Constructing The World's Largest Prison: Understanding Identity By Examining Labor, 2015 Georgia Southern University
Constructing The World's Largest Prison: Understanding Identity By Examining Labor, Hubert J. Gibson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
A Civil War prison camp operated by the Confederacy known as Camp Lawton was once considered the largest prison in the world. This label was attributed to the fact that Lawton’s stockade enclosed 42 acres. The historical record does not have a clear picture of who built it. Newspaper interviews claim the construction was carried out by 500 impressed slave laborers and 300 Union POWs, but these lack the credibility of official orders. Unfortunately, many Confederate documents were lost when Sherman’s army came through Millen, GA. This study archaeologically examines construction techniques utilized for building stockades in an effort …
War, Labor, And Dissent: Motivations Of American Labor Unions During The First World War, 2014 Western Michigan University
War, Labor, And Dissent: Motivations Of American Labor Unions During The First World War, J. Alexander Killion
J. Alexander Killion
On April 6, 1917, the United States formally entered the First World War, despite calls for a general strike among socialists and labor leaders to prevent this. There have been many attempts to understand why a coordinated effort by the working class failed to materialize, and this paper explores that topic by examining the relationship between American unions and the government, as well as their reaction to the outbreak of the war. By studying contemporary writings from labor leaders and government officials, as well as legislation such as the Espionage Act of 1917, I can show that several factors went …
Labor In A Hopeless Land: The Daughters Of Charity And Hansen's Disease Patients At The Louisiana Leper Home, 1896-1926, 2014 University of New Orleans
Labor In A Hopeless Land: The Daughters Of Charity And Hansen's Disease Patients At The Louisiana Leper Home, 1896-1926, Reagan Laiche
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The Miracle of Carville, as the late 1930’s and 1940’s have been called, is considered the pivotal point for those isolated with leprosy at the National Leprosarium in Carville, Louisiana. Scholars, researchers and folklorists alike have grappled with these decades as providing the environment in which patient reform was cultivated and eventually sown without a serious consideration of the labor and advocacy of the Sisters missioned there.
Understanding the multiple roles of the Sisters at the Louisiana Leper Home, those of home makers, care takers and patient advocates, provides the foundation for the patient reforms won during the Miracle of …
Eradicating Slavery In Maranhão: Impunity And Capitalism, 2014 SIT Study Abroad
Eradicating Slavery In Maranhão: Impunity And Capitalism, Zachary Patton
Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection
The purposes of this research are to raise awareness of the occurrence of slavery in the 21st century, explain how and why slavery still exists in the northeast of Brazil, more specifically in Maranhão, and to explain what state and federal agencies and NGOs are attempting to do to eradicate slavery. Despite the emancipation of slavery in 1888, this insidious practice continues in regions with a history of slavery and a lack of anti-slavery legislation implementation. Through examining the challenges of enforcing legislation in the criminal justice system, the author constructs a current characterization of slavery in Maranhão. In the …
2014-12-01 Newsletter, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-12-01 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress newsletter for December 1, 2014.
2014-12-01 Meeting Minutes, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-12-01 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress meeting minutes for December 1, 2014.
2014-11-03 Meeting Minutes, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-11-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress meeting minutes for November 3, 2014.
2014-11-03 Newsletter, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-11-03 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress meeting newsletter for November 3, 2014.
2014-11-00 Concerns, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-11-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress concerns for November of 2014.
Book Review: David Grant, 'Jagged Seas: The New Zealand Seamen's Union, 1879-2003' (2012), 2014 University of Wollongong
Book Review: David Grant, 'Jagged Seas: The New Zealand Seamen's Union, 1879-2003' (2012), Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Review of David Grant, 'Jagged Seas: The New Zealand Seamen's Union, 1879-2003' (Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2012). The reviewer co-authored a history of the Australian Seamen's Union (1872-1972) in 1981, and this review is sympathetic towards Grant's history, and makes a case for the ongoing production of worker/union histories.
