Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas最新文献

{"title":"Rise of the Timber Beast—Northern Minnesota, 1917","authors":"A. Boulton","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10237850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10237850","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79355247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice","authors":"Robert Korstad","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10238046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10238046","url":null,"abstract":"Highlander Center has been indispensable to the struggle for social and economic justice in the US South. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and others as the Highlander Folk School, the center has transformed itself over the years to meet the challenges of the times. Initially, Highlander focused on the educational and organizational needs of working-class people in East Tennessee. In the late 1930s and 1940s it served primarily as a training center for CIO unions across the region. In the 1950s and 1960s, it redirected its efforts to support southern civil rights struggles. And during the last decades of the twentieth century, it was heavily involved in economic and environmental battles in Appalachia.Stephen Preskill's Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice is the most recent book about Horton and the institution he led. Most previous books have been written by people with close ties to the center, including one by Horton himself. Preskill doesn't intend his book to be a revision of that scholarship or a comprehensive history of the man or the place. It is, instead, an exploration of the educational vision of both.The story begins in western Tennessee, where Horton grew up. His parents had eighth-grade educations and taught briefly in the public schools. But they spent most of their lives moving around the region looking for jobs to keep their family clothed and fed. One thing was constant in their migrant life: their desire for their children to get the best education possible.Horton was a good student and voracious reader, but his real education came from witnessing the poverty and racial discrimination that characterized the region. After graduating from college and teaching for a few years, Horton enrolled at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he studied with Reinhold Niebuhr as well as Columbia University's John Dewey. A year at the University of Chicago brought him in contact with the sociologist Robert Park and Hull House's Jane Addams. Uninterested in an academic career, Horton took off for Denmark to learn about the Danish folk schools and their focus on adult learning. By the end of the trip, he had developed a vision for Highlander Folk School, his institutional home for the rest of his life.Stephen Preskill argues that popular education was central to Highlander's vision throughout the transformations of the past ninety years. Popular education was not about credentials or degrees. It was a process in which people started from their own experiences, learned from each other, and then worked collaboratively toward a transformative political goal. The workshops and training sessions that brought thousands of people to Highlander were based on this principle.Preskill addresses some of the most difficult issues in Highlander's past: the slow process of racially integrating workshops and training programs; the problematic relationship between Horton and the more conservati","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Making and Breaking of a Popular Front: The Case of the National Negro Congress","authors":"E. Arnesen","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10237864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10237864","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Drawing together members of the American Communist Party and a variety of non-Communist progressives in the common cause of racial equality, labor rights, and antifascism, the National Negro Congress represented a visible example of the Popular Front (1935/1936–39) in action. This article explores how a Popular Front alliance came into being by tracing the events of 1935 that led Communists to eschew their prior sectarianism and non-Communists to recognize the value of collaboration with their now-former rivals. It also contends that contrary to what some recent scholarship argues, from the outset the Communist influence on the NNC’s formation and operation was considerable—even decisive—and that after the signing of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact, the party’s new antiwar stance and its numerical dominance at the NNC’s third conference in 1940 led to the collapse of the Popular Front alliance. Understanding the rise and fall of the NNC as a progressive coalition requires a critical evaluation of the role of the Communist Party in the NNC’s accomplishments and failures.","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90883039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike by Jacob A. Zumoff (review)","authors":"Christopher Phelps","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10238102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10238102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72465127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party by Michael Kazin (review)","authors":"E. Shermer","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10238004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10238004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79745812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Making of a Periphery: How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor by Ulbe Bosma (review)","authors":"Kris Alexanderson","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10237934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10237934","url":null,"abstract":"Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 20, Issue 1 © 2023 by Labor and Working-Class History Association (4). Making Social Welfare Policy in America subordinates the role social movements and political allegiances play in shaping policy, instead charting how shifting political motivations are, at least to some extent, beholden to the administrative structures that emerge in moments of quick compromise. In his conclusion, Berkowitz invites readers to decide whether his approach or that of “social critics” yields better insights. Berkowitz abstains from the robust and worthwhile scholarly conversations about the trajectory of twentiethcentury US social policy and politics and how history helps us understand the problems we face today. But Making Social Policy in America is rife with insights about the changing priorities and values of US policymakers. It shows us why those of us interested in inequality should all pay attention to administrative structure and, tacitly, sheds light on the profound importance of universal social policy. Berkowitz doesn’t want to be a social critic, but his work has insights for people who do.","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86161027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation by Adam Malka (review)","authors":"M. Ross","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10238018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10238018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85745546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Movie Workers: The Women Who Made British Cinema by Melanie Bell (review)","authors":"C. Malone","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10237906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10237906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72450732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's Vision for Social Justice by Stephen Preskill (review)","authors":"R. Korstad","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10032590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10032590","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79689120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Roots of Populism: Neoliberalism and Working-Class Lives by Brian Elliott (review)","authors":"K. Gildart","doi":"10.1215/15476715-10032434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-10032434","url":null,"abstract":"Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, Volume 19, Issue 4 © 2022 by Labor and Working-Class History Association interviews. The result is a portrait of slave life, and of slave masculinity, that is highly contentious but deeply human. Violence pervades this book: in the vertical relationships between enslavers and enslaved, in the horizontal interactions of enslaved men, and in the lateral bonds that connected people in the larger plantation economy. As Doddington notes, “While enslaved men and women formed positive relationships with one another and created a strong gendered identity in their social spaces, they were also places where reputations were lost, and this mattered too” (210). Contesting Slave Masculinity is an excellent book that confirms, expands, and challenges much of what we know about the gendered nature of American slavery.","PeriodicalId":43329,"journal":{"name":"Labor-Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74895766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}