The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Catalogs, Union
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Author : Melinda Chateauvert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0252056841
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first national trade union for African Americans. Standard BSCP histories focus on the men who built the union. Yet the union's Ladies' Auxiliary played an essential role in shaping public debates over black manhood and unionization, setting political agendas for the black community, and crafting effective strategies to win racial and economic justice. Melinda Chateauvert explores the history of the Ladies' Auxiliary and the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters who made up its membership and used the union to claim respectability and citizenship. As she shows, the Auxiliary actively educated other women and children about the labor movement, staged consumer protests, and organized local and national civil rights campaigns ranging from the 1941 March on Washington to school integration to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Chateauvert also sheds light on the plight of Pullman maids, who—relegated to the Auxiliary—found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.
Author : Mildred A. Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271015675
"Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Mildred Allen Beik
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 1996-09-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0271029900
In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
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Publisher :
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 1980
Category :
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Author : Peter Reeves
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9814260835
Well over a million people of Sri Lankan origin live outside South Asia. The Encyclopedia of the Sri Lanka Diaspora is the first comprehensive study of the lives, culture, beliefs and attitudes of immigrants and refugees from this island. The volume is a joint publication between the Institute of South Asian Studies, NUS, and Editions Didier Millet. It focuses on the relationship between culture and economy in the Sri Lanka diaspora in the context of globalisation, increased transnational culture flows and new communication technologies. In addition to the geographic mapping of the Sri Lanka diaspora in the various continents, thematic chapters include topics on “long distance nationalism”, citizenship, Sinhala, Tamil and Burgher disapora identities, religion and the spread of Buddhism, as well as the Sri Lankan cultural impact on other nations.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Celebration of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Greater City of New York
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Stanley A. Kochanek
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520319125
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
Author : Usha Iyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,13 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0190938730
A new look at Indian film dance, this book engages with the display and mobilization of the female dancing body to propose new models for theorizing film dance and music more generally. Author Usha Iyer offers a new understanding of how female dancer-actors impact narratives and the music composed for them.
Author : PUBLICATIONS DIVISION
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2017-11-03
Category :
ISBN : 8123025653