymarket affair in Chicago and the struggle for an eight-hour working day. International Workers' Day is also called "May Day", but it is a different celebration from the traditional May Day. An essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st, the international May Day holiday. May 1st is a day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole-a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and refusal. This book's reflections on the Red and the Green-out of which arguably the only hope for the future lies-are populated by the likes of Native American anarcho-communist Lucy Parsons, the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, Karl Marx, José Martí, W. E. B. Du Bois, Rosa Luxemburg, SNCC, and countless others, both sentient and verdant. The book is a forceful reminder of the potentialities of the future, for the coming of a time when the powerful will fall, the commons restored, and a better world born anew.

America's Forgotten Holiday

Author : Donna T. Haverty-Stacke
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814737056
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book America's Forgotten Holiday written by Donna T. Haverty-Stacke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though now a largely forgotten holiday in the United States, May Day was founded here in 1886 by an energized labor movement as a part of its struggle for the eight-hour day. In ensuing years, May Day took on new meaning, and by the early 1900s had become an annual rallying point for anarchists, socialists, and communists around the world. Yet American workers and radicals also used May Day to advance alternative definitions of what it meant to be an American and what America should be as a nation. Mining contemporary newspapers, party and union records, oral histories, photographs, and rare film footage, America’s Forgotten Holiday explains how May Days celebrants, through their colorful parades and mass meetings, both contributed to the construction of their own radical American identities and publicized alternative social and political models for the nation. This fascinating story of May Day in America reveals how many contours of American nationalism developed in dialogue with political radicals and workers, and uncovers the cultural history of those who considered themselves both patriotic and dissenting Americans.

The Iron Heel

Author : Jack London
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 177541079X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book The Iron Heel written by Jack London and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Anthony Meredith, a scholar in about the year 2600 AD (or 419 B.O.M. - the Brotherhood of Man), annotates the "Everhard Manuscript", an account that chronicles the years from 1912 to 1932 when the great "Iron Heel" oligarchy rose to power in the United States.

The History of May Day

Author : Alexander Trachtenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The History of May Day written by Alexander Trachtenberg and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

May Day

Author : Gretchen Marquette
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1555977391
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book May Day written by Gretchen Marquette and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You arrive at my altar with no idea what it means to worship--to adore. You haven't even learned it: ecstasy and suffering make the same face. --from "The Offering" May Day is both a distress call and a celebration of the arrival of spring. In this rich and unusually assured first collection, the poet Gretchen Marquette writes of the losses of a brother gone off to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a great love--losses that have left the world charged with absence and grief. But there is also the wonder of the natural world: the deer at the edge of the forest, the dog reliably coaxing the poet beyond herself and into the city park where by tradition every May Day is pageantry, a festival of surviving the long winter. "What does it mean to be in love?" one poem asks. "As it turns out, / the second best thing that can happen to you / is a broken heart." May Day introduces readers to a new poet of depth and power.

May Day

Author : Robin Folvik
Publisher : Between the Lines(CA)
ISBN 13 : 9781926662909
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book May Day written by Robin Folvik and published by Between the Lines(CA). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating May Day and the historical struggles of workers to improve their lives.

Mayday

Author : Nelson DeMille
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759525943
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Mayday written by Nelson DeMille and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fascinating and furiously paced...unrelenting suspense." - New York Times Book Review "[Demille is] a true master." - Dan Brown, #1 bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Maydaythe classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page . . . the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever. Like a growing tidal wave, the escaping air was gathering momentum. A teenaged girl in aisle 18, seat D, near the port-side aisle, her seat dislocated by the original impact, suddenly found herself gripping her seat track on the floor, her overturned seat still strapped to her body. The seatbelt failed and the seat shot down the aisle. She lost her grip and was dragged after it. Her eyes were filled with horror as she dug her nails into the carpet, as the racing air pulled her toward the yawning hole that led outside. Her cries were unheard by even those passengers who sat barely inches away from her struggle. The noise of the escaping air was so loud that it was no longer decipherable as sound, but seemed instead a solid thing pounding at the people in their seats . . .

Origins and Traditions of Mayday

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Origins and Traditions of Mayday written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the full text of an article entitled "The Origins and Traditions of Mayday," by Eugene W. Plawiuk. May Day is celebrated May 1 and is known as the international working class holiday. Details the history of May Day, which originated in pagan Europe. Offers information on the May Queen, the May pole, and the modern celebration of May Day.

Chicago Haymarket Affair, The: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone

Author : Joseph Anthony Rulli
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135747
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Chicago Haymarket Affair, The: A Guide to a Labor Rights Milestone written by Joseph Anthony Rulli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded during a labor demonstration near Haymarket Square. The ensuing gunfire and chaos brought a grisly end to what began as peaceful support for an eight-hour workday and led to the trial and execution of rally organizers. The incident also drew irrevocable attention to a conversation about workers" rights and the role of law enforcement that continues today. In this guide to the key moments and sites of one of Chicago's most confusing and chaotic events, author Joseph Anthony Rulli aims to establish a clearer understanding of its historical significance.

The Morning Exercise as a Socializing Influence

Author : Francis W. Parker School, Chicago
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Morning Exercise as a Socializing Influence written by Francis W. Parker School, Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power in Our Hands

Author : William Bigelow
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0853457530
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (534 download)

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Download or read book Power in Our Hands written by William Bigelow and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This celebrated book provides entertaining, easy-to-use lesson plans for teaching labor history. "Most school teachers are drowned in paper, but here is one book I want to recommend to them. It is a way of getting American teenagers not just interested, but excited and passionate about their history - modern American labor history." - Pete Seeger

The Book of the Year

Author : Anthony F. Aveni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195171549
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Year written by Anthony F. Aveni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day - these are but a handful of modern holidays descended from the red-letter days, seasonal celebrations we have invented and reinvented over more than five millennia to meet our changing human needs. When we explore their origins, the holidays begin to reflect not only who we are but also why, through oppressed by time and thwarted by the forces of nature, we never seem to lose the will to control the future.

The Memory of May Day

Author : Andrea Panaccione
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Memory of May Day written by Andrea Panaccione and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mayday! Mayday!

Author : Chris L. Demarest
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689851612
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Mayday! Mayday! written by Chris L. Demarest and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thirty-foot yacht, adrift well out to sea, sends, "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Please respond to our plea!" Hearing this call for help, the United States Coast Guard leaps into action. A team of four highly trained rescue specialists head out in an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter. Battling fierce conditions, the Coast Guard team finally locates the disabled boat, rescues the crew, treats injured passengers, and carries them back to safety. Complemented by dramatic, striking illustrations, Chris L. Demarest's text brings into vivid focus one of the many important jobs performed by the U.S. Coast Guard. A detailed author's note provides additional information about the search-and-rescue process, making this a terrific book for any school or home library.