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  1. Labor history

    Labor history may refer to Labor history discipline , a subfield of the discipline of history Labor history of the United States , describes the history of organized labor, as well as the more general history of working people, in the United States Australian labour movement , including history Labor History journal Labor History journal , a scholarly journal published by Taylor & Francis ref http www.tandf.co.uk journals titles 0023656X.asp ref . Labour History , a scholarly journal published in Australia by the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History ref http www.historycooperative.org labindex.html ref Labour History Review , a scholarly journal published in the United Kingdom by the Society for the Study of Labour History ref http www.sslh.org.uk index.php?option com content&view article&id 15&Itemid 28 ref . References references disambiguation ...   more details



  1. New labor history

    New labor history is a branch of Labor history discipline labor history which focuses on the experiences ... . Before the 1960s, most labor historians around the world focused on the history of trade union ... Madison University of Wisconsin dominated the academic discipline of labor history. Paramount in their research ... history suggested a new way to revitalize the U.S. labor movement by focusing attention away from .... For some, the new labor history moved the discipline of labor history away from the Marxism ... see Rogin, 2002 . European and American critics of the new labor history charge that historians ... and values as much as reflect them. They also point out that the new labor history has a tendency ... a new synthesis of the old and new labor histories. Examples of new labor history scholars David ... Joshi Prabhu Mohapatra Examples of old labor history scholars John R. Commons John Thomas Dunlop Joseph Rayback Philip Taft References Brody, David. Reconciling the Old Labor History and the New, Pacific Historical Review 72 February 1993 , 111 126. Brody, David. The Old Labor History and the New In Search of an American Working Class, Labor History 20 Winter 1979 , 11 26. Buhle, Mary Jo and Buhle, Paul. The New Labor History at the Cultural Crossroads. Journal of American History. 75 1 June 1988 . Dubofsky, Melvyn. The New Labor History Achievements and Failures. Reviews in American History. 5 2 June 1977 . Fink, Leon. The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor. Journal of American History. 75 1 June 1988 . Gerstle ... 0691089116 Kimeldorf, Howard. Bringing the Unions Back in Or Why We Need a New Old labor History ... Nelson, Labor History 32 1991 , 91 129. Painter, Nell Irvin. The New Labor History and the Historical ... the Working Class Saved Capitalism The New Labor History and The Devil and Miss Jones. Journal of American History. 89 1 June 2002 . Category Social history Category Labor history hist stub socio ...   more details



  1. Labor History (journal)

    Infobox journal title Labor History cover File Labor History journal low res cover.jpg editor Craig Phelan discipline Labor Studies peer reviewed language former names The Labor Historian s Bulletin 1953 1960, ISSN 0456 9644 Newsletter 1967 1968 abbreviation publisher Routledge country frequency Quarterly history 1953 present openaccess license impact impact year website http www.tandfonline.com clah link1 link1 name link2 link2 name JSTOR OCLC LCCN CODEN ISSN 0023 656x eISSN 1469 9702 boxwidth Labor History is an inter disciplinary, peer review ed journal which publishes articles regarding the history of the labour movement labor movement in the United States , Europe and other regions and countries. The journal publishes articles by historians, industrial relations scholars, economists, political .... The target audience for the journal is academics, students, workers, and labor movement officials and activists. Publication History The journal was founded in 1953 as the Labor Historian s Bulletin ISSN 0456 9644 , and later incorporated Newsletter OCLC 16812578 . ref cite web title Labor History ..., LLC accessdate 28 October 2011 ref In 1960, the journal had changed its name to Labor History ... conflicts with the new publisher, the entire editorial board of Labor History left the journal to found a new journal, Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas . ref name Smallwood cite journal last Smallwood first Scott coauthors David Glenn title Editor of Labor History Quits ... date July 4, 2003 volume 49 issue 43 pages A18 url http chronicle.com article Editor of Labor History ... . Awards Each year, Labor History awards a number of writing prizes. Honors are given to the best ... in a number of scholarly bibliographic databases, including Alternative Press Index , America History ... labor themed dissertation, and best book on labor. External links http www.tandfonline.com clah Labor History Web site References reflist Category Labour journals Category History journals Category ...   more details



