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The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy
and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its
stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and
Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on
nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working
people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the
contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret
worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two moves from
National Park sites to murals to examine the writing and visual
representation of labor history. Together, the essayists explore
how place-based labor history initiatives promote understanding of
past struggles, create awareness of present challenges, and support
efforts to build power, expand democracy, and achieve justice for
working people. A wide-ranging blueprint for change, Where Are the
Workers? shows how working-class perspectives can expand our
historical memory and inform and inspire contemporary activism.
Contributors: Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor
Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan
Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linne, Erik Loomis, Tom
MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan,
Karen Sieber, and Katrina Windon
'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book
that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental
protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable
vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment
shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting
the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of
the people. It makes for a rich and exhilarating mixture.-Nigel
Crisp, Permanent Secretary, U.K. Department of Health, and Chief
Executive, National Health Service (2000-2006), Author, Turning the
World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century
(Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2010)
"At the Point of Production", a compilation of contributions to
"New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
Policy", locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad
political economy. It argues that without a deep understanding of
the social/political/economic context of particular industries or
workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and
control of industrial hazards. The contributors report on a series
of case studies, all of which used the 'point of production'
framework to investigate particular problems or industries.The
focus of the first section is on globalization, the impact of
privatization on the health and safety of workers and communities
in Brazil and Mexico. The next section addresses environmental
issues: the unintended effects of environmental regulation on
workers, the situation of hazardous waste workers and emergency
responders, the implementation of toxics use reduction, and the
role of workers in pollution prevention. In the third section the
contributors explore the intersection of labor relations with
gender relations at the point of production. A final chapter deals
with some of the practical issues involved in conducting
occupational health research in the contested terrain of the
workplace.
Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities
and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad
activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a
transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in
the conversations that frame and guide both the internal
restructuring process and the off-campus interactions? The
perspective of this book, based on research and projects in the
field, is that long-term, sustainable social and economic
development requires strategies geared to the scientific,
technical, cultural, and environmental aspects of development. Much
of the work in this volume challenges traditional university
practices. Universities tend to reproduce a culture that rejects
direct interaction across traditional academic department
boundaries and beyond the campus. Yet, interdisciplinary work is
important because it more aptly mirrors what is taking place in the
regional economy as firms collaborate across manufacturing
boundaries and community organizations and neighbourhood groups
work to solve common problems. What is distinctive within the range
of scholarship and practice in this volume is the inclination on
the part of increasing numbers of professors on more and more
campuses to collaborate across disciplinary lines. Universities
must persist in the advancement of cross-community, cross-firm, and
cross-institutional learning. The learning dynamics and knowledge
diffusion generated by collaborative activities and new approaches
to teaching can invigorate all phases of learning at the
university. In this way, the university advances its activities
beyond an indiscriminate approach to development, maximizes the use
of its resources, and performs an integrative and innovative role
in the cultivation of equitable and sustainable regions. The
chapters in this book illustrate the strikingly different and
exciting ways in which universities pursue education for
sustainability.
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14
years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills
and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on
Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This
book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling
offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a
united working class can be. The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of
1912 - the Bread and Roses Strike - was a public protest by 20,000
to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a
wage cut. Backed by skillful neighborhood organizing, supported by
hundreds of acts of solidarity, and unified by a commitment to
respect every striker's nationality and language, the walkout
spread across the city's densely packed tenements. Defying the
assumptions of mill owners and conservative trade unionists alike
that largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be
organized, the women activists, as one mill boss described them,
were full of "lots of cunning and also lots of bad temper. They're
everywhere, and it's getting worse all the time." Events in
Lawrence between January 11 and March 25, 1912, changed labor
history. In this volume the authors tackle the strike story through
new lenses and dispel assumptions that the citywide walkout was a
spontaneous one led by outside agitators. They also discuss the
importance of grasping the significance of events like the 1912
strike and engaging in the process of community remembrance. This
book appeals to a wide constituency. Most directly, it is of great
relevance to historians of labor, industrialization, immigration,
and the development of cities, as well as researchers studying
social movements. The story of the Bread and Roses Strike resonates
strongly with social justice supporters, the women's movement,
advocates for children's well-being, and anti-poverty
organizations. Social studies and college-level teachers will find
it a rich resource. Graduate-level students will find inspiration
for further research. The Bread and Roses strike has excellent name
recognition and has always had a considerable international
audience.
