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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Ohio Valley Folk Publications
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Flatheads and Spooneys
Author: Jens Lund
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Catalog of Folklore, Folklife, and Folk Songs
Author: Cleveland Public Library. John G. White Department
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Folk Publications
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Catalog of Folklore and Folk Songs
Author: Cleveland Public Library. John G. White Department
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Citizen Employers
Author: Jeffrey Haydu
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801461626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionization and collective bargaining. However, the ideology deployed against labor's efforts to organize at the grassroots level has received less attention. In Citizen Employers, Jeffrey Haydu compares the very different employer attitudes and experiences that guided labor-capital relations in two American cities, Cincinnati and San Francisco, in the period between the Civil War and World War I. His account puts these attitudes and experiences into the larger framework of capitalist class formation and businessmen's collective identities. Cincinnati and San Francisco saw dramatically different developments in businessmen's class alignments, civic identities, and approach to unions. In Cincinnati, manufacturing and commercial interests joined together in a variety of civic organizations and business clubs. These organizations helped members overcome their conflicts and identify their interests with the good of the municipal community. That pervasive ideology of "business citizenship" provided much of the rationale for opposing unions. In sharp contrast, San Francisco's businessmen remained divided among themselves, opted to side with white labor against the Chinese, and advocated treating both unions and business organizations as legitimate units of economic and municipal governance. Citizen Employers closely examines the reasons why these two bourgeoisies, located in comparable cities in the same country at the same time, differed so radically in their degree of unity and in their attitudes toward labor unions, and how their views would ultimately converge and harden against labor by the 1920s. With its nuanced depiction of civic ideology and class formation and its application of social movement theory to economic elites, this book offers a new way to look at employer attitudes toward unions and collective bargaining. That new approach, Haydu argues, is equally applicable to understanding challenges facing the American labor movement today.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801461626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionization and collective bargaining. However, the ideology deployed against labor's efforts to organize at the grassroots level has received less attention. In Citizen Employers, Jeffrey Haydu compares the very different employer attitudes and experiences that guided labor-capital relations in two American cities, Cincinnati and San Francisco, in the period between the Civil War and World War I. His account puts these attitudes and experiences into the larger framework of capitalist class formation and businessmen's collective identities. Cincinnati and San Francisco saw dramatically different developments in businessmen's class alignments, civic identities, and approach to unions. In Cincinnati, manufacturing and commercial interests joined together in a variety of civic organizations and business clubs. These organizations helped members overcome their conflicts and identify their interests with the good of the municipal community. That pervasive ideology of "business citizenship" provided much of the rationale for opposing unions. In sharp contrast, San Francisco's businessmen remained divided among themselves, opted to side with white labor against the Chinese, and advocated treating both unions and business organizations as legitimate units of economic and municipal governance. Citizen Employers closely examines the reasons why these two bourgeoisies, located in comparable cities in the same country at the same time, differed so radically in their degree of unity and in their attitudes toward labor unions, and how their views would ultimately converge and harden against labor by the 1920s. With its nuanced depiction of civic ideology and class formation and its application of social movement theory to economic elites, this book offers a new way to look at employer attitudes toward unions and collective bargaining. That new approach, Haydu argues, is equally applicable to understanding challenges facing the American labor movement today.
New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Subject Catalog; of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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I Scream, You Scream
Author: Lillian Morrison
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834956
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A collection of traditional rhymes, chants, taunts, autograph album rhymes, valentines, street cries, and jingles about food.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874834956
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
A collection of traditional rhymes, chants, taunts, autograph album rhymes, valentines, street cries, and jingles about food.