The Pew and the Picket Line
The Pew and the Picket Line

Author: Christopher D. Cantwell

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2016-02-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780252081484

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The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan, Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.

Picket Line
Picket Line

Author: Tom McCarty

Publisher:

Published: 2020-01-03

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 9781678643348

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On February 9, 2000, the largest white-collar strike in the private sector in U.S. labor history was called against the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. The engineers and technicians represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace walked away from good-paying jobs for forty days and forty nights. This book is a first-person narrative of the experiences of that strike. The strike was unprecedented in the union's history. The local media, Boeing management and the workers themselves had little confidence that this strike would last more than a few days.This narrative explores the motivation and the issues that compelled these workers to give up the security of a regular paycheck and face the uncertainty of a prolonged labor strike. This strike was unique in many ways. This strike grew from the dissatisfaction with the lack of respect in management's treatment of engineering and technical employees.Tom is an Electrical Engineer who spent 41 years at the Boeing Company. Shortly after graduating from Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, he accepted a job with the Boeing. Tom is a former President of SPEEA, the union which represents the Engineers, Technicians and Training Pilots in the Pacific Northwest.

On the Picket Line
On the Picket Line

Author: Mary Eleanor Triece

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0252073916

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Working-class women's creative challenges to oppressive gender norms and workplace discrimination

Yazoo
Yazoo

Author: Albert Talmon Morgan

Publisher:

Published: 1884

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13:

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On Strike and on Film
On Strike and on Film

Author: Ellen R. Baker

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1469606542

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In 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952. In On Strike and on Film, Ellen Baker examines the building of a leftist union that linked class justice to ethnic equality. She shows how women's participation in union activities paved the way for their taking over the picket lines and thereby forcing their husbands, and the union, to face troubling questions about gender equality. Baker also explores the collaboration between mining families and blacklisted Hollywood filmmakers that resulted in the controversial 1954 film Salt of the Earth. She shows how this worker-artist alliance gave the mining families a unique chance to clarify the meanings of the strike in their own lives and allowed the filmmakers to create a progressive alternative to Hollywood productions. An inspiring story of working-class solidarity, Mexican American dignity, and women's liberation, Salt of the Earth was itself blacklisted by powerful anticommunists, yet the movie has endured as a vital contribution to American cinema.

Foot Work
Foot Work

Author: Tansy E. Hoskins

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1474609872

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'Fascinating and eye-opening' OWEN JONES DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM? In 2019, 66.6 million pairs of shoes were manufactured across the world every single day. They have never been cheaper to buy, and we have never been more convinced that we need to buy them. Yet their cost to the planet has never been greater. In this urgent, passionately argued book, Tansy E. Hoskins opens our eyes to the dark origins of the shoes on our feet. Taking us deep into the heart of an industry that is exploiting workers and deceiving consumers, we begin to understand that if we don't act fast, this humble household object will take us to the point of no return.

Picket Line
Picket Line

Author: Breena Wiederhoeft

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9780983661214

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In the shadows of towering Redwoods, battle lines are drawn. Here we meet Beatrice, a young Midwestern woman living in Northern California, attempting to sooth her restless cravings for belonging. Caught in the mounting battle between environmental protesters and an unpopular but powerful developer, Beatrice must balance her loyalty to well-meaning locals on one side of the controversy, and her growing concern for the threatened Redwoods. It is in this precarious in-between state that Breena Wiederhoeft's debut graphic novel sets up camp, and its characters take their stand.

Strike for the Common Good
Strike for the Common Good

Author: Rebecca Kolins Givan

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 047212840X

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In February 2018, 35,000 public school educators and staff walked off the job in West Virginia. More than 100,000 teachers in other states—both right-to-work states, like West Virginia, and those with a unionized workforce—followed them over the next year. From Arizona, Kentucky, and Oklahoma to Colorado and California, teachers announced to state legislators that not only their abysmal wages but the deplorable conditions of their work and the increasingly straitened circumstances of public education were unacceptable. These recent teacher walkouts affirm public education as a crucial public benefit and understand the rampant disinvestment in public education not simply as a local issue affecting teacher paychecks but also as a danger to communities and to democracy. Strike for the Common Good gathers together original essays, written by teachers involved in strikes nationwide, by students and parents who have supported them, by journalists who have covered these strikes in depth, and by outside analysts (academic and otherwise). Together, the essays consider the place of these strikes in the broader landscape of recent labor organizing and battles over public education, and attend to the largely female workforce and, often, largely non-white student population of America’s schools.