'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book
that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental
protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable
vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment
shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting
the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of
the people. It makes for a rich and exhilarating mixture.-Nigel
Crisp, Permanent Secretary, U.K. Department of Health, and Chief
Executive, National Health Service (2000-2006), Author, Turning the
World Upside Down: The Search for Global Health in the 21st Century
(Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2010)
Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities
and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad
activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a
transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in
the conversations that frame and guide both the internal
restructuring process and the off-campus interactions? The
perspective of this book, based on research and projects in the
field, is that long-term, sustainable social and economic
development requires strategies geared to the scientific,
technical, cultural, and environmental aspects of development. Much
of the work in this volume challenges traditional university
practices. Universities tend to reproduce a culture that rejects
direct interaction across traditional academic department
boundaries and beyond the campus. Yet, interdisciplinary work is
important because it more aptly mirrors what is taking place in the
regional economy as firms collaborate across manufacturing
boundaries and community organizations and neighbourhood groups
work to solve common problems. What is distinctive within the range
of scholarship and practice in this volume is the inclination on
the part of increasing numbers of professors on more and more
campuses to collaborate across disciplinary lines. Universities
must persist in the advancement of cross-community, cross-firm, and
cross-institutional learning. The learning dynamics and knowledge
diffusion generated by collaborative activities and new approaches
to teaching can invigorate all phases of learning at the
university. In this way, the university advances its activities
beyond an indiscriminate approach to development, maximizes the use
of its resources, and performs an integrative and innovative role
in the cultivation of equitable and sustainable regions. The
chapters in this book illustrate the strikingly different and
exciting ways in which universities pursue education for
sustainability.
Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond
'green' to consider the work environment, community impacts,
consumer health, and economic viability, as well as environmental
attributes. "Beyond Child's Play" explores the concept of
sustainable product design in the context of the global doll-making
industry. To initiate this research, the author reviewed eco design
parameters and developed criteria for sustainable product design in
the doll-making industry. Using this framework, she conducted three
case studies of do I making: the American Girl doll produced in
China, the Kathe Kruse doll produced in Germany and the Q'ewar
Project doll produced in Peru. Themes emerged from this research
that have relevance beyond the doll-making industry: the value of
making a product with care; designing work for human dignity;
intention and vision for sustainability; the implications of
materials choices; and, transparency and sustainability.
Sustainable product design calls for fundamentally new thinking. By
connecting the term 'sustainable' to 'product', we raise
expectations for a radically different approach to design,
production, and consumption. This framework integrates the eco
design principles of detoxification and dematerialization with the
principle of 'humanization', to ensure that the work environment
where the product is made is safe and healthy and that local
communities benefit from production. This approach places increased
responsibility on the industrial designer and decision-makers
throughout the supply chain, including governments, corporations,
and citizens. Sustainable product design can be implemented
effectively only when systems are in place that support sustainable
production and consumption.
This study of working conditions in shoemaking in the informal
sector in Indonesia and the Philippines, along with their gender
dimensions and national and international policy implications, is
based on the author's experience in both countries during 2002,
with applied qualitative research techniques: in-depth interviews
and worksite visits. Intended audience: Occupational and
environmental health policymakers, practitioners, and researchers;
work environment specialists at international organizations;
chemical safety specialists; footwear industry representatives;
trade unions representing footwear employees.
