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Alyssa on
20 August 2010, 2:02 pm
Back in April we mentioned a call for papers for the inaugural edition of The Journal of the Civil War Era, a peer-review journal published in collaboration with UNC Press and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University. There’s been great response, and the issues are starting to take [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, American History, Civil War, History, Labor Studies, Law / Legal History, Political Science, Southern Studies, UNC Press News, Women's Studies.
Tagged 19th century, civil war, History, Journal of the Civil War Era
Posted by
matt on
25 March 2010, 8:11 am
As a continuation of our series of posts on National Women’s History Month, today’s post will be about an event from 99 years ago today–the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City. While horrific–146 workers, mostly poor Italian, German, and Jewish women between the ages of eight and twenty perished–the fire at Triangle Shirtwaist [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, Gender Studies, History, Labor Studies, Women's Studies.
Tagged 1911, Annelise Orleck, Common Sense and a Little Fire, fire, ILGWU, immigrants, International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, Italian, Jennifer Guglielmo, labor history, labor strike, Living the Revolution, National Women's History Month, New York City, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, Uprise of the Thirty Thousand, Uprise of the Twenty Thousand
Posted by
Ellen on
17 March 2010, 11:04 am
William J. Bauer Jr. (Wailacki and Concow, and an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes) is author of the new book We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941. The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, History, Labor Studies, Native American Studies, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged american indian historians, concow, ella deloria, First Peoples, kinship, round valley indian tribes, wailacki, william j. bauer jr.
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admin on
24 July 2009, 1:21 pm
The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is a bill aimed to remove barriers to collective bargaining in the workplace. It includes provisions enabling a card check system for voting to establish a union and guaranteeing that workers who unionize can negotiate a contract with their employer. Catherine L. Fisk, author of Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation [...] Read more »
Filed under Current Events, Labor Studies, Politics, UNC Press Authors.
Tagged arbitration, card check, catherine l. fisk, contract negotiation, efca, employee free choice act, labor-management relations, unionizing
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admin on
2 April 2009, 6:51 am
I wrote briefly last week (in rather vague terms) about some of Archie Green’s accomplishments. Over the weekend, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times both published lengthy obituaries. I wanted to offer a more personal glimpse of him here from a longtime friend and colleague of Green’s, Robert Cantwell. In 2001 UNC Press [...] Read more »
Filed under American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Guest Bloggers, Labor Studies, UNC Press News, folklore.
Tagged archie green, iww, laborlore, robert cantwell, vernacular culture, wobblies
Posted by
admin on
25 March 2009, 4:03 pm
We’re mourning two great losses over here at the Press this afternoon. In addition to being UNC Press authors, both men were giants in their fields, and indeed helped establish and define new fields of scholarship. Both lived long, fulfilling lives in which their pioneering intellectual pursuits served the public good. Both gave of themselves [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Civil Rights, Labor Studies, North Carolina, Podcasts, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News.
Tagged african american history, archie green, folklore, john hope franklin, laborlore, musicologist
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admin on
11 December 2008, 1:56 pm
YouTube: Billy Bragg – There Is Power in a Union Laid off with a mere 3 days’ notice (instead of the legally required 60 days) and denied severance, health insurance, and earned vacation pay, about 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago have been peacefully occupying the Republic factory for five days. Last [...]
Filed under American History, Current Events, Gender Studies, History, Labor Studies.
Tagged billy bragg, blacklisted filmmakers, chicago united electrical workers local 1110, chicago workers strike, empire zinc strike, hanover new mexico, labor unions, mexican american miners, miners union, picket lines, republic windows and doors, salt of the earth, solidarity, there is power in a union
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admin on
24 June 2008, 3:29 pm
The Michael Harrington Book Award, given annually by the New Political Science Section of the American Political Science Association, recognizes “a recent outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.” This year’s prize has been awarded to Geoff Mann for his book Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, [...]
Filed under American History, American Studies, Awards, Labor Studies.
Tagged citizenship, gender, Geoff Mann, labor, Michael Harrington Book Award, Our Daily Bread, Political Science, race
