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Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,
employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to
control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out
of workplaces. In the face of worker resistance, employers and
their allies collaborated to use a variety of extralegal repressive
techniques, including whippings, kidnappings, drive-out campaigns,
incarcerations, arsons, hangings, and shootings, as well as less
overtly illegal tactics such as shutting down meetings, barring
speakers from lecturing through blacklists, and book burning. This
book draws together the groups engaged in this kind of violence,
reimagining the original Ku Klux Klan, various Law and Order
Leagues, Stockgrowers' organizations, and Citizens' Alliances as
employers' associations driven by unambiguous economic and
managerial interests. Though usually discussed separately, all of
these groups used similar language to tar their lower-class
challengers-former slaves, rustlers, homesteaders of modest means,
populists, political radicals, and striking workers-as menacing
villains and deployed comparable tactics to suppress them. And
perhaps most notably, spokespersons for these respective
organizations justified their actions by insisting that they were
committed to upholding "law and order." Ultimately, this book
suggests that the birth of law and order politics as we know it can
be found in nineteenth-century campaigns of organized terror
against an assortment of ordinary people across racial lines
conducted by Klansmen, lawmen, vigilantes, and union busters.
Workers and Democracy is a study of worker activism and labor
unions in the eight years between the recognition of Indonesian
sovereignty by the Netherlands at the end of December 1949 and the
nationalization of Dutch assets in December 1957. It contributes to
a re-evaluation of the era of liberal parliamentary democracy in
Indonesia. The focus is on the agency of workers and the
structures, strategies and industrial campaigns of unions in the
context of intense ideological conflict, competing union
federations, the opposition of employers to collective action, and
the efforts by the Indonesian state to manage industrial conflict.
The imposition of martial law in March 1957 was the deathblow to
parliamentary democracy and to the freedom of workers and unions to
engage in collective action. It was not until Suharto's 'New Order'
regime collapsed in 1998 that Indonesian workers regained the
freedom of association and the right to engage in collective
action.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1950.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1953.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1955.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1931.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1959.
While the concept of teleworking has existed for many years, the
COVID-19 pandemic drastically altered the operations of businesses
and industries around the world. Through these shifts, there have
been many challenges of adapting employees, business operations,
productivity levels, technology, and more to meet this increased
demand in teleworking. Through these challenges, not only were
businesses forced to adapt, but a new wave of telework and its
approach have been fostered. Analyzing Telework, Trustworthiness,
and Performance Using Leader-Member Exchange: COVID-19 Perspective
focuses on evaluating the response to the pandemic and how to
continually improve teleworking and organizations in their
utilization of remote work. This book provides multifaceted
perspectives focused on all parties involved in these issues, from
employees to CEOs. Covering topics such as employee risk, telework
resistance, and performance, this book is an essential resource for
managers, CEOs, business leaders, students of higher education,
professors, researchers, and academicians.
When Charlotte Perkins Gilman's first nonfiction book, Women and
Economics, was published exactly a century ago, in 1898, she was
immediately hailed as the leading intellectual in the women's
movement. Her ideas were widely circulated and discussed; she was
in great demand on the lecture circuit, and her intellectual circle
included some of the most prominent thinkers of the age. Yet by the
mid-1960s she was nearly forgotten, and Women and Economics was
long out of print. Revived here with new introduction, Gilman's
pivotal work remains a benchmark feminist text that anticipates
many of the issues and thinkers of 1960s and resonates deeply with
today's continuing debate about gender difference and inequality.
Gilman's ideas represent an integration of socialist thought and
Darwinian theory and provide a welcome disruption of the nearly
all-male canon of American economic and social thought. She
stresses the connection between work and home and between public
and private life; anticipates the 1960s debate about wages for
housework; calls for extensive childcare facilities and parental
leave policies; and argues for new housing arrangements with
communal kitchens and hired cooks. She contends that women's entry
into the public arena and the reforms of the family would be a
win-win situation for both women and men as the public sphere would
no longer be deprived of women's particular abilities, and men
would be able to enlarge the possibilities to experience and
express the emotional sustenance of family life. The thorough and
stimulating introduction by Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson provides
substantial information about Gilman's life, personality, and
background. It frames her impact on feminism since the Sixties and
establishes her crucial role in the emergence of feminist and
social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1998.
