epub |eng | 1936-01-01 | Author:Steinbeck, John [Steinbeck, John]

CHAPTER 19 ONCE CALIFORNIA BELONGED to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Cesar Chavez

Twenty Days in Jail After going to jail for civil disobedience, Chavez spoke to El Malcriado about the diversity he saw in jail and about the tragedy of poverty leading ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-12 | Author:David Frayne

At university, it seemed that Adam had enjoyed a sense of continuity between his work and his leisure, choosing to do programming in his spare time, but his unhappiness at ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Mackaman, Thomas

Such unstated prejudices revealed themselves in the various investigations into the strikes failure. Interestingly, the Chicago Commission on Race Relations, which interviewed hundreds of black workers and dozens of employers ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-29 | Author:Mary Harris Jones [Jones, Mary Harris]

Mother Jones with the Miners’ Children In many mines I met the trapper boys. Little chaps who open the door for the mule when it comes in for the coal ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alex J. Wood;

Discounting Wages As was the case for PartnershipCo, the absence of a strong internal labor market can be seen in the fact that pay at ConflictCo was set at only ...

epub |eng | 1966-07-15 | Author:JOSEPH G. RAYBACK

The Federation’s Revival The years between 1904 and 1911 were very unhappy ones for the American Federation of Labor. They were years when the very existence of the A.F.L. was ...

epub |eng | 2016-07-01 | Author:Osvaldo Bayer

CHAPTER SIX: THE VICTORS (FOR HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW) “The ranchers dearly wanted the revolt put down before the shearing began. The numerous executions sowed terror and allowed them ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Robert F. Alegre [Alegre, Robert F.]

4 The “War of Position” The Making of a Strike Mariachi bands filled union locals across the country, singing and strumming their guitars for workers celebrating the return of democratic ...

epub |eng | | Author:August H. Nimtz

Comparing Lenin and Weber in Real-Time 1905 Most evident about Weber’s backstory to 1905 is the absence of any sustained discussion about its essential dynamo from the very beginning in ...

epub |eng | 2018-07-14 | Author:Heather Fowler-Salamini [Fowler-Salamini, Heather]

9. Military band of the SOECC, 1946. Photograph by California. Courtesy of Brígida Siriaco García. Like other union bands, the SOECC band served a legitimizing function for the labor movement. ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-06-01 | Author:Jenny Chan & Mark Selden & Ngai Pun [Chan, Jenny]

In the Shenzhen No. 2 People’s Hospital, Tingzhen’s mother declared: “We want the government to hold Foxconn accountable and to prevent similar tragedies from happening!” Grief In a subsequent private ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Jenny Jansson & Katrin Uba

3.5 Trade Unions’ Political Engagement on YouTube It has been suggested that clearly and openly engaging in politics could help to revitalize the trade union movement. As social media is ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:David Witwer

7 THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS: REVELATION AND RHETORIC In August 1957, Life magazine produced a two-page photo spread of the McClellan Committee’s hearings in New York City that provided an iconic ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joe William Trotter Jr.

CONCLUSION By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Modern Black Freedom struggle had dismantled the segregationist system. Significant numbers of blacks from poor and working-class families moved into middle-class, ...