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The State Of The Unions 2023: A Profile Of Organized Labor In New York City, New York State, And The United States, Ruth Milkman, Joseph Van Der Naald
The State Of The Unions 2023: A Profile Of Organized Labor In New York City, New York State, And The United States, Ruth Milkman, Joseph Van Der Naald
Publications and Research
This report released by the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, State of the Unions 2023: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States, is a part of an annual publication series, documents recent trends in unionization patterns. The overall level of unionization in both the City and State has been roughly double the national rate over the past two decades. But recently, union density has fallen more in New York City and New York State than in the United States as a whole. In the mid-2010s, both the City and …
“Did Emmett Till Die In Vain? Organized Labor Says No!”: The United Packinghouse Workers And Civil Rights Unionism In The Mid-1950s, Matthew Nichter
“Did Emmett Till Die In Vain? Organized Labor Says No!”: The United Packinghouse Workers And Civil Rights Unionism In The Mid-1950s, Matthew Nichter
Faculty Publications
Emmett Till’s mangled face is seared into our collective memory, a tragic epitome of the brutal violence that upheld white supremacy in the Jim Crow South. But Till's murder was more than just a tragedy: it also inspired an outpouring of determined protest, in which labor unions played a prominent role. The United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) campaigned energetically on behalf of Emmett Till, from the stockyards of Chicago to the sugar refineries of Louisiana. Packinghouse workers petitioned, marched, and rallied to demand justice; the UPWA organized the first mass meeting addressed by Till’s mother, Mamie Bradley; and an …
Chapman, John (Fa 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chapman, John (Fa 816), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 816. This collection “Mining and The Company Store,” describes essential phases of mining coal and the companies miners worked for in the Pennyroyal Region of Kentucky. The narrative is in an interview format and illustrated with photos; a small portion of the narrative features information about company stores. This information was collected by Western KentuckyUniversity student John Chapman, for credit in a folklore class.
Strategic Diversity In Union Political Action: Implications For The 1992 House Elections, Richard W. Hurd, Jeffrey E. Sohl
Strategic Diversity In Union Political Action: Implications For The 1992 House Elections, Richard W. Hurd, Jeffrey E. Sohl
Richard W Hurd
[Excerpt] The purpose of this paper is to explore labor's strategic options in the 1992 elections. We will focus on House races because the diversity in political strategies among unions is most apparent there. However, our conclusions will have broader implications for union activity in elections at all levels of government. In evaluating the situation we will consider the impact of redistricting on labor's alternatives. We should note that recent developments have made many union political operatives more optimistic. The upset victory by populist Democrat Harris Wofford in the special Senate election in Pennsylvania, the eventual compromises on civil rights …
Steelworkers' Victory At Ravenswood: Picket Line Around The World, Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Steelworkers' Victory At Ravenswood: Picket Line Around The World, Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
The second in a two-part series details the sophisticated international campaign and grass-roots activism that gave labor one of its biggest wins in the '90s.
Locked Out But Holding Together In Ravenswood, Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Locked Out But Holding Together In Ravenswood, Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
The first in a two-part series that details the Steelworkers' victory at Ravenswood Aluminum - one of labor's biggest wins in the '90s.
Workers, Racism And History: A Response, Nick Salvatore
Workers, Racism And History: A Response, Nick Salvatore
Nick Salvatore
[Excerpt] This intimate dependence of white egalitarianism upon black exclusion forms the central theme of Herbert Hill's essay. Arguing that this condition is neither episodic nor solely of historical interest, Hill asserts that these racist attitudes (and the action that flowed from them) were systemic across two centuries of working class development and actually provide the central continuous rational for understanding institutional trade union activity from the early nineteenth century into the present. America's labor unions. Hill writes, are "the institutional expression of white working class racism, and of policies and practices that resulted in unequal access, dependent on race, …
Foreword To The Killing Of Karen Silkwood, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Foreword To The Killing Of Karen Silkwood, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] The Killing of Karen Silkwood, therefore, is both a cautionary and inspirational tale. It reminds us of what we are up against and what it takes to win. But most of all it reminds us why each of us must stand with the whistle-blowers and the ordinary heroes that are among us, in the workplace, in government, and in our communities, and, if given the opportunity, become ordinary heroes ourselves. The risks are great, but the costs of not standing up and not speaking out are even greater.
Reversing The Tide Of Organizing Decline: Lessons From The Us Experience, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Reversing The Tide Of Organizing Decline: Lessons From The Us Experience, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
As increasing numbers of employers and governments in industrialized nations hasten to "Americanize" their economic policies, labor laws, and union-avoidance strategies, it has become critical for unions in other countries to learn what they can from the organizing experience of the US labor movement. Most research on factors contributing to US organizing decline has focused on the role played by factors external to the labor movement such as global competition, de-industrialization, changes in workforce demographics, new work systems, deregulation, aggressive employer opposition, and weak and poorly enforced labor laws. US unions, however, have greatly contributed to their own decline by …
Dalton, Callie Lou (Fa 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dalton, Callie Lou (Fa 62), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Folklife Archives Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 62. “Survival is the Name of the Game or Is It?: The Role of the United Auto Workers in Bowling Green, KY,” an interpretive paper and interviews executed for an urban history class at Western Kentucky University in 1989. Includes a copy of the general agreement between General Motors and the U.A.W., and training materials.
Local 21'S Quest For A Moral Economy: Peabody, Massachusetts And Its Leather Workers, 1933-1973, Lynne Nelson Manion
Local 21'S Quest For A Moral Economy: Peabody, Massachusetts And Its Leather Workers, 1933-1973, Lynne Nelson Manion
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The industrial working class began the middle decades of the twentieth century with unlimited hope and possibility but ended them fraught with disillusionment and dismay. This marked a disjointed experience as optimism for the future gave way to disenchantment. With the ratification of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933 and the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, hundreds of thousands of workers across the United States became union members. The euphoria that this initial burst of unionization created, however, could not be sustained throughout the post-World War II years. The Cold War, McCarthyism and later the onset of de-industrialization …
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 80 (September 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 80 (September 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 79 (August 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 79 (August 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 78 (July 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 78 (July 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 77 (June 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 77 (June 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 76 (May 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 76 (May 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 75 (April 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 75 (April 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 74 (March 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 74 (March 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 73 (February1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 73 (February1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 72 (January 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 72 (January 1986), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 71 (December 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 71 (December 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 70 (November 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 70 (November 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 69 (October 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 69 (October 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 68 (September 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 68 (September 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 67 (August1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 67 (August1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 66 (July 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 66 (July 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 65 (June 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 65 (June 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 64 (May 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 64 (May 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 63 (April 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 63 (April 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 61 (March 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Statewide News Letter No. 61 (March 1985), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.