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2020-12-31 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A letter from the Office of the President sent to students on December 31, 2020 regarding the spring semester and return to campus.

2020-12-08 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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An announcement from the Office of the President sent to the faculty and staff on December 8, 2020 regarding winter break.

2020-12-07 Newletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from December 7, 2020.

2020-12-07 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from December 7, 2020.

Aspects Of The Becker Brewing And Malting Company Of Ogden, Utah: A Study Of Labor, Prohibition, And Finance, Jason Neil

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Embedded within the economic narrative of the nineteenth and twentieth century American West lays the rich, but frequently forgotten, history of brewing in Utah. While most businesses in Utah centered on agriculture, railroads, and mining, the breweries of Utah also played a significant role in the industrial and economic development of the region. One of the largest and most significant of these breweries was the Becker Brewing and Malting Company of Ogden, Utah. Founded in 1892, this company deeply affected the brewing industry until its dissolution in 1965. Many of the original records kept by the company still exist and …

"Some Kind Of Socialist:" Lee Hays, The Social Gospel, And The Path To The Cultural Front, Elizabeth Withey

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In 1939, with sixty-five dollars and twenty pages of Commonwealth Labor songs, Lee Hays, youngest son of a Methodist minister, hitchhiked thirteen hundred miles from Mena, Arkansas, to New York City where he found stardom in the Folk Revival movement, first, as a founder of the Almanac Singers then the Weavers. Hays’ biographer Doris Willens and others, viewing Hays’ unabashed socialism, ribald humor, penchant for beer, brandy, and cigarettes as induced by the childhood trauma of his father’s death, argue Hays rejected his father’s beliefs: replacing religion with radical politics. This thesis, in contrast, argues Hays’ upbringing immersed in contradictions …

Acknowledging Our Past: Race, Landscape And History, Alea Harris, Kaycia Best, Dieran Mcgowan, Destiny Shippy, Vera Oberg, Bryson Coleman, Luke Meagher, Rhiannon Leebrick Ph.D., Phillip Stone

Student Scholarship

This book is the product of nearly a year's worth of student research on Wofford College's history, undertaken as part of a grant by the Council of Independent Colleges in the Humanities Research for the Public Good initiative. The research was supervised and directed by Dr. Rhiannon Leebrick.

"Guiding Research Questions:

How did Wofford College and its early stakeholders support and participate in slavery?

How is the legacy of slavery present in the landscape of our campus (buildings, statues, names, etc.)?

How can we better understand Wofford as an institution during the time of Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era? …

2020-11-16 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent by the President on November 16, 2020 to the students discussing the final days of classes, upcoming holidays and the 2021 winter and spring semesters.

2020-11-16 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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A message update from the Office of the President sent to students on November 16, 2020 regarding the completion of in-person classes on November 20 and remaining classes to be conducted virtually.

The Role Of Women Within The Mine Wars, Kirsten Hylton

West Virginia University Historical Review

This paper examines the impact that the Mine Wars had on women who lived within the mine camps directly affected by labor unrest. While women were usually not the ones on the front lines of the Mine Wars, they still were impacted by and involved with the action. Just like the men of the camps, women were evicted from their homes, brutalized by mine guards, and were forced to change their lives. Assuming that the events of the Mine Wars were perceived in the same way by both men and women would be leaving out a large portion of the …

Japanese Economic Aggression, Organized Labor’S Resistance, And The Path To World War Ii, Thomas Miles

West Virginia University Historical Review

This paper examines economic aggression from the Japanese fishing fleet beginning in 1936 and the response from organized labor in America prior to the famous attack on Pearl Harbor. The focus of this is research is primarily from the perspective of American labor, drawing heavily on the Voice of the Federation newspaper, which was a publication owned by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. The US government was aware of encroachment of Japanese floating canneries in 1936, but took little action against Japan in order to avoid worsening tensions between the two nations. However, in 1937 Harry Stuhr, the head …

2020-11-02 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from November 2, 2020.

2020-11-02 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from November 2, 2020.

2020-11-02 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent by the President on November 2, 2020 to the faculty and staff discussing the remaining three weeks of classes, election day, winter and spring registration, Veterans Day and general health precautions.