Case Study Two: Jewish Time Jump: New York, 2014 Rochester Institute of Technology
Case Study Two: Jewish Time Jump: New York, Owen Gottlieb
Articles
Gottlieb presents an early case study of his mobile augmented reality game Jewish Time Jump: New York design on the ARIS platform for the iPhone and iPad (iOS). The game is set on-location in Washington Square Park in New York city. Players in 5th-7th grade take on the role of time-traveling reporters, landing on site on the eve of the Uprising of 20,000, the largest women-led strike in U.S. History. Based on their GPS location they receive media from over 100 years in the past, interactive with digital characters as they work to gather a story for the fictional Jewish …
2014-10-06 Newsletter, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-10-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress newsletter for October 6, 2014.
2014-10-06 Meeting Minutes, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-10-06 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress meeting minutes for October 6, 2014.
The Ideological And Organizational Origins Of The United Federation Of Teachers' Opposition To The Community Control Movement In The New York City Public Schools, 1960-1968, 2014 CUNY Graduate Center
The Ideological And Organizational Origins Of The United Federation Of Teachers' Opposition To The Community Control Movement In The New York City Public Schools, 1960-1968, Stephen Brier
Publications and Research
This article explores the origins and ideological practice of public school teacher unionism as it was articulated and revealed in New York City before and during the epochal strike against an experiment in community control of neighborhood schools undertaken by the United Federation of Teachers in the fall of 1968 that closed down the city’s massive public school system for weeks and put almost 1 million school children in the street. How and why did unionized New York City public school teachers support the particular kind of trade unionism that the UFT and its president, Albert Shanker, embodied and practiced …
Revolutionary Decade: Reflections On The 1960s, 2014 Eastern Illinois University
Revolutionary Decade: Reflections On The 1960s, Booth Library
Booth Library Programs
Photo galleries and supporting exhibits can be found on the REVOLUTIONARY DECADE exhibit page.
Exhibit Dates
This exhibit was displayed at Booth Library September 9 - November 20, 2014
The Influences Of The Musselman Family, 2014 Gettysburg College
The Influences Of The Musselman Family, Yifei Zhang
Student Publications
For almost a century, the Musselman family has had huge influences on Adams County, PA. Many of those contributions are unknown by people today. So, based on the research of the Musselman Canning Company and the two Musselman Foundations, this paper is a study of the impacts the Musselman family has had on others and how it has achieved that influence. The main primary sources include the company’s publication, The Processor, the articles on local newspaper, and the collections in the Special Collection in Gettysburg College’s Musselman Library.
2014-10-00 Concerns, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-10-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress concerns for October of 2014.
Movimientos Obreros Y Por Los Derechos Humanos En América Latina: Convergencia, Divergencia Y Consecuencias Para La Promoción De Los Derechos Económicos, Sociales Y Culturales [Labor Movements And Human Rights In Latin America: Convergence, Divergence, And The Implications For The Promotion Of Economic, Social And Cultural Rights], Maria Lorena Cook
Maria Lorena Cook
[Excerpt] Los derechos propios del trabajo forman parte de los derechos humanos hace mucho tiempo y gozan del reconocimiento de pactos internacionales. La Declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, adoptada por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, en 1948, enumera los derechos a condiciones de trabajo justas y favorables; a igual remuneración por trabajo de igual valor; a una remuneración equitativa y favorable, y a formar sindicatos y afiliarse a ellos. El Pacto Internacional de Derechos Civiles y Políticos (PIDCP) incluye los derechos a la libertad de asociación y a formar sindicatos y afiliarse a ellos. El Pacto Internacional de Derechos …
2014-09-08 Newsletter, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-09-08 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress newsletter for September 8, 2014.
2014-09-08 Meeting Minutes, 2014 Morehead State University
2014-09-08 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.
Staff Congress Records
Staff Congress meeting minutes for September 8, 2014.