  1. Illinois Labor History Society

    The Illinois Labor History Society is a nonprofit educational organization founded in 1969. It is a voluntary organization composed of academics, unionists, and persons interested in labor history. It was formed To encourage the preservation and study of labor history in the Illinois Region, and to arouse public interest in the profound significance of the past to the present. See also List of historical sites related to the Illinois labor movement External links http www.illinoislaborhistory.org The organization s website Category 1969 establishments Category Non profit organization stubs Category Non profit organizations based in Chicago, Illinois Illinois stub ...   more details



  1. Labor history (discipline)

    Labor history or labour history is a broad field of study concerned with the development of the labor movement and the working class . The central concerns of labor historians include the development of trade union labor union s, Strike action strike s, lockouts and protest movements, industrial relations ... development of working people. Labor historians may also concern themselves with issues of gender, race, ethnicity and other factors besides class. Labor history developed in tandem with the growth ... half of the nineteenth century. Whilst early labor historians were drawn to protest movements such as Luddism and Chartism , the focus of labor history was often on institutions chiefly the labor unions ..., 1994, p. 1. ISBN 0 415 07320 0 ref In the 1950s and 1960s, labor history was redefined and expanded ... labor movement. They were concerned to approach history from below and to explore the agency ... influential in setting a new agenda for labor historians and locating the importance of the study of labor for social history in general. Also in the 1950s and 1960s, historians began to give ... class. Labor history remains centered on two fundamental sets of interest institutional histories of workers organizations, and the history from below approach of the Marxist historians. Despite ... History in 1960. He reports that labor history has been mostly pragmatic, eclectic and empirical ... from below, institutionalism versus the social history of labor, class, populism, gender, language ... labour New Left Communist Party Historians Group New labor history Business history labor Notes ..., eds. Rethinking U.S. Labor History Essays on the Working Class Experience, 1756 2009 2010 Category Labor history Category Labor historians Category Labour relations Category Social history es Historiograf a ... about the capacity of the labor movement to effect fundamental social change and a tendency to see its development as a process of steady, inevitable and unstoppable progress. As two contemporary labor ...   more details



  1. Labor history of the United States

    during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in Baltimore The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor , as well as more general history of working people, in the United States. Pressures dictating the nature and power of organized labor have included the Corporation ... Post Sept. 6, 2010 ref The Labor history discipline history of organized labor has been a Labour economics ... labor history . Much scholarship has attempted to bring the social history perspectives into the study of organized labor. Organized labor to 1900 Early unions The first local trade union s of men in the United ... Labor History 2007 , pp. 24, 27, 29 ref Western Federation of Miners Main Western Federation of Miners ...., Power, politics, and pessimism of the intelligence , Labor History , Aug 1999, Vol. 40 Issue 3, pp ... . ref Philip S. Foner, History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 4, The Industrial ... . ref Foner, Philip S. History of the Labor Movement in the United States Volume 8 Postwar Struggles ... to Union busting limit or Labor spies control trade union unions , and Labour law United States labor law U.S. labor law . As a response, organized unions and labor federations have Labor federation .... In the 1960s, as social history gained popularity, a new emphasis emerged on the history of workers ... Kessler Harris, Out to work a history of America s wage earning women in the United States, Oxford ... War Civil War , when the short lived National Labor Union NLU became the first federation of American .... According to the book American Labor , in 1834 1836 women worked 16 17 hours a day to earn 1.25 .... Co. reprint , pp. 4, 12 ref National Labor Union Main National Labor Union The National Labor Union NLU , founded in 1866, was the first national labor federation in the United States. It was dissolved ... organized and soon declined. They fought encroachments of machinery and unskilled labor on autonomy ... in Massachusetts, 1869 1878, Journal of Economic History 18 June, 1958 , 161 175. http www.jstor.org ...   more details