This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal
globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital
nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African
public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS
epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against
apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work
and in the community, and a constituency of the new South African
democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in
KwaZulu-Natal, set against a historical backdrop, this book tells
the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the post-apartheid period.
"In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14
years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills
and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on
Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This
book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling
offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a
united working class can be. The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of
1912 - the Bread and Roses Strike - was a public protest by 20,000
to 25,000 immigrant workers from several countries, prompted by a
wage cut. Backed by skillful neighborhood organizing, supported by
hundreds of acts of solidarity, and unified by a commitment to
respect every striker's nationality and language, the walkout
spread across the city's densely packed tenements. Defying the
assumptions of mill owners and conservative trade unionists alike
that largely female and ethnically diverse workers could not be
organized, the women activists, as one mill boss described them,
were full of "lots of cunning and also lots of bad temper. They're
everywhere, and it's getting worse all the time." Events in
Lawrence between January 11 and March 25, 1912, changed labor
history. In this volume the authors tackle the strike story through
new lenses and dispel assumptions that the citywide walkout was a
spontaneous one led by outside agitators. They also discuss the
importance of grasping the significance of events like the 1912
strike and engaging in the process of community remembrance. This
book appeals to a wide constituency. Most directly, it is of great
relevance to historians of labor, industrialization, immigration,
and the development of cities, as well as researchers studying
social movements. The story of the Bread and Roses Strike resonates
strongly with social justice supporters, the women's movement,
advocates for children's well-being, and anti-poverty
organizations. Social studies and college-level teachers will find
it a rich resource. Graduate-level students will find inspiration
for further research. The Bread and Roses strike has excellent name
recognition and has always had a considerable international
audience.
This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal
globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital
nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African
public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS
epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against
apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work
and in the community, and a constituency of the new South African
democracy that is working on the frontlines of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic. Through case studies of three provincial hospitals in
KwaZulu-Natal, set against a historical backdrop, this book tells
the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the post-apartheid period.
During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry
emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry
responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began
to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that
industry and for firefighters responding to hazardous materials
fires. Those efforts led to a worker health and safety section in
the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. The
legislation mandated regulation of hazardous waste operations and
emergency response worker protection, and establishment of a
national health and safety training grant program - which became
the Worker Education and Training Program (WETP).Craig Slatin
provides a history of labor's success on the coattails of the
environmental movement and in the middle of a rightward shift in
American politics. He explores how the WETP established a national
worker training effort across industrial sectors, with case studies
on the health and safety training programs of two unions in the
WETP - the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers and the Laborers'
Union. Lessons can be learned from one of the last major worker
health and safety/environmental protection victories of the
1960s-1980s reform era, coming at the end of the golden age of
regulation and just before the new era of deregulation and market
dominance. Slatin's analysis calls for a critical survey of the
social and political tasks facing those concerned about worker and
community health and environmental protection in order to make a
transition toward just and sustainable production.
Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond
'green' to consider the work environment, community impacts,
consumer health, and economic viability, as well as environmental
attributes. "Beyond Child's Play" explores the concept of
sustainable product design in the context of the global doll-making
industry. To initiate this research, the author reviewed eco design
parameters and developed criteria for sustainable product design in
the doll-making industry. Using this framework, she conducted three
case studies of do I making: the American Girl doll produced in
China, the Kathe Kruse doll produced in Germany and the Q'ewar
Project doll produced in Peru. Themes emerged from this research
that have relevance beyond the doll-making industry: the value of
making a product with care; designing work for human dignity;
intention and vision for sustainability; the implications of
materials choices; and, transparency and sustainability.
Sustainable product design calls for fundamentally new thinking. By
connecting the term 'sustainable' to 'product', we raise
expectations for a radically different approach to design,
production, and consumption. This framework integrates the eco
design principles of detoxification and dematerialization with the
principle of 'humanization', to ensure that the work environment
where the product is made is safe and healthy and that local
communities benefit from production. This approach places increased
responsibility on the industrial designer and decision-makers
throughout the supply chain, including governments, corporations,
and citizens. Sustainable product design can be implemented
effectively only when systems are in place that support sustainable
production and consumption.
