In the early nineteenth century, the rise of industrialism and the accelerated enclosure of farmable land combined to drive England's rural population into rapidly growing urban centers. London, in particular, was ill-equipped to deal with the resulting population boom, and labo…
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This constructionist phenomenological dissertation study explored stories from nine working-class, first-generation college students, specifically how middle-class socialization on a four-year university campus located in the Mountain West region of the United States impacts the…
During the Progressive Era, a number of reform mayors assumed office in cities throughout America. Three Midwestern cities, Detroit, Michigan, and Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio, were particularly blessed in this regard. Hazen S. Pingree of Detroit, elected in 1889, challenged priva…
This thesis examines the meanings and experiences of citizenship for a particular group of working class young people. By using an ethnographic methodology it identifies the different social processes that influence how they experience citizenship and how they perceive themselve…
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…
This thesis discusses the complex and ambiguous relationship between the working class and religion in early twentieth century English Canada. This relationship is assessed through the examination of the national and local response of the Protestant and Catholic churches to labo…
Many companies located within the United States have cut costs by outsourcing back office managerial positions. The impact of outsourcing on American workers has been investigated. Although researchers have examined the business motivations for outsourcing and foreign direct inv…
My thesis project, American Standard, comprised of the works Fixtures and Lights Out, addresses issues surrounding automation by utilizing processes that have rendered the shift-worker nearly obsolete. In American Standard, I have replaced workers with 3D scanning,
In the early twenty-first century, national media claimed that the the Fox River Valley was one of the most conservative parts of Wisconsin. It has not always been so. This dissertation demonstrates that the region has been on the frontline of battles over the shape and meaning …
This study seeks to better understand the heterogeneous lives and political cultures of the poor majorities during a period in Mexican history (1970s-1990s) of capitalist transition to neoliberalism and political democratization. The emerging historiography on 1970s and 1980s Me…
This thesis is the first to examine Irish American Union service using the words of the ordinary rank and file who fought it. It does so through an analysis of more than 1100 letters written by almost 400 Irish American servicemen, which were uncovered through an assessment of c…
בעבודה זו אני מבקש לבחון את תהליך התפתחותו של מוסד השביתה בישראל בשנים 1954-1949 ,דרך הצבת העובדים עצמם כסובייקט המרכזי של יחסי העב ו דה. נקודת המבט שממנה יצאתי במחקר זה היא בחינה של ה'היסטוריה מלמטה'. מרבית הכתיבה ההיסטורית ביחס לתנועת העבודה עוסקת בבחינה של המנהיגים, המוסדות ו…
In the past 60 years, the number of low-to-working class White voters who have deserted the Democratic Party and instead support Republican candidates has steadily increased. Low-to-working-class Americans of other races have not abandoned the Democratic Party in comparable ways…
This dissertation examines shop floor politics and culture in Egypt. I analyze how working class identity emerges at the point of production; how 'economic relations' inside the factory are simultaneously relations of signification and meaning; and how the production of commodit…