  1. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas

    Infobox journal title Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas cover File Labor journal low res cover.jpg editor Leon Fink discipline Labor Studies peer reviewed language former names abbreviation publisher Duke University Press country United States frequency Quarterly history 2004 present ... link2 name JSTOR OCLC 53708547 LCCN CODEN ISSN 1547 6715 eISSN boxwidth Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas is a peer review ed quarterly journal which publishes articles regarding the Labor history of the United States history of the labor movement in the United States . It is the official journal of the Labor and Working Class History Association LAWCHA and is published by Duke University Press . Labor is edited by Leon Fink historian Leon Fink , distinguished professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago , who previously edited Labor History journal Labor History . Scope .... Publication History Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas was founded in February 2004 when the entire editorial board of Labor History journal Labor History , as well as much ... Glenn title Editor of Labor History Quits, and Dozens Join Him Oxford Press Hires Editor From Princeton ... chronicle.com article Editor of Labor History 32338 accessdate 28 October 2011 ref . According to Leon Fink, the former editor of Labor History journal Labor History and editor of the new Labor Studies ... editor in chief of Labor History and editor of the new Labor, the principal issue was maintaining ... www.lawcha.org Labor and Working Class History Association References reflist DEFAULTSORT Labor Studies ... under which they perform work. Although much of the journal s focus is on labor unions in the United ... and domestic labor, informal employment, and other topics. Articles focus primarily on the United States , but the journal has begun to focus on labor movements in North America North and South America as well as transnational comparisons that shed light on the American labor movement. The target audience ...   more details



  1. Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project

    The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project , of the Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects, is dedicated to social movements and Labor history discipline labor history in the Pacific Northwest . It is directed by Professor James N. Gregory of the University of Washington . The project represents a unique collaboration between community organizations, UW faculty, as well as undergraduate and graduate students. Content The site provides over 70 oral history interviews with short video excerpts and brief biographies, as well as a listing of historic Civil Rights organizations, a page on Seattle s ethnic press, a resource with lesson plans for teachers, films and slidewhows, and a page with in depth historical essays that explore various issues, incidents and people. Each fully illustrated with photos and newspaper articles. Special sections Also in the project is a special sections area featuring nine different sections which showcase comprehensive reports, oral histories, photo collections, and documents about many of the prominent movements and organizations involved in Seattle s rich history of Civil Rights and Labor activism. External links http depts.washington.edu civilr Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project http faculty.washington.edu gregoryj pnwlabor Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights History Projects Category University of Washington ...   more details



  1. Labor and Working-Class History Association

    Infobox Union name LAWCHA full name Labor and Working Class History Association image founded 1998 country .... Labor and Working Class History Association LAWCHA is a non profit association of academics ... of materials on the history of the labor movement in North America North and South ... activist organizations, and to make labor history more accessible to union members and other .... History LAWCHA was founded in 1998 . At the time, various Labor history discipline labor scholars ... not focus on labor history and lacked an emphasis on workers and local worker organizations. Conversations ... Labor History Conference. The constitution was approved, and LAWCHA officially founded. Jacquelyn ... 1999, and held its first public meetings as part of a panel at the 1999 North American Labor History ... Fuerer maintains a teaching focused labor history bibliography http www.niu.edu rfeurer labor indexpage.html , and Peter Filardo publishes a general labor history bibliography http lawcha.org bibliography.php . LAWCHA s second publication is Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas ... of the staff of the journal Labor History journal Labor History left that publication after a disagreement ... Leon Fink , the former editor of Labor History , the principal issue was maintaining the journal ... an agreement which led to the founding of Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas . Labor is co published by LAWCHA and Duke University Press. Labor Studies in Working Class History of the Americas ... Wayne State University s North American Labor History Convention in Detroit in May 2007 it co sponsored the Southern Labor History Conference at Duke in June 2008 it co sponsored the 40th annual ... student presented at the North American Labor History Conference. In 2007 it inaugurated the Herbert Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in U.S. Labor and Working Class History. Also starting in 2007 it began a collaboration with Cornell University , and the Philip Taft Labor History Book ...   more details



