"During the Victorian period, England changed from being a predominantly rural to an increasingly urban and suburban society. Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England explores visual and literary representations of clothing in the context of these rapid changes in Victorian l…
"During the Victorian period, England changed from being a predominantly rural to an increasingly urban and suburban society. Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England explores visual and literary representations of clothing in the context of these rapid changes in Victorian l…
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: race in the history of U.S. management -- Facing South -- The Antebellum South and the origins of race management : African slavery, Indian removal, and Irish labor -- Managing the Negro : the African slave as asset and animal -- Facing West -- F…
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden Menschen beschrieben, die in ihrer Mehrheit zu den sogenannt "kleinen Leuten" zählen. Dabei geht es um ganz unterschiedliche Dinge: um ihre Biographie und ihren Alltag, um ihre Vorlieben und Wünsche wie um ihre Sichtweise von sich und der …
Trump, Carrier, and the invisible worker -- The rise and fall of labor reporting -- The news media's shift to upscale audiences -- The changing news narrative about workers -- Workers and political voice -- "Job killers" in the news -- Rethinking news about American workers "An…
"An exploration of how workers in the U.S. have been invisible for decades because the mainstream news media lost sight of the American working class"--
"Labor Relations Democratic institutions have succeeded far better in the Federal Republic of Germany than in the Weimar Republic, and the lessons of this experience are important for anyone who hopes to encourage the spread of democracy in the world today. Most scholars focus o…
Pharaoh's Workers focuses on the archaeological site at Deir el Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Luxor. The workers who prepared the royal tombs and lived there in what has been called "the earliest known artists' colony" left a rich store of artifacts and documents throug…
In one village in western Thebes, villagers worked for centuries on the Egyptian tombs and created timeless beauty. Lesko explores the known facts surrounding their everyday lives and their business partnership with the ruling class of ancient Egypt.
Introduction -- Shortages and strikes, 1945-1948 -- The era of "The treaty of Detroit," 1949-1950 -- No longer the arsenal of democracy, 1951-1952 -- A post-Korean War boom, 1953 -- A "painfully inconvenient" recession, 1954 -- The fifties in one year, 1955 -- "A severe and prol…
"It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth. Daniel J. Clark …
