Talking Union
Title | Talking Union PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Stepan-Norris |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252064890 |
Members of the United Auto Workers Ford Local 600 tell about their activism as they experienced it.
Not Talking Union
Title | Not Talking Union PDF eBook |
Author | Janis Thiessen |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0773598952 |
How does one write a labour history of a people who have not been involved in the labour movement in significant numbers and, historically, have opposed union membership? While North American Mennonites have traditionally been associated with rural life, in light of the adjustments demanded by post-1945 urbanization and industrialization, they in fact became very involved in the workforce at a time of important labour foment. Drawing on over a hundred interviews, Janis Thiessen explores Mennonite responses to labour movements such as Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, as well as Mennonite involvement in conscientious objection to unions. This innovative study of the Mennonites - a people at once united by an ethnic and religious identity, yet also shaped by differences in geography, immigration histories, denomination, and class position - provides insights into how and why they have resisted involvement in organized labour. Not Talking Union adds a unique perspective to the history of labour, exploring how people negotiate tensions between their commitments to faith and conscience and the demands of their employment. Not Talking Union breaks new methodological ground in its close analysis of the oral narratives of North American Mennonites. Reflecting on both oral and archival sources, Thiessen shows why Mennonite labour history matters, and reveals the role of power and inequality in that history.
Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board
Title | Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Labor Relations Board |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1348 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Labor laws and legislation |
ISBN |
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company V. National Labor Relations Board
Title | R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company V. National Labor Relations Board PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1118 |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
National Labor Relations Board V. Aintree Corporation
Title | National Labor Relations Board V. Aintree Corporation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1943 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The English-speaking World
Title | The English-speaking World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1300 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Talking to Strangers
Title | Talking to Strangers PDF eBook |
Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2019-09-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0316535621 |
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.