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Made In China: Decline Of Unions And Stagnant Wages In The U.S., Witt Harberts
Made In China: Decline Of Unions And Stagnant Wages In The U.S., Witt Harberts
Honors Program Theses
All of this research is connected by a dedication to better understand or solve the wealth and income inequality that has been prevalent in every country. I intend to add to this research by examining the relationship between unions and wages, which plays into the bigger conversation about wealth and income inequality. To summarize, the questions are, is there a correlation between the decline in union membership and the stagnation of wages? If so, has it played a role in the rise in income and wealth inequality in the U.S.?
Protests, Pageants, And Publications: Narratives Of Labor Agitators, 1913-1914, Jayme Edmund
Protests, Pageants, And Publications: Narratives Of Labor Agitators, 1913-1914, Jayme Edmund
Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
In the vast historiography on the American labor movement workers have been treated as noble artisans, brave unionists, martyrs to the cause of unionization, and losers in the triumph of the “free market”. They have not been treated as historians producing their own stories. In crafting their own narratives labor activists acted as historians, reaching beyond recent events to contextualize their struggles and create a narrative that would mobilize both labor and non-labor audiences behind their goals. They offered a vision of the past as leading to present or recent problems and framed unions or labor solidarity as the solution …
The Farmers' Holiday Association In Eastern Iowa, 1932-1933, Joel Dinger
The Farmers' Holiday Association In Eastern Iowa, 1932-1933, Joel Dinger
Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)
The Farmer's Holiday Association (FHA) was a short-lived phenomenon in Depression-era history. It arose out of the National Farmers Union, the most powerful farm organization of the immediate post-World War I era. While the main goal of the FHA was noble, cost of production guarantees were probably unattainable. Additionally, the method used try and attain this goal was questionable. Furthermore, the movement took on a life 1 of its own. For the most part, most of the activities took place in western Iowa and eastern Nebraska, with significantly less activity taking place in eastern Iowa.
In this paper, the background …