Author: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes. Regular ConventionPublisher:
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Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages :
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Proceedings of the ... Regular and ... Triennial Convention of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes
Author: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employes. Regular ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Proceedings of the Conventions at Charleston and Baltimore
Author: Democratic Party. National Convention, Charleston and Baltimore, 1860Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Proceedings of the ... Summer Meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf
Author: American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the DeafPublisher:
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Category : Deaf
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Rota V. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks
Author: Fletcher V. Dunlop
Author: Becoming a Mighty Voice
Author: Daniel CornfieldPublisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610441397
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
American labor unions resemble private representative democracies, complete with formally constituted conventions and officer election procedures. Like other democratic institutions, unions have repeatedly experienced highly charged conflicts over the integration of ethnic minorities and women into leadership positions. In Becoming a Mighty Voice, Daniel B. Cornfield traces the 55-year history of the United Furniture Workers of America (UFWA), describing the emergence of new social groups into union leadership and the conditions that encouraged or inhibited those changes. This vivid case history explores leadership change during eras of union growth, stability, and decline, not simply during isolated episodes of factionalism. Cornfield demonstrates that despite the strong forces perpetuating existing union hierarchies, leadership turnover is just as likely as leadership stagnation. He also shows that factors external to the union may influence leadership change; periods of turnover in the UFWA leadership reflected employer efforts to find cheap, non-union labor, as well as union efforts to unionize workers. When unions are threatened by intensified conflict with employers and when entrenched high status groups within the union are obliged to recruit members of lower socioeconomic status, then new social groups are likely to be integrated into union leadership. Becoming a Mighty Voice develops a theory of leadership change that will be of interest to many engaged in the labor, civil rights, and women's movements as well as to sociologists or historians of work, gender, and race, and to students of political and organizational behavior.
The Foundations of Collective Action
Author: Brian Jay KroegerCurrent Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
We Will Be Heard
Author: Jo FreemanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 146164688X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In We Will Be Heard, noted political scientist Jo Freeman chronicles the struggles of women in the United States for political power. Most of their stories are little-known, but Freeman's compelling portrait of women working for change reminds us that women have never been silent in the political affairs of the nation. From J. Ellen Foster's address to the 1892 Republican Convention to Nancy Pelosi's 2007 election as the first female Speaker of the House, women have worked to influence politics at every level. Well before most could vote, women campaigned for candidates and lobbied to shape public policy. Men welcomed their work, but not their ideas. Even with equal suffrage women faced many barriers to full political participation. The fifteen case studies of women's struggles for political influence in this book provide the historical context for today's political events. Starting with an overview of when and why political women have been studied, the three sections of the book look at different ways in whi