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Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 38. Alfred Russel Wallace's "Revolt Of Democracy": A Critical Analysis Of Early 20th Century Labor Theory And Its Contemporary Relevance, James Williams, Charles H. Smith Editor
Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 38. Alfred Russel Wallace's "Revolt Of Democracy": A Critical Analysis Of Early 20th Century Labor Theory And Its Contemporary Relevance, James Williams, Charles H. Smith Editor
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
This article examines Alfred Russel Wallace’s political treatise The Revolt of Democracy (1913), analyzing his theoretical framework for addressing labor unrest and economic inequality in early 20th-century Britain. Wallace's work presents a comprehensive critique of competitive capitalism and proposes systematic government intervention to address structural poverty. Through close textual analysis and comparison with contemporary UK labor conditions, this study evaluates the enduring relevance of Wallace's economic theories and policy prescriptions. The analysis reveals significant continuities between early 20th-century and contemporary debates about living wages, government employment standards, and wealth redistribution, while highlighting both the prescience and limitations of Wallace’s analytical …
Unions - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Unions - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3673. By-Laws and Trade Rules of Union Local No. 2156, Bowling Green, Kentucky, of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.
Teachers' Unions In American Education, Robert Snyder
Teachers' Unions In American Education, Robert Snyder
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The primary purpose of this study is to give the administrator, supervisor and classroom teacher a graphic resume of the rise and development of teachers' unions in the educational system of the United States. Many educators have become passive to unionization, and as a result of their passiveness they have given added impetus to a force that must ultimately be reckoned with. It is believed that this study can be used to advantage as a handbook to all desiring insight into this comparatively new problem.
A Study Of The Attitudes & Contributions Of Organized Labor To Education Prior To 1860, H. B. Mcalister
A Study Of The Attitudes & Contributions Of Organized Labor To Education Prior To 1860, H. B. Mcalister
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This study presents a somewhat connected narrative of the attitudes and contributions of organized labor to education prior to 1860. It has a twofold purpose: first, it is concerned with a consideration of the psychological, economic, social and political background which provided and shaped the determining factors of organized labor's earlier educational attitudes and contributions; and second, with an investigation for evidences as to the nature, extent and significance of these attitudes and contributions in evaluating labor's part in establishing our system of free public school education.