  1. History of labor law in the United States

    History of labor law in the United States refers to the development of US labor law , or legal relations between workers, their employers and trade union s in the United States of America. Pre independence History of UK labour law Nineteenth century Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Thirteenth Amendment Commonwealth v. Pullis 1806 or the Philadelphia Cordwainers case , holding unions were criminal conspiracies Commonwealth v. Hunt 1842 , holding that workers have the right to organize and strike. Vegelahn v. Guntner , 167 Mass. 92 1896 Holmes J dissenting in the Massachusetts Supreme Court , argued that organisation on the worker side is necessary to counter combination on the side of capital, if the market is to work fairly. Horace Gray Wood , Master and Servant 1877 Antitrust and the Lochner era see also US antitrust law Sherman Act of 1890 Loewe v. Lawlor http www.law.cornell.edu supct html historics USSC CR 0208 0274 ZS.html 208 U.S. 274 1908 or The Danbury Hatters case Lochner v. New York , ussc 198 45 1905 Clayton Act of 1914 Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering , 41 S. Ct. 172 1921 Modern labour law see also New Deal Railway Labor Act of 1926 Norris LaGuardia ... Act of 1988 WARN Act Employee Free Choice Act See also US labor law History of labour law in the United Kingdom Notes reflist 2 References For a more detailed guide Labor unions in the United States ... at Will Rule 1976 20 2 The American Journal of Legal History 118 Books External links DEFAULTSORT History Of Labor Law In The United States Category Labor history Category History of labor relations ... 219 1941 National Labor Relations Act of 1935 NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 , minimum wage and overtime Employment Act of 1946 Post war regulation Labor Management ... agreements Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 or the Landrum Griffin Act ... and fiduciary duties Federal Labor Relations Act of 1978 , allowing public sector unions Humphrey ...   more details



  1. Philip Taft Labor History Book Award

    Use mdy dates date October 2010 The Philip Taft Labor History Book Award is sponsored by the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations in cooperation with the Labor and Working Class History Association for books relating to labor history of the United States . Labor history is considered in a broad sense to include the history of workers free and unfree, organized and unorganized ..., gender, and ethnicity. The award is named after the noted labor historian Philip Taft 1902 1976 . Winners of the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award 1978 David M. Katzman for Seven Days a Week Women ... A Working Class History between Empire and Revolution 2010 Seth Rockman for Scraping By Wage Labor ... Labor History Book Award at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations http www.lovethebook.com Awards.aspx?bookaward Philip Taft Labor History Book Award Philip Taft Labor History ... and the Rise of the UAW 1980 no award made 1981 James A. Gross for Reshaping of the National Labor ... for Out to Work A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States and Howell John Harris for The Right ... for Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Workers Union, 1933 1941 1985 Jacqueline Jones for Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present 1986 Alexander Keyssar ... a New Deal Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919 1939 1991 Steve Fraser for Labor Will Rule Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor 1992 Douglas Flamming for Creating the Modern South Millhands ... Manors Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal 1999 Joseph McCartin for Labor s Great War The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912 1921 2000 Jefferson R. Cowie for Capital Moves RCA s 70 Year Quest for Cheap Labor 2001 Gunther Peck for Reinventing Free Labor Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880 1930 2002 Alice Kessler ... America 2003 Nelson Lichtenstein for State of the Union A Century of American Labor 2004 co winners ...   more details



