Labor movement

Edited and with an afterword by George LipsitzBlue-collar intellectual and activist, Stan Weir devoted his life to the advocacy of his fellow workers. Singlejack Solidarity offers a rare look at life and social relations as seen from the factory, dockside, and the shop floor. Ga…

Singlejack solidarity

by Weir, Stan

fromCritical American studies series

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Singlejack solidarity

by Lipsitz, George, Weir, Stan

fromCritical American studies series

0 Type: Book

Solidarity Infrastructure: Gender and Race Solidarity and Cross-Class Coalit…

by Stilley, Jeff

0 Type: Thesis

This dissertation investigates alliances across gender, race, and class in the dynamics of working class solidarity. The analysis examines the geographically bounded organizational networks, community spatial organization, and political cultures in Kansas City that resulted in a…

From the Ashes of the Old: A Critical Analysis of American Labor, Social Mov…

by Barrington, Adam

0 Type: Thesis

This project is an analysis of the ways in which the power structure maintains hegemony and ideological dominance when confronted with challenges. Challenges to the power structure typically emerge in the form of social movements. Using conventional and Marxist theories, the Ame…

A Deal with the Devil: The Political Economy of Lebanon, 1943-75

by Nick Chafic Kardahji

0 Type: Thesis

This dissertation is a contribution to the reframing of the history of postcolonial Lebanon, and in particular the era between independence from France and the outbreak of the civil war of 1975-90. The dissertation’s central argument is that rather than seeing postcolonial Leban…

The workers' paradise: Edward Bellamy and the “labor question,” 1888–1898

by Rob Vaughan

0 Type: Thesis

In the 1870s America was largely a nation of farms and small towns controlled by the values of Main Street, including beliefs in individualism, laissez-faire capitalism, and progress. By 1900, however, it was more a country of big cities with a Wall Street ethos and characterize…

Turn to the working class: The New Left, Black liberation, and the United St…

by Kieran Walsh Taylor

0 Type: Thesis

In the late 1960s and 1970s, thousands of young black, white, Asian, and Latino radicals from diverse class backgrounds concluded that a deep and long-lasting transformation of the nation's politics required them to concentrate their organizing efforts on worksites and within tr…