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Category Archives: labor history
AAAS 2018 Conference Roundup
in american history, asian american studies, conferences, labor history, migration, Uncategorized
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Are you headed to the 2018 Association for Asian American Studies conference in San Francisco? We are! Here is a preview of new books in The Asian American Experience series to look out for at AAAS. Here are 5 books to … Continue reading
#PressforProgress Reading List: Must-read books on Women in Labor
in #PressforProgress, american history, feminist studies, labor history, Little Free Library, Uncategorized, women's history
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In honor of Women’s History Month, UIP will be releasing weekly reading lists with some of our favorite women’s history books. We are joining the call to #PressforProgress for gender equality, and we will be updating our Little Free … Continue reading
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
in labor history
Tagged Canada, Disaster Citizenship, disasters, urban studies, World War I
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion, one of the worst maritime disasters in Canadian history. Two thousand people died and 9,000 were hurt when the SS Mont-Blanc, full of a cargo of explosives, collided with the SS Imo, a Norwegian … Continue reading
Authors on Issues: What do Employers have to do with Individualism and Racism?
in american history, author commentary, authors, Authors on Issues, labor history
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In this latest installment in our Authors on Issues series, Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, co-editors of the edited collection Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism, write about how employers use racism to divide … Continue reading
“Working for Change: Stories of Labor History in Illinois”
in american history, Illinois / regional, labor history
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An exhibit titled “Working for Change: Stories of Labor History in Illinois” greets visitors as they enter the North-South Corridor of the main library on the UIUC campus. A series of six cases filled with objects ranging from flyers and … Continue reading
Backlist Bop: Women’s work is never done
in labor history, women's history
Tagged Dennis W. Deslippe, labor studies, women's studies
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Although the most visible banners of feminism were carried by educated, white-collar, professional women, in fact, working-class women were a powerful force in the campaign for gender equality. “Rights, Not Roses” explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to … Continue reading
UIP authors around the Internet
in american history, author commentary, authors, labor history, politics, sports history
Tagged Chad Pearson, Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, John McKerley, Mark A. Lause, Michael J. Socolow, Olympic history, politicians
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A roundup of recent media activity by Press authors: Michael J. Socolow , author of Six Minutes in Berlin, contributed to an in-depth Only a Game piece on pioneering sportswriter Ted Husing and his secret effort at helping a Jewish family … Continue reading
Our lives and all lives under the silicon heel
in all things digital, labor history, radical studies
Tagged Asian studies, China, labor studies, slavery, technology
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Excerpted from the new UIP book Goodbye iSlave, by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Hans Rollman at PopMatters reviewed the book here. Welcome to a brave New World of profit making, propelled by high technology, guarded by enterprising authority, carried forward by millions of … Continue reading
Release Party: Civic Labors, edited by Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John W. McKerley
in education, labor history
Tagged Civic Labors, Dennis Deslippe, education, Eric Fure-Slocum, John W. McKerley, labor studies, teaching
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Civic Labors . . . is intended to prompt further discussion about engaged scholarship and teaching. The essays will help readers to think further about the theory and practices of engagement and scholar-activism, asking what publics ought to be addressed … Continue reading
Release Party: Goodbye iSlave
in asian american studies, labor history, world history
Tagged consumerism, labor studies, slavery, Taiwan
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How do we lift the silicon heel from the lives of the exploited workers who make our gadgets? Jack Linchuan Qiu‘s insightful and enraging new book Goodbye iSlave delves into one of the most important, and willfully overlooked, moral issues of our time. … Continue reading
