Makes the important case for how the civil rights and feminist movements created and opportunity to expand the labor movement in powerful ways. And, how the rise and expansion of the right used numerous tactics to deeply challenge and hurt the labor mvmt.
Windham connects labor's heyday of winning in the ss to the destruction of labor's power in the s by showing the s were a decade of women and people of color pushing to be included in the promises of the New Deal by mass participation in labor.
Windham argued that the s was a huge upsurge in labor across the board, but corporate power got really good at winning NLRB elections through threats, manipulation of rules, and outright breaking of the law. Thus, though there were many Windham has written an important revisionist, corrective account of s labor history that eschews the prevailing narrative of stagnation and decline by a self-satisfied bureaucracy in favor of an understanding, based on an innovative archive that mixes NLRB records with more in depth accounts of individual struggles, of the s as a decade when organizing exploded into new sectors and the working class transformed itself.
The documentary uncovers inspiring and useful history and shows organizing as rewarding, engaging, and joyous. A "pop-up" online screening tonight will feature the filmmaker. Clearly written qualitative analysis of the decline of unions in the s in the US, with several interesting case studies of unionization and attempts at unionization in that period.
Bardeau, Deer Clan English-Onsndowa'ga: ' Seneca dictionary is a cultural and linguistic treasure trove. Eileen, a fluent first language speaker and elder, speaks and records the Onsndowa'ga: ' language as she learned it from her grandmother, several generations ago before the building of the Kinzua Dam in the s. Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want.
Young adults are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these challenges, media scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this moment of precarity is rife with opportunities for innovation, and that young adults are leading the charge in turning that into an inventive and surprisingly sustainable future.
As a result, society is expanding its understanding of who we think of as innovators and what qualifies as innovation, while wealth is spreading beyond traditional corridors of powerful tech companies, venture capitalism, and well-endowed universities. Drawing on over ten years of interviews and data, Watkins reveals the radical ways in which this community of ambitious young creatives is transforming businesses from the outside in.
Diverse perspectives that are often ignored or silenced by major corporations are garnering public attention as women and people of color are redefining industries across the globe—all from their computer screens. We meet people like Prince Harvey, a New York—based hip-hop artist who recorded his album entirely on an Apple showroom laptop; screenwriter, producer, and actor Issa Rae, who first used YouTube and Kickstarter to develop the web series that became her hit HBO show Insecure; the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization created by product design student Veronika Scott in Detroit; and start-up companies like Qeyno Group in San Francisco and Juegos Rancheros in Austin that help make tech more accessible to people of color.
Annotation Originally offered in two separate volumes, this staple of Georgetown University Press's world-renowned Arabic language program now handily provides both the English to Arabic and Arabic to English texts in one volume. The Dictionary of Louisiana French DLF provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from to the present.
This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions.
In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after , and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry.
Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation including attested variants , the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases.
The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane.
Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible danger in order to save the man she loves. On Facebook. Recounting how employees attempted to unionize against overwhelming odds, Knocking on Labor's Door dramatically refashions the narrative of working-class struggle during a crucial decade and shakes up current debates about labor's future.
For more information about Lane Windham, visit the Author Page. With meticulous research and graceful prose, she challenges our outworn preconceptions. Her narrative of labor's recent past deepens our understanding of its present challenges and helps us imagine its future.
Rarely have I felt as great an urge to stand up and cheer when reading a work of history as I did while reading this one.
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