AFSCME's Philadelphia Story

AFSCME's Philadelphia Story
Author: Francis Ryan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439902798

AFSCME's Philadelphia Story provides the most comprehensive account of the early years of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which is one of the nation’s largest and most politically powerful unions in the AFL-CIO. Author Francis Ryan details the emergence of the Quaker City's interracial union, charting its beginnings in the political patronage system of one of the nation's most notorious political machines to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Ryan provides new insight into the working class origins of African American political power in the late twentieth century as well as a thorough overview of the role the municipal state played in the urban economy of one of the nation's largest cities. Ryan describes the work processes and how they changed, and uses workers' testimonies to ground the detailed accounts of issues and negotiations. Beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 2000s, Ryan's study offers a long-term analysis of the growth of a single union in a major American city.

Workers on Arrival

Workers on Arrival
Author: Joe William Trotter
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520377516

"An eloquent and essential correction to contemporary discussions of the American working class."—The Nation From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing, and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In his engrossing history, Workers on Arrival, Joe William Trotter, Jr., refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class’s vast contributions to the making of America. Covering the last four hundred years since Africans were first brought to Virginia in 1619, Trotter traces the complicated journey of black workers from the transatlantic slave trade to the demise of the industrial order in the twenty-first century. At the center of this compelling, fast-paced narrative are the actual experiences of these African American men and women. A dynamic and vital history of remarkable contributions despite repeated setbacks, Workers on Arrival expands our understanding of America’s economic and industrial growth, its cities, ideas, and institutions, and the real challenges confronting black urban communities today.

The Capitalist and the Activist

The Capitalist and the Activist
Author: Tom C. W. Lin
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523092556

2023 Axiom Business Books Award Silver Medalist (Business Commentary) 2023 Nautilus Book Award Silver Medalist (Social Change & Social Justice) This is the first in-depth examination of the important ongoing fusion of activism, capitalism, and social change masterfully told through a compelling narrative filled with vivid stories and striking studies. Corporations and their executives are at the forefront of some of the most contentious and important social issues of our time. Through pronouncements, policies, boycotts, sponsorships, lobbying, and fundraising, corporations are actively engaged in issues like immigration reform, gun regulation, racial justice, gender equality, and religious freedom. Despite corporate social activism being everywhere these days-witness how quickly companies and progressives united to oppose North Carolina's bathroom bill or support the Black Lives Matter movement-there has been no in-depth examination of the far-reaching consequences of this movement. What first principles should guide businesses' approaches? How should activists engage with businesses in a way that is most beneficial to their causes? What are potential pitfalls and risks associated with corporate social activism for activists, businesses, and society at large? Weaving studies and stories, Temple University professor of law, Tom C. W. Lin offers a road map for how we got here and a compass for where we are going as a nation of capitalists and activists seeking profit and progress.

Portraits in Steel

Portraits in Steel
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This powerful book documents--in images and words--the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills in Buffalo, New York, and then had to fashion new lives for themselves. It is the fruit of a collaboration between the celebrated documentary photographer Milton Rogovin and Michael Frisch, a leading figure in American oral history.

The Rise of American Research Universities

The Rise of American Research Universities
Author: Hugh Davis Graham
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2004-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801880636

In this important and timely work, Graham and Diamond reassess the success of American universities as research institutions and the role of public funding in their developmentfrom the expansionist golden yearsof the 1950s and '60s, through the austerity measures of the 1970s and the entrepreneurial ethos of the 1980s, to the budget crises universities face in the 1990s.

Planet Damnation

Planet Damnation
Author: John Psathas
Publisher: Promethean Editions Limited
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1776601726

John Psathas’ mighty work for timpani and orchestra, Planet Damnation, takes five-drum solo timpani writing to the edge of technical possibility. This edition is a complete performance package and includes a digital audio download that contains a professionally sequenced orchestral backing track. The download includes a performance mix without solo timpani, a reference mix with the solo timpani part, and practice mixes set at various tempi. It is perfect for extending your skills in the percussion studio and thrilling listeners with Psathas’ high energy music in advanced student recitals, auditions and concerto competitions. Please note that the digital audio files are not provided with this version from GooglePlay. You may download the files here: https://43.dpdcart.com/product/130794

John Brown, 1800-1859

John Brown, 1800-1859
Author: Oswald Garrison Villard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 816
Release: 1910
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

The present volume is inspired by a belief that fifty years after the Harper's Ferry tragedy, the time is ripe for a study of John Brown, free from bias, from the errors in taste and fact of the mere panegyrist, and from the blind prejudice of those who can see in John Brown nothing but a criminal. The pages that follow were written to detract from or champion no man or set of men, but to put forth the essential truths of history as far as ascertainable, and to judge Brown, his followers and associates in the light thereof. -- Adapted from the preface.