This book describes working conditions in informal sector
shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and
international policy implications. It provides information on
glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women
garment homeworkers in Bulacan.
"At the Point of Production", a compilation of contributions to
"New Solutions Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health
Policy", locates workers' health and safety problems in the broad
political economy. It argues that without a deep understanding of
the social/political/economic context of particular industries or
workplaces, we cannot fully grasp the process of recognition and
control of industrial hazards. The contributors report on a series
of case studies, all of which used the 'point of production'
framework to investigate particular problems or industries.The
focus of the first section is on globalization, the impact of
privatization on the health and safety of workers and communities
in Brazil and Mexico. The next section addresses environmental
issues: the unintended effects of environmental regulation on
workers, the situation of hazardous waste workers and emergency
responders, the implementation of toxics use reduction, and the
role of workers in pollution prevention. In the third section the
contributors explore the intersection of labor relations with
gender relations at the point of production. A final chapter deals
with some of the practical issues involved in conducting
occupational health research in the contested terrain of the
workplace.
On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in
ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United
Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old
American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts,
capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation
from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and
the business agent for the union representing nearly 1,200 Bosch
employees when the plant closed, interjects his personal
recollections into the story.For more than 150 years Springfield
stood at the center of a prosperous 200-mile industrial corridor
along the Connecticut River, between Bridgeport, Connecticut, and
Springfield, Vermont, populated with hundreds of machine tool and
metalworking plants and thousands of workers. This book is a
historical account of the profound economic collapse of the
Connecticut River Valley region, with a particular focus on Bosch,
its workers, and its union. The shutdown is placed in the context
of the wider region's deindustrialization. The closure marked the
watershed for large-firm metalworking and metalworking unions in
the Connecticut River Valley. The book also describes how the
United States, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the
mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine
tools to its leading importer, and how that sharp decline affected
the region's leading city, Springfield, Massachusetts, which by
2005 was in danger of bankruptcy.
This volume raises an important question: Given the fast-changing
global economy and the challenges it presents, what is the role for
the university as an institution promoting sustainable human
development? The editors begin by outlining the changes associated
with the recent wave of globalization, particularly transformations
in the relative power of institutions internationally. They analyze
the constraints universities face in industrialized and developing
countries in promoting sustainable human development. The authors
in Part I point out the need for the university to take a role in
meeting the challenges of globalization so they examine the effects
of the increased market focus of the world economy on several types
of nations - low-income (Jamaica), transitional (Slovenia),
peripheral to industrialized nations (Ireland) - and on women, a
typically disadvantaged group. Contributors to the second half of
the volume provide a variety of perspectives and concrete examples
that highlight the roles universities can play in fostering
development beneficial to communities and nations. Promising
initiatives in Malaysia and India and at a university in the United
States are discussed as well as the general lessons each offers.
Collectively, the authors suggest that, as an institution, the
university can and should play an important role in promoting
sustainable human development. Readers interested in economic
development, regional studies, globalization and community
development will find this book a unique and important
contribution.
The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy
and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its
stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and
Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on
nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working
people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the
contributors concentrate on ways to collect and interpret
worker-oriented history for public consumption. Part Two moves from
National Park sites to murals to examine the writing and visual
representation of labor history. Together, the essayists explore
how place-based labor history initiatives promote understanding of
past struggles, create awareness of present challenges, and support
efforts to build power, expand democracy, and achieve justice for
working people. A wide-ranging blueprint for change, Where Are the
Workers? shows how working-class perspectives can expand our
historical memory and inform and inspire contemporary activism.
Contributors: Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor
Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan
Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linne, Erik Loomis, Tom
MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan,
Karen Sieber, and Katrina Windon
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