Originally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room
features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head
waiters and front-of-house restaurant staff, giving insight into
the traditions and personalities that shaped these culinary
institutions. Maccannon, himself an African American and a former
head waiter, also offers a brief portrait of the Head and Second
Waiters' National Benefit Association (a union for the industry and
for African American hotel workers). Though the HSWNBA was formed
in Chicago and held conventions there, many of the waiters profiled
in this book hail from southern restaurants. Maccannon published
Commanders to increase the visibility and stature of Black waiters;
to assure employers that they could count on members of the HSWNBA
to thoroughly know their business; to attest to their commitment to
be dependable workers; and to showcase model African American
manhood. In the vein of Booker T. Washington, Commanders proclaimed
to young waiters that they could achieve success if they educated
themselves, worked hard, and joined an association like the HSWNBA.
In Commanders they could see head waiters, at the pinnacle of the
profession, who had started out at the bottom and worked their way
to the top, overcoming a variety of challenges along the way.
Organizational trauma theory endeavors to examine the psychological
and physical effects of trauma on individuals and groups within an
organization. Individual trauma, the individual mental and
emotional disruptions that affect the well-being of self, often
contributes to organizational trauma. Or sometimes, the disruptions
are external and caused by societal, economic, or political
changes. Recent traumatic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and
racial tensions stemming from social injustices present even
greater challenges for organizations as leaders seek to facilitate
healing, restoration, and renewal. Organizational trauma is
currently playing out in our organizations, and organizational
scholars, leaders, and managers are looking for ways to mitigate
this trauma without having explicit knowledge or understanding of
how to deal with it. Despite the increasing need to better
understand organizational trauma and how to address it, this body
of research has not played a prominent role in mainstream
organization and management theory. Role of Leadership in
Facilitating Healing and Renewal in Times of Organizational Trauma
and Change examines the importance of dealing with trauma in
organizations and related topics of interest. The chapters
highlight global perspectives and present new and significant
information and observations about organizational trauma and offer
insights derived from a solidly and sufficiently broad knowledge
base of theory, research, and practice. This book will also grant a
basis of understanding trauma, its antecedents and outcomes, as
well as how it can be mitigated and will provide information and
insights regarding organizational trauma and how it interacts with
and influences other organizational phenomena. This book is ideally
intended for managers, human resources officers, academicians,
practitioners, executives, professionals, researchers, and students
interested in examining the ways in which organizational trauma is
impacting the workplace.
By necessity, understanding of leadership has been based on who
used to be business leaders, namely men. In the last few years,
Asian women have been making their mark in corporate America.
Although Asian women have become part of the American workforce,
and some have achieved spectacular success, there is little
discussion about them. Many of these women could be first general
immigrants, still balancing the strong pull of two cultures. Even
for second or third generation immigrants, Asian cultures can often
exert immense pressures. Thus, the achievement of these women
deserves far more attention than it has received, and comprehensive
research on these advances should be presented. Asian Women in
Corporate America: Emerging Research and Opportunities traces the
history of Asian women's presence as executives of major American
corporations, presents biographical sketches of a select few, draws
upon factors (individual, corporate, and societal) that influenced
their journeys, and links to past theories on business leadership.
The chapters serve to bring attention to a minority group in
leadership and extricates factors that helped in the success of
Asian American women in these prominent roles. While highlighting
topics such as existing leadership theories, gender and ethnicity
in leadership, models of theories regarding Asian women, and their
involvement in major corporations, this book is a valuable
reference tool for managers, executives, researchers,
practitioners, academicians, and students working in fields that
include women's studies/gender studies, business and management,
human resources management, management science, and leadership.
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country,
the American Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19
infections skyrocketed among workers in meatpacking plants-and
Americans feared for their meat supply. But the Midwest is not
simply the place where animals are fed corn and then butchered.
Native midwesterner Kristy Nabhan-Warren spent years interviewing
Iowans who work in the meatpacking industry, both native-born
residents and recent migrants from Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
In Meatpacking America, she digs deep below the stereotype and
reveals the grit and grace of a heartland that is a major global
hub of migration and food production-and also, it turns out, of
religion. Across the flatlands, Protestants, Catholics, and Muslims
share space every day as worshippers, employees, and employers. On
the bloody floors of meatpacking plants, in bustling places of
worship, and in modest family homes, longtime and newly arrived
Iowans spoke to Nabhan-Warren about their passion for religious
faith and desire to work hard for their families. Their stories
expose how faith-based aspirations for mutual understanding blend
uneasily with rampant economic exploitation and racial biases.
Still, these new and old midwesterners say that a mutual language
of faith and morals brings them together more than any of them
would have ever expected.
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