Author: Carol Quirke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199877556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of the 1919 strike wave, photo-essays in the nationally popular LIFE Magazine, and even photos taken by a union camera club. Quirke anchors her interpretations in a lively historical narrative that takes readers from Washington D.C. hearings, to small towns in Indiana and Pennsylvania, to local union halls and to New York City boardrooms. Illuminating why unions, employers, and news publishers vied to represent workers with the camera's eye, Eyes on Labor explores how Americans understood the complex and contradictory portrait of labor they produced.
Through Jaundiced Eyes
Author: William Puette
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875461854
Category : Employees
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Cover the period 1930 to 1991. Contains lists of movies, television news specials and documentaries, and plot synopses of television dramas about labour unions.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780875461854
Category : Employees
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Cover the period 1930 to 1991. Contains lists of movies, television news specials and documentaries, and plot synopses of television dramas about labour unions.
Work Engendered
Author: Ava Baron
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711245
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy—between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women—in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711245
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In tobacco fields, auto and radio factories, cigarmakers' tenements, textile mills, print shops, insurance companies, restaurants, and bars, notions of masculinity and femininity have helped shape the development of work and the working class. The fourteen original essays brought together here shed new light on the importance of gender for economic and class analysis and for the study of men as well as women workers. After an introduction by Ava Baron addressing current problems in conceptualizing gender and work, chapters by leading historians consider how gender has colored relations of power and hierarchy—between employers and workers, men and boys, whites and blacks, native-born Americans and immigrants, as well as between men and women—in North America from the 1830s to the 1970s. Individual essays explore a spectrum of topics including union bureaucratization, protective legislation, and consumer organizing. They examine how workers' concerns about gender identity influenced their job choices, the ways in which they thought about and performed their work, and the strategies they adopted toward employers and other workers. Taken together, the essays illuminate the plasticity of gender as men and women contest its meaning and its implications for class relations. Anyone interested in labor history, women's history, and the sociology of work or gender will want to read this pathbreaking book.
Who Rules America Now?
Author: G. William Domhoff
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Publisher: Touchstone
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.
Eyes on Labor
Author: Carol Quirke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199877556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of the 1919 strike wave, photo-essays in the nationally popular LIFE Magazine, and even photos taken by a union camera club. Quirke anchors her interpretations in a lively historical narrative that takes readers from Washington D.C. hearings, to small towns in Indiana and Pennsylvania, to local union halls and to New York City boardrooms. Illuminating why unions, employers, and news publishers vied to represent workers with the camera's eye, Eyes on Labor explores how Americans understood the complex and contradictory portrait of labor they produced.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199877556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In the twentieth century's first decades, U.S. workers waged an epic struggle to achieve security through unions; simultaneously Americans came to interpret current events through newspaper photographs. Eyes on Labor brings these two revolutions together, revealing how news photography brought workers into the nation's mainstream. Carol Quirke focuses on images ignored by scholars but seen by millions of Americans in the news of the day. Part visual analysis, part labor and cultural history, Quirke analyzes over one hundred photographs: stereographs of the Uprising of 1877, tabloid photos of the 1919 strike wave, photo-essays in the nationally popular LIFE Magazine, and even photos taken by a union camera club. Quirke anchors her interpretations in a lively historical narrative that takes readers from Washington D.C. hearings, to small towns in Indiana and Pennsylvania, to local union halls and to New York City boardrooms. Illuminating why unions, employers, and news publishers vied to represent workers with the camera's eye, Eyes on Labor explores how Americans understood the complex and contradictory portrait of labor they produced.
The Bridgemen's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Construction workers
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
Loues Labor's Lost
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Love's Labor's Gain
Author: Eustace Charles
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595093264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Discouraged with the direction his life in St. Croix was headed, Gianni left for a new beginning in New York City. In New York things seemed to fall into place for Gianni. He was succeeding in his profession as a paralegal for the Legal Aid Society, he was attending church and he had found love with a beautiful young woman. Then his life took an abrupt turn. He was fired from his job and his relationship with the woman he loved dissolved. Determined to succeed he started his own business that quickly brought him riches. But he was still lonely and longed for a loving relationship. She came to him in a dream, the woman his heart told him was the one, but would he find her and would it work?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595093264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Discouraged with the direction his life in St. Croix was headed, Gianni left for a new beginning in New York City. In New York things seemed to fall into place for Gianni. He was succeeding in his profession as a paralegal for the Legal Aid Society, he was attending church and he had found love with a beautiful young woman. Then his life took an abrupt turn. He was fired from his job and his relationship with the woman he loved dissolved. Determined to succeed he started his own business that quickly brought him riches. But he was still lonely and longed for a loving relationship. She came to him in a dream, the woman his heart told him was the one, but would he find her and would it work?
Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As y@u like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Dramatic Works ...: Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description