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Special Issue Introduction: Labor In Academic Libraries, Emily Drabinski, Aliqae Geraci, Roxanne Shirazi

Publications and Research

Labor in academic libraries has reemerged as an area of critical interest in both academic library and archives communities. Librarians and archivists have long worked to counter the diminishment of their labor within an academy that centers the concerns of disciplinary faculty who may, in turn, see knowledge workers as a footnote to the scholarly enterprise. Recent years have seen a renewed attention to the social and economic conditions of our work, as researchers turned to topics such as affective labor in libraries and archives, attitudes toward labor unions, and information work under capitalism (Sloniowski 2016; Mills and McCullough 2018; …

2019-09-27 Memo On Retirement And Reemployment, State Of Kentucky. Teachers' Retirement System.

Staff Congress Records

Memorandum from the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Kentucky to University Human Resources Officers regarding compliance to federal tax law and postretirement employment issued on September 27, 2019.

2019-09-23 Message From The President, Morehead State University. Office Of The President.

Staff Congress Records

A message sent to the faculty and staff by the Office of the President on September 23, 2019.

2019-09-09 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes from September 9, 2019.

Runaway: A History Of Postwar New York In Four Factories, Andy Battle

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

At midcentury, New York City was among the preeminent manufacturing centers in the United States. Within a generation, this manufacturing economy suffered an extraordinary collapse. Beginning in the 1950s, workers and their unions began to use the term “runaway” to describe factories that pulled up stakes in New York and set them back down in other climes. This dissertation explores the deindustrialization of New York City through case studies of “runaway” plants, or factories that left New York for the American South or abroad between the years 1945 and 1975.

In general, the manufacturers that remained in New York at …

2019-08-05 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for August 5, 2019.

2019-08-05 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 5, 2019.

The Oppressive Pressures Of Globalization And Neoliberalism On Mexican Maquiladora Garment Workers, Jenna Demeter

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

The international economic trends of globalization and neoliberalism have exposed and enabled the exploitation of Mexican workers, especially women in the maquiladora garment industry. During the 1950s, globalization gave rise to the new international division of labor and transnational corporations (TNCs) that have offshored labor-intensive phases of production to developing countries, many of which have pursued export-led industrialization. Export processing in Mexico was encouraged in the 1960s by Item 807 of the U.S. Tariff Code and Mexico’s Border Industrialization Program. Especially following the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s, advanced capitalist countries and International Financial Institutions foisted neoliberal structural …

"Poverty Wages Are Not Fresh, Local, Or Sustainable": Building Worker Power By Organizing Around (Re)Production In Portland's "Sustainable" Food Industry, Amy Katherine Rose Coplen

Dissertations and Theses

Although conscious consumers flock to sustainability-branded restaurants and grocery stores to "vote with their forks" for environmental sustainability and vibrant local economies, workers in these industries face the same poverty wages, discrimination, and exploitative labor practices that plague the food service and retail industries at large. Despite rapid growth and labor degradation, low-wage workers in these industries have largely been left behind by the mainstream labor movement and the alternative food movement. Whereas in the past, progressive social movements worked to alter power relations between labor and capital through collective action, today's mainstream labor movement focuses on servicing its dwindling …

The Catch-22 Irony Of Child Labor And The Urgency For State Intervention, Ka Yee Lau

Augsburg Honors Review

Child labor (CL) has been found to enhance substantially the poorest households' chances for short-term survival. CL could also - it has been argued - facilitate CWs' socialization and development of moral values and survival skills. This article aims to demonstrate that these short-term benefits are considerably outweighed by the corresponding long-term detrimental repercussions on CWs' health, education, and earning potential in adulthood. While the poorest households might strategically employ CL as a last resort to ensure their short-term survival, it is CL per se that maintains these families in extreme poverty through the impediment to CWs' human capital accumulation, …

Keep 'Em Fighting: Chris-Craft's Contribution To Wwii, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

On June 6, 1944, Allied forces clamored over the sides of large troop ships into 4126 landing craft, many of those LCVPs (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), and prepared to storm several beaches of northern France in Operation Overlord, better known as D-Day. Preparation for this day started in the early 1942 as companies throughout the United States converted their factories from peacetime to wartime production. In Michigan, all three Chris-Craft Corporation plants quickly converted from pleasure boat building to building boats for the war effort full time. Together, the three plants would become part of the America’s arsenal of democracy …

2019-07-01 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress newsletter for July 1, 2019.

2019-07-01 Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for July 1, 2019.

Research Panel: Variation In Women Attaining Full Professorships At Research Universities And Non-Tenured Faculty Systems In The Us And Abroad, Lisa Allen

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Adjunct Faculty: Why and How We Should Help Them

Research Panel: Variation In Women Attaining Full Professorships At Research Universities And Non-Tenured Faculty Systems In The Us And Abroad, Sandra Darkey

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Structural/Organizational Determinants of Variations in Women Attaining the Full Professorship at Research Universities

Research Panel: Variation In Women Attaining Full Professorships At Research Universities And Non-Tenured Faculty Systems In The Us And Abroad, Martin Finkelstein, Yiannis Floropoulos

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Employing Part-Time and Temporary Academic Staff: A Comparative Perspective

Panel: Organizing Outside The Law, Karly Safar

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Panel: Organizing Outside The Law, Hailey Huget

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Circumventing the NLRB in Grad Organizing: Georgetown and Gage

Panel: Peer-Based Faculty Evaluation V. Student Evaluation Of Teaching

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Student Survey of Teaching

Panel: Peer-Based Faculty Evaluation V. Student Evaluation Of Teaching, Leah Akins, Laura Murphy

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Panel: Peer-Based Faculty Evaluation V. Student Evaluation Of Teaching, Leah Akins, Laura Murphy

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Maintaining peer-based faculty evaluation: a case study involving student surveys of teaching

Panel: Legal Issues In Higher Education: Annual Review Of Court And Administrative Developments (Cle), Beth Margolis

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Panel: Legal Issues In Higher Education: Annual Review Of Court And Administrative Developments (Cle), Natasha Baker

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Panel: Legal Issues In Higher Education: Annual Review Of Court And Administrative Developments (Cle), Aaron Nisenson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Research Panel: Faculty Compensation In Public Higher Education, Stephen Katsinas

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Examining the Employment Profile of Institutions Under the Mission-Driven Classification System and the Impact of Collective Bargaining

Panel: The Adjunct Faculty Experience: Is What We "Know" Correct?, Paul Yakoboski

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Adjunct faculty: Who they are and what is their experience?

Panel: Transformational Bargaining: How The Lecturers' Union At The University Of Michigan Built Sufficient Power To Dramatically Improve Member Compensation, Kirsten Herold, Ian Robinson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.

Panel: Community Colleges, Collective Bargaining, And "Right To Work", Martin Balinsky

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Tallahassee Community College - Creating a New Chapter in a "Right to Work" State

Panel: Finding All Sides Of The Truth: Investigating And Handling Employee Discipline (Cle)

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Just Cause Discipline for Social Networking in the New Gilded Age: Will the Law Look the Other Way? (William Herbert and Alicia McNally)

Panel: Finding All Sides Of The Truth: Investigating And Handling Employee Discipline (Cle)

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Toward a Theory of "Just Cause" in Employee Discipline Cases (Roger Abrams & Dennis Nolan)