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Tag Archives: labor studies
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
Purple ribbons and red clothes for International Women’s Day
in feminist studies, gender studies, women's history
Tagged feminism, gender studies, International Women's Day, labor studies, women's studies
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It is International Women’s Day, comrade! By universal proclamation we honor women and dedicate ourselves to helping them overcome the many obstacles they still face in this man’s world. Indeed, some people intend to observe the day with A Day Without … Continue reading
Release Party: Networking China, by Yu Hong
in communication
Tagged Asian studies, China, international affairs, labor studies
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In recent years, China’s leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation’s next pillar industry. In Networking China, Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector’s political economy. Hong focuses on … Continue reading
Books win awards!
in american history, anthropology, awards, dance, gender studies, Illinois / regional
Tagged Asian studies, child development, Java, labor studies, sexuality, women's studies
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Two more authors added their excellent works to the UIP trophy case, a piece of furniture already fill to burstin’ in recent weeks. Christina Sunardi won the Philip Brett Award from the LBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS) for … 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
Release Party: The Making of Working Class Religion
in labor history, religion
Tagged Detroit, labor studies, Matthew Pehl
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Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America’s workers. Matthew Pehl focuses on Detroit to examine the religious consciousness constructed by the city’s working-class Catholics, African American Protestants, and southern-born white evangelicals and Pentecostals between 1910 and … Continue reading
How ’bout a Nice Hawaiian Putsch?
in american history, asian american studies, labor history, Latin American Studies
Tagged colonialism, Hawaii, Joanna Poblete, labor studies, Philippines, Puerto Rico
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For years, native Hawaiians had fought with a modest degree of success to maintain their autonomy. But in 1893, white businessmen—sugar magnates and the like—had taken control by tossing out Hawaii’s last monarch and organizing their own provisional government. Not … Continue reading