  1. Labor's Heritage

    Labor s Heritage was a journal which published articles regarding the Labor history of the United States history of the labor movement in the United States . The journal published articles which are scholarly in quality but written for more of a mass audience. Articles cover Labor history discipline labor history , labor education, labor culture, interviews with current and former labor leaders and activists, the contemporary American labor movement , and news and information about the National Labor College . The target audience for the journal was academics, students, workers, and labor movement officials and activists. Labor s Heritage was founded in 1989, and was published quarterly by the National Labor College until 2004. See also trade union labor union External links http www.nlc.edu archives lh.html Labor s Heritage Web site http www.nlc.edu National Labor College References Reflist Unreferenced date May 2010 italic title Category American history magazines Category Magazines established in 1989 Category Magazines disestablished in 2004 Category National Labor College Category Quarterly magazines Category English language magazines US hist stub magazine stub ...   more details



  1. Labor relations

    Labor relations is the study and practice of managing unionized employment situations. In academia, labor relations is frequently a subarea within industrial relations , though scholars from many disciplines including economics, sociology, history, law, and political science also study labor unions and labor movements. In practice, labor relations is frequently a subarea within human resource management . Courses in labor relations typically cover labor history, labor law, union organizing, bargaining, contract administration, and important contemporary topics. ref John W. Budd 2010 Labor Relations Striking a Balance , 3rd ed. Boston McGraw Hill Irwin . ref In the United States, labor relations in the private sector is regulated by the National Labor Relations Act . Public sector labor relations is regulated by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 and various pieces of state legislation. In other countries, labor relations might be regulated by law or tradition. An important professional association for U.S. labor relations scholars and practitioners is the Labor and Employment Relations Association . Labour Notes reflist Category Labour law de Arbeitsverh ltnis lt Darbo santykiai pl Stosunek pracy pt Rela o de emprego ...   more details



  1. Labor Age

    Labor Age was a left labor monthly magazine published by the Labor Publication Society from 1921 1933. It succeeded the Socialist Review , journal of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society . Labor Age aligned with the League for Industrial Democracy , and during 1929 33 the magazine was affiliated with the Conference for Progressive Labor Action with A. J. Muste playing a prominent role. Other important figures associated with Labor Age were James Maurer , Harry W. Laidler , and Louis Budenz . The magazine advocated industrial unionism , economic planning and the nationalization of industries. It was also a major promoter of the workers education movement. Footnotes reflist Jon Bloom and Paul Buhle, Intercollegiate Socialist Society and Successors, Encyclopedia of the American Left Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1990 , pp362 363. Category Labor related organizations Category Political magazines Category History of the United States 1918 1945 ...   more details



  1. The labor problem

    The labor problem is an economics term widely used toward the turn of the twentieth century with various applications. ref the labor problem. Roberts, Harold Selig. 1994. Roberts Dictionary of Industrial Relations. p. 406 ref It has been defined in various ways, such as the problem of improving the conditions of employment of the wage earning classes. ref Adams, Thomas Sewall. 1908. Labor Problems A Text Book. p. 3 ref However, its cause is universal failure to account for the negative externality of reproduction in the face of finite natural resources results in over supply of labor and falling living standards for wage laborers. See also Portal Organized labour Labor unrest Socialism References reflist DEFAULTSORT Labor problem Category Production economics Category Economics terminology Category History of economic thought Category Labor economics Economic term stub ...   more details



  1. Labor Day

    Allyn and Bacon isbn 9780205510719 page 20 ref See also International Workers Day Labor history of the United ...distinguish Labour Day pp move indef Infobox Holiday type secular holiday name Labor Day observedby United States image Labor Day New York 1882.jpg caption Labor Day Parade, Union Square New York City ... Labour Day Labor Day is a Federal holidays in the United States United States federal holiday observed ... in CURRENTYEAR that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. History ... Central Labor Union of New York. ref name labordept cite web url http www.dol.gov opa aboutdol laborday.htm title United States Department of Labor The History of Labor Day accessdate 2011 09 02 ref Others argue that it was first proposed by Peter J. McGuire of the American Federation of Labor ... Labour Day Canada labor festival held in Toronto, Canada. ref name origins cite web url http ... in 1887. By the time it became a federal holiday in 1894, thirty states officially celebrated Labor ... , President Grover Cleveland reconciled with the labor movement . Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through United States Congress Congress unanimously ... www.pbs.org newshour bb business september96 labor day 9 2.html title Online NewsHour Origins of Labor ... id 2106168 author Brendan I. Koerner title Why do we get Labor Day off publisher Slate Magazine .... Pattern of celebration The form for the celebration of Labor Day was outlined in the first proposal ... and labor organizations , ref name labordept followed by a festival for the workers and their families. This became the pattern for Labor Day celebrations. Speeches by prominent men and women ... later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor ... or political demonstrations are more low key than International Workers Day May 1 Labor Day celebrations ...   more details



