Cornell university press jun 2003 (9 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How did the Chicago Teamsters Local 705, once notorious for corruption and despotism, become an organization that the Wall Street Journal hailed as 'a model of reform' In this compelling narrative, Bruno tells of the often violent, always contentious struggle to reform one of the nation's most powerful and independent union locals. During the worst years, Chicago Teamsters operated under thinly veiled threats and settled differences by fistfights. Workers who questioned the powerful leadership faced physical intimidation, verbal abuse, and trumped-up charges that threatened their jobs. With the expulsion of key leaders in the early 1990s, however, a decade-long struggle for control of the union began as Local 705 cast off the old days of coercion and payoffs. Reformers encouraged rank-and-file Teamsters to choose their own leaders, and after two successive open elections, an unprecedented number of Teamsters turned out to vote in a dramatic 2000 election featuring five political slates and a diverse range of issues. Clear and captivating, Reforming the Chicago Teamsters raises important national issues about the balance of power between large corporations and working-class Americans, the role of workplace democracy in civil society, and the ways unions can both hinder and promote worker interests.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book features 58 production stills and frame enlargements and also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labour films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Examining the dynamics of language development in a changing political and social order, Gorham shows how language cultures struggled to gain authority in Russia after the Revolution of 1917.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ryan puts familiar literary works such as Herman Melville's 'The Confidence-Man', Frederick Douglass's 'My Bondage and My Freedom', and Harriet Beecher Stowe's 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' back into dialogue with a broad range of print materials: the reports of charity societies, African American and Native American newspapers, juvenile fiction, travel writing, cartoons, sermons and tract literature. In the process, she dispels the myth that authors usually classified as literary were responding to a simple and unquestioned cult of benevolence. Rather, she contends, they were participating in the complex and often rancorous debates occurring within the broader culture over how good intentions should be expressed and enacted.…

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ordinary women, Snyder finds, employed a variety of strategies to prevail in domestic crises over sexual coercion and adultery, conflicts over women's status as servants or slaves, and threats to women's authority as independent household governors. Some women entered the political forum, openly participating as rebels or loyalists; others sought legal redress for their complaints. Wives protested the confines of marriage; unfree women spoke against masters and servitude. By the force of their words, all strove to thwart political leaders and local officials, as well as the power of husbands, masters and neighbours. The tactics colonial women used, and the successes they met, reflect the struggles for empowerment taking place in defiance of the inequalities of the colonial period.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Nothing about the state court doctrine approving payments for dangerous, local service would allow pensions for indigent mothers and for the elderly, which states began to consider after 1910. County commissioners and railroads that objected to the new taxes could fight programmes based on the old doctrine, established for firefighters, soldiers, and finally civil servants. State litigation provided one of the many grounds for contesting expanded welfare states in the early 20th century United States. Sterett demonstrates that state courts maintained a gendered division between the service that marked citizenship and the dependence that marked indigence, even during the promising ferment of the early 20th century.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Robert Wisnovsky is Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The book features 58 production stills and frame enlargements and also includes a greatly expanded Thematic Index of Films. Two new sections will help the reader discover labour films in chronological order or by nationality or affiliation with certain cinematic movements.…