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2018-08-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-08-06 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for August 6, 2018.


2018-08-06 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-08-06 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 6, 2018.


Mississippi’S First Statewide Teachers’ Strike, Emily Doyne Smith 2018 University of Southern Mississippi

Mississippi’S First Statewide Teachers’ Strike, Emily Doyne Smith

Master's Theses

This thesis argues that the Education Reform Act of 1982 (ERA) inadvertently led to Mississippi’s first statewide teachers’ strike in 1985 because of the Southeastern pay average clause recommending that the teachers’ pay should reach the average of the southeastern states, if possible. The teachers’ associations in Mississippi used this clause to lobby and promote teachers’ pay to that average. However, after two years of stagnated pay raises, the teachers’ associations led a state statewide teachers’ strike. The strike successfully raised the teachers’ salaries and moved state legislators to consider the teachers’ pay issue carefully afterwards. However, the pay raise …


Civil Rights Or Sovereignty Rights? Understanding The Historical Conflict Between Native Americans And Organized Labor, Colleen O'Neill 2018 Utah State University

Civil Rights Or Sovereignty Rights? Understanding The Historical Conflict Between Native Americans And Organized Labor, Colleen O'Neill

Occasional Papers

Unions have played important roles in Indigenous struggles in Latin America and in campaigns that fueled civil rights movements in the United States, including efforts to organize agricultural, hospitality, and health care workers. But, Native Americans have had less of a connection with organized labor. Indeed, in the current climate, labor and tribes seemed to be locked in an adversarial relationship. Tribal leaders see unions as a threat to their sovereignty. Unions, such as Unite-HERE and the United Food and Commercial Workers, clearly see their rights to organize as part of a larger civil rights struggle. Examining struggles between tribal …


2018-07-09 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-07-09 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for July 9, 2018.


2018-07-09 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-07-09 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for July 9, 2018.


2018-06-04 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-06-04 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

The Staff Congress newsletter for June 4, 2018.


2018-06-04 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-06-04 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for June 4, 2018.


Ptsd Among Working Women In A Developing Country, Lung-Chang Chien, Taylor J. Fitch, Xiao Yu, Mohammad Monjural Karim, Hasanat Alamgir 2018 University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Ptsd Among Working Women In A Developing Country, Lung-Chang Chien, Taylor J. Fitch, Xiao Yu, Mohammad Monjural Karim, Hasanat Alamgir

Research Briefs

No abstract provided.


2018-05-17 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office of the President. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-05-17 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message from the President to the faculty and staff issued on May 17, 2018.


The Evolution Of The “We Can Do It” Poster And American Feminist Movements, Reina Aguierre 2018 San Jose State University

The Evolution Of The “We Can Do It” Poster And American Feminist Movements, Reina Aguierre

McNair Research Journal SJSU

World War II created mass destruction and economic distress but was also responsible for creating new opportunities for women. The war had torn families apart and had altered family dynamics. The high demands of the wartime economy called for a reevaluation of American women’s roles in society. In 1942, Pittsburgh artist J. Howard Miller was hired by the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Coordinating Committee to create a range of propaganda posters to encourage women to join the war effort.1 The most iconic was christened “Rosie the Riveter” and further popularized by Norman Rockwell. These images exemplified how the government …


2018-05-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-05-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for May 7, 2018.


2018-05-07 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress. 2018 Morehead State University

2018-05-07 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for May 7, 2018.


Universal Alienation And The Real Subsumption Of Daily Life Under Capital: A Response To Hardt And Negri, David Harvey 2018 CUNY Graduate Center

Universal Alienation And The Real Subsumption Of Daily Life Under Capital: A Response To Hardt And Negri, David Harvey

Publications and Research

This contribution is part of a debate between Michael Hardt/Toni Negri and David Harvey on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary (May 5, 2018). The discussion focuses on the question of what capitalism looks like today and how it can best be challenged. In this article, David Harvey responds to Hardt and Negri’s previous debate-contributions.


Analyzing Union Voting By Workforce Sector In The 2016 Presidential Election, Galen Hlavsa 2018 Bemidji State University

Analyzing Union Voting By Workforce Sector In The 2016 Presidential Election, Galen Hlavsa

Political Science Theses and Capstones

In the 2016 presidential election, there was evident change in the voting behavior of both blue and white collar workers in states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania that assisted in Donald Trump’s win. While there was some realignment in party backing in a handful of unions, there were a number of union members that went against their union recommendation and voted for Trump. I research how union members in private and public sectors voted in the 2012 and 2016 election to compare the rate of union members defecting to Trump across the various sectors of the workforce. In order to …


Of Life And History, Vol. 1 (May 2018), 2018 College of the Holy Cross

Of Life And History, Vol. 1 (May 2018)

Of Life and History

No abstract provided.


Manufacturing Progress, Prosperity, And Pride: The Social Construction Of Worcester’S Industrial Identity, 1850-1910, Michael T. DeSantis 2018 College of the Holy Cross

Manufacturing Progress, Prosperity, And Pride: The Social Construction Of Worcester’S Industrial Identity, 1850-1910, Michael T. Desantis

Of Life and History

No abstract provided.


Exploitation And Social Reproduction In The Japanese Animation Industry, James Garrett 2018 California State University, Monterey Bay

Exploitation And Social Reproduction In The Japanese Animation Industry, James Garrett

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

Japanese animation, or ‘Anime’ is considered a unique creative cultural product that has become a global phenomenon, but little attention is paid to its industrial production process, the poor working conditions of domestic animators, and their position within the structure of labor organization in Japan. By analyzing research concerning the current stakeholders in the industry, historical conditions that led to the creation of television broadcast animation, overseas subcontracting networks, and the development of commercial fan cultures through Maurizio Lazzarato’s concept of Immaterial Labor, Michael Hardt’s concept of Affective Labor, Laikwan Pang’s concepts of the intensification of contradictory creative logics and …


Frontier Capitalism And Unfree Labor In Middle Appalachia: The Development Of Western Pennsylvania And Maryland, 1760-1840, Nathaniel Conley 2018 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

Frontier Capitalism And Unfree Labor In Middle Appalachia: The Development Of Western Pennsylvania And Maryland, 1760-1840, Nathaniel Conley

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Slavery and unfree labor have been a subject of growing interest for historians, particularly when dealing with frontier areas and the rise of capitalism. Recent studies have shown that slavery and unfree labor existed well into the antebellum period in the North despite the lack of legal support for the institution. Few historians have identified the importance of slavery in the development of western areas, however, particularly in the Appalachian regions of western Pennsylvania and Maryland. As a result, concerted study of slavery in rural, western areas is lacking, particularly in the borderland region between slavery and freedom along the …


Final Call: Rank-And-File Rebellion In New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer 2018 CUNY Graduate Center

Final Call: Rank-And-File Rebellion In New York City, 1965-1975, Glenn D. Dyer

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Between 1965 and 1975, New York City’s workers fomented a powerful yet inchoate movement that challenged the entrenched power of employers, union officials, and politicians. In the words of Central Labor Council head Harry Van Arsdale Jr., “strike fever” gripped the city; workers refused to follow their leaders, rejecting contracts, wildcatting, and organizing insurgent electoral campaigns. While historians have explored the rebellion as a national phenomenon, New York City’s wave of upheaval was a locally bound movement with its own unique dynamics, culture, and timeline, both powerfully shaping and shaped by the local political and social environment. Significantly, workers’ rebellious …


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