  1. Labor notes

    Labor notes may refer to Labor Notes organization , a 20th century labor organization and its eponymous magazine Labor notes currency , an alternative currency based on exchange of hours of labor disambiguation ...   more details



  1. Labor camp

    A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in Penal labour penal labor . Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prison s. Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators. Labor camps in various countries Albania See Forced labour camps in Communist Albania Forced labor camps in Communist Albania Allied Forces The Allies of World ... it was agreed that German forced labor was to be utilized as reparations. The majority of the camps were in the Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union Soviet Union , but more than 1,000,000 ... run Military Labor Service Units in occupied Germany itself. ref John Dietrich, The Morgenthau Plan Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy 2002 ISBN 1 892941 90 2 ref See Forced labor of Germans after World War II . Bulgaria See Forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria Forced labor camps in Communist Bulgaria China The Communist Party of China has operated many labor camps for some crimes. Many leaders of China were put into labor camps after purge s, including Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi . May Seventh Cadre Schools are an example of Cultural Revolution era labor camps. As a matter of fact, hundreds if not thousands of labor camps and forced labor prisons laogai still exist in modern day China, ref http www.cnn.com SPECIALS 1999 china.50 red.giant prisons wu.essay Labor camps reinforce ... y03 jan03 20o1.htm A book sheds light on a dark chapter in Cuban history , El Nuevo Herald , January ... forced labor camps were created. The inmates included political prisoner s, clergy , kulaks , Scouting ... During World War II the Nazis operated several categories of Arbeitslager Labor Camps for different ... countries see apanka to provide labor in the German war industry, repair bombed railroads ... Laborers in the Third Reich By Ulrich Herbert ref The Nazis Forced labor in Germany during World War ... , some of which provided free forced labor for industrial and other jobs while others existed purely ...   more details



  1. Knights of Labor

    labour convict labor . They were eager supporters of Worker cooperative cooperatives . The Knights of Labor had a mixed history of inclusiveness and exclusiveness, accepting women and African American ... on steel industry Fink, Leon. The New Labor History and the Powers of Historical Pessimism Consensus, Hegemony, and the Case of the Knights of Labor, Journal of American History Vol. 75, No. 1 Jun., 1988 .... Grob, Gerald N. The Knights of Labor and the Trade Unions, 1878 1886, Journal of Economic History ... Woman Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor, Journal of American History Vol. 70 ... The Knights of Labor and American Politics journal Journal of Interdisciplinary History volume ... Vincent authorlink title The Labor Movement The Problem of To day Chapter XV The History of the Knights ...File Knights of labor seal.gif thumb right 250px The Great Seal of the Knights of Labor The Knights of Labor K of L officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor was the largest and one of the most important American labor federation labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leader ... in the United States republicanism . In some cases it acted as a labor union, negotiating .... ref Kemmerer and Wickersham, 1950 ref Remnants of the Knights of Labor continued in existence until 1949, when the group s last 50 member local dropped its affiliation. Organizational History Origins ... Workman of the Knights of Labor during its meteoric rise and precipitous decline. On December 1869 ..., established a secret union under the name the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor. The collapse of the National Labor Union in 1873, left a vacuum for workers looking for organization. The Knights became ... more as a labor union and less like a fraternal organization. Local assemblies began not only ..., Beyond labor s veil the culture of the Knights of Labor 1996 p 94 ref Though initially averse ... of Labor, which had caused the turmoil originally. These positive developments gave momentum and a surge ...   more details