A Brief History Of The Irish And Social Mobility In Buffalo, New York From The 1830s To The 1860s, Evan B. Kennedy

History Theses

The focus of this thesis is to contribute and expand upon the historiography of Irish American history in Buffalo, New York. Throughout the 1830s and into the 1860s, the Irish in Buffalo were able to become socially mobile and establish themselves as a powerful group for change in the city. It is important to acknowledge that the process to become socially mobile was not easy for the Irish migrants and their later descendants. There were countless hardships and struggles the Irish faced prior to their journey to the United States and after their arrival and settlement in Buffalo. The time …

2020-10-12 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent by the President on October 12, 2020 to the faculty and staff discussing commencement, State budget and winter terms and spring semester classes.

2020-10-05 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from October 5, 2020.

2020-10-05 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from October 5, 2020.

2020-09-14 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from September 14, 2020.

2020-09-14 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from September 14, 2020.

2020-09-14 Minutes (Revised), Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes from September 14, 2020.

2020-09-08 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Message sent by the President on August 19, 2020 to the faculty and staff discussing the recent State budget reductions.

Labor Day: Stories Of Work, James C. Schaap

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"Covid has forced us to honor people who’ve never made more than minimum wage yet suddenly have become irreplaceable."

Posting about ­­­­­­­­the value of work from In All Things - an online journal for critical reflection on faith, culture, art, and every ordinary-yet-graced square inch of God’s creation.

https://inallthings.org/labor-day-stories-of-work/

There Is No Bournville In Africa: Chocolate Capitalist, African Cocoa Workers, And International Labor Relationships From The 19th Century To The Present, Ryan Minor

History in the Making

The issue of labor exploitation and the impact of neocolonialism, have in recent years, become extremely important as our global community continues to shrink. This paper focuses on the relationships between European chocolate manufactures and West African cocoa laborers from the 1870’s to the present day as a means of discussing the complex connections that have developed between industrial capitalism and labor in Africa. This study will address two key questions: One, if labor exploitation is necessary for industrial capitalists to maintain the high levels of profit they desire; and two, if the exploitation of labor becomes increasingly easier the …

"A Glass Of Milk Strengthens A Nation." Law Development, And China's Dairy Tale, Xiaoqian Hu

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Historically, China was a soybean nation and not a dairy nation. Today, China has become the world’s largest dairy importer and third largest dairy producer, and dairy has surpassed soybeans in both consumption volume and sales revenue. This article investigates the legal, political, and socioeconomic factors that drove this transformation, and building upon fieldwork in two Chinese counties, examines the transformation’s socioeconomic impact on China’s several hundred million farmers and ex-farmers and political impact on the Chinese regime. The article makes two arguments. First, despite changes of times and political regimes, China’s dairy tale is a tale about chasing the …

Dairy Tales: Global Portraits Of Milk And Law, Jessica Eisen, Xiaoqian Hu, Erum Sattar

Journal of Food Law & Policy

Cow’s milk has enjoyed a widespread cultural signification in many parts of the world as “nature’s perfect food.”1 A growing body of scholarship, however, has challenged the image of cow’s milk in human diets and polities as a product of “nature,” and has instead sought to illuminate the political, scientific, colonial and postcolonial, economic, and social forces that have in fact defined the production, consumption, and cultural signification of cow’s milk in human societies. This emerging attention to the social, legal, and political significance of milk sits at the intersection of several fields of academic inquiry: anthropology, history, animal studies, …

More Austerity Coming? Lessons From New York City's 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Marc Kagan

Publications and Research

Crises can be moments of opportunity, but it is not foreordained who will seize the ring. The Great Depression ultimately led to the New Deal/Great Society state and increasing equality. 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, on the other hand, laid the groundwork for decades of neoliberal austerity. Despite political vulnerabilities, bankers and their Washington allies acted boldly to protect imperiled assets and remake a city in which the working class wielded some power as a bastion of finance capital. Seemingly powerful unions abandoned the public they served, and followed a risk-averse strategy of concessions in exchange for junior-partner corporatism, …

2020-08-19 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

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Message sent by the President on August 19, 2020 to the faculty and staff discussing the week of the semester and upcoming events.

"Rebel Girls" Reevaluated: Gender In The Lives Of Three Wobbly Women, Jake Andersen

The Thetean: A Student Journal for Scholarly Historical Writing

No abstract provided.

2020-08-03 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter from August 3, 2020.