  1. Affective labor

    its history is as old as that of Labour economics labor itself, affective labor has been of increasing ... , frequently ignored by other analysts of labor, has also been a critical focus of theories of Affective Labor. ref Federici, Silvia 2004 Caliban and the Witch Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY Autonomedia. ref History The phrase Affective Labor, seen broadly, has its roots in the Autonomist ...Affective Labor is a Terminology term identifying Labour economics work carried out that is intended ... critiques of marginalized and so called invisible labor, it has been the focus of critical discussions .... The most visible institutionalized form of affective labor is perhaps advertising , which typically ... other areas in which affective labor figures prominently, including service industry service and care ... that is able to move away from purely industrial labor. In particular, the Fragment on Machines , from Marx s Grundrisse, and conceptions of Immaterial Labor decentered the focus of labor theory and sparked debate over what constituted real labor blockquote No longer does the worker insert a modified ... sectors of the economy and challenge the typical, male and industrial focus of labor studies. Hardt and Negri on affective labor Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt have begun to develop this concept in their books ..., Hardt and Negri focus on the role affective labor plays in the current mode of production which can .... Affective labor, then, is labor that produces or manipulates affects.... One can recognize affective labor, for example, in the work of legal assistants, flight attendants, and fast food workers service with a smile . One indication of the rising importance of affective labor, at least in the dominant ... is another way of saying a worker is adept at affective labor ref Hardt, M. and Negri, A. 2004 Multitude ... point in their scholarship with respect to this issue is that immaterial labor, of which affective labor is a specific form, has achieved dominance in the current mode of production. This does ...   more details



  1. Labor army

    dablink This article is about the notion of the labor army in the history of the Soviet Union . See Labor army disambiguation for other meanings. The notion of the Labor army , ... the term was applied to regiments of Red Army transferred from military activity to labor activity, such as logging , coal mining, Wood fuel firewood stocking, etc. Russian Civil War The first labor army ... of the universal labor duty . In the case of workers, this could be done with the help with trade ..., for their own state, i.e., labor duty is the fulfilment of the obligations of the liberated working ... of the labor army ended, especially after Joseph Stalin s assumption of power and the implementation of his policies of History of the Soviet Union 1927 1953 Industrialization in practice industrialization ... mobilization both in industry and agriculture. World War II The term labor army re emerged during the second world war as an informal reference to the obligatory labor duty introduced during 1941. Conscription to labor duty was similar to military mobilization. The mobilized persons were informally called trudarmeytsy , i.e., labor army ists . Soviet Germans This section is linked from History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union A notable category of labor armyists German Trudarmisten were History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union Soviet Germans . It started in 1941 ... of these soldiers were sent to the Labor Army. ref name pohl1 During 1942 eventually all male Germans ... 3 years were conscripted to labor duty. Most of them worked at NKVD objects i.e., basically in the same ..., general construction, and other industries. Many lost their lives in the labor army. Basically the Labor army was dismissed during 1945, but Germans were held for much longer. During 1948 they were ... the last days of the Soviet Union , the Soviet Army incorporated the idea of the labor army. With obligatory ... Corps Reserve army of labour Reserve Army of Labour Reichsarbeitsdienst Labor battalion References ...   more details



  1. Skill (labor)

    States such factors have caused an overall increase in the supply of skilled labor during the 20th century. The shift from unskilled to skilled labor can be attributed to increases in human ... capital and total factor productivity. Relative demand of skilled labor One of the factors that increases the relative demand for skilled labor is attributed to the introduction of computers. In order ... of machinery works. Thus, there is an increase in the demand for skilled labor. In addition to the technological ... labor which, in turn, also shifts out the demand curve. Technology, however, is not the only factor ... labor. One case includes a developed country purchasing imports from a developing country, which in turn replaces products made with domestic low skilled labor. This, in turn, decreased the demand ... Automation Unionization Deskilling Category Labor Category Skills Socio stub ...   more details



  1. Labor Daily

    The Labor Daily was a Sydney based journal newspaper of the early to mid 20th century. An organ of the Australian Labor Party , it was published in Sydney by Stanley Roy Wasson after the ailing Daily Mail was absorbed by Labor Papers Ltd, who began publication under that name on 6 January 1922 with the strong support of Albert Willis unionist Albert Willis and the Miners Federation. ref http www.jstor.org pss 27508405 Walker, R B The Fall of The Labor Daily Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Inc. 1980 ref Willis was managing director 1926 1931 ref http www.parliament.nsw.gov.au prod PARLMENT Members.nsf ec78138918334ce3ca256ea200077f5d 8c4da68f170ee6d6ca256e7b001226d9?OpenDocument ref and chairman 1924 1930 and one of the most powerful political figures in the state. ref http adbonline.anu.edu.au biogs A120572b.htm ref After a few weeks the paper s name was changed to the Labor Daily and was a supporter of Jack Lang Australian politician Lang Labor. In 1929 receivers sold Beckett s Budget to Labor Daily Ltd. The paper also became the major sponsor of the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership from 1934, with the winners of the competition from 1934 to 1950 being awarded the Labour Daily Cup. ref http dazrl.awardspace.info h prem.htm ref From 1 December 1938 the Labor Daily became the Daily News which lasted until 1941 when it was taken over by The Daily Telegraph Australia The Daily Telegraph . Contributors Artists who contributed to the paper included Will Mahony who later drew the famous Chest Bond strip ref http www.australianreview.net journal ... cartonist 1928 1930 ref http www.daao.org.au main read 1122 ref Publications Labor Daily was involved ... Labor Daily Printers 1931 as well as the more mundane work such as Union rule books. ref http catalogue.nla.gov.au Record 1462864 ref Sources http catalogue.nla.gov.au Record 2310175 The Labor ... of Sydney Newspapers a Short History by Victor Isaacs and Rod Kirkpatrick http ketupa.net associated.htm ...   more details



  1. Labor rights

    labor Labor rights or workers rights are a group of legal rights and claimed human rights having to do with labor relations between workers and their employers , usually obtained under labor and employment ... to increase their members wages and otherwise change their working situation. The labor movement initially focused on this right to unionize , but attention has shifted elsewhere. Critics of the labor rights movement claim that regulation promoted by labor rights activists may limit opportunities ... require an open shop where a worker s employment is not affected by his union membership. Labor counters that the open shop leads to a free rider problem . Background Throughout history, workers ... 12 hours a day. Labor rights are a relatively new addition to the modern corpus of human rights. The modern concept of labor rights dates to the 19th century after the creation of labor unions following ... advocates for workers rights. His philosophy and economic theory focused on labor issues and advocates ... international labor standards to create legal rights for workers across the world. Recent movements have also been made to encourage countries to promote labor rights at the international level through fair trade . ref name unhchr.ch Core Labor Standards Identified by the International Labour Organisation ... Handbooks Core Labor Standards default.asp ref core labor standards are widely recognized to be of particular ... advantage that developing countries may hold. Core labor standards are important human ... ratification 4.htm ref The core labor standards are Freedom of association ref ICCPR Art.22, ILO ... of forced labor ref ICCPR Art. 8, ILO Conventions 29 and 105 ref includes security from prison labor ... Labor Standards in the WTO Reducing labor to a global commodity , Working USA , vol.5, Iss. 1 pp 9 ref Elimination of the worst forms of child labor ref CROC Art. 32 ILO Convention 138 ref implementing ... of these core labor rights into the mechanisms of the World Trade Organization, see ...   more details



  1. Preterm labor

    Preterm labor may refer to Premature birth Prodromal labor disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages ...   more details




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