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This two-volume study of progressive education covers the period
between 1750 and 1967. The work shows educational innovations to be
not just a 1990s phenomenon but one with historical roots going
back to the 18th century.;The first volume traces the many currents
of thought on education during the late 18th and early 19th
centuries. Examining the state of education in the aftermath of the
Industrial Revolution, the volume takes into account the social and
economic changes of the 19th century and looks at the role of the
school as agent of historical reform. As well as documenting the
writings of theorists, teachers, social reformers, philanthropists
and continental educational thinkers, the study deals with the
contributions made by a number of British pioneers and innovative
educational institutions which hitherto had not received full
recognition.;Volume two reviews three waves of progressive schools,
from pre-World War I up to the outbreak of World War II, before
following the changing position of the progressive schools up to
1967. Although primarily concerned with England, the author
discusses some progressive international movements, including key
European developments .
Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos
were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural
fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves
confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated
workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other
forms of ethnic persecution. In time, though, Filipino workers
formed political organizations and affiliated with labor unions to
represent their interests and to advance their struggles for class,
race, and gender-based social justice. Union by Law analyzes the
broader social and legal history of Filipino American workers'
rights-based struggles, culminating in the devastating landmark
Supreme Court ruling, Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989).
Organized chronologically, the book begins with the US invasion of
the Philippines and the imposition of colonial rule at the dawn of
the twentieth century. The narrative then follows the migration of
Filipino workers to the United States, where they mobilized for
many decades within and against the injustices of American racial
capitalist empire that the Wards Cove majority willfully ignored in
rejecting their longstanding claims. This racial innocence in turn
rationalized judicial reconstruction of official civil rights law
in ways that significantly increased the obstacles for all workers
seeking remedies for institutionalized racism and sexism. A
reclamation of a long legacy of racial capitalist domination over
Filipinos and other low-wage or unpaid migrant workers, Union by
Law also tells a story of noble aspirational struggles for human
rights over several generations and of the many ways that law was
mobilized both to enforce and to challenge race, class, and gender
hierarchy at work.
Starting in the early 1900s, many thousands of native Filipinos
were conscripted as laborers in American West Coast agricultural
fields and Alaska salmon canneries. There, they found themselves
confined to exploitative low-wage jobs in racially segregated
workplaces as well as subjected to vigilante violence and other
forms of ethnic persecution. In time, though, Filipino workers
formed political organizations and affiliated with labor unions to
represent their interests and to advance their struggles for class,
race, and gender-based social justice. Union by Law analyzes the
broader social and legal history of Filipino American workers'
rights-based struggles, culminating in the devastating landmark
Supreme Court ruling, Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio (1989).
Organized chronologically, the book begins with the US invasion of
the Philippines and the imposition of colonial rule at the dawn of
the twentieth century. The narrative then follows the migration of
Filipino workers to the United States, where they mobilized for
many decades within and against the injustices of American racial
capitalist empire that the Wards Cove majority willfully ignored in
rejecting their longstanding claims. This racial innocence in turn
rationalized judicial reconstruction of official civil rights law
in ways that significantly increased the obstacles for all workers
seeking remedies for institutionalized racism and sexism. A
reclamation of a long legacy of racial capitalist domination over
Filipinos and other low-wage or unpaid migrant workers, Union by
Law also tells a story of noble aspirational struggles for human
rights over several generations and of the many ways that law was
mobilized both to enforce and to challenge race, class, and gender
hierarchy at work.
What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay
between women and men? In "Rights at Work," Michael W. McCann
explains how wage discrimination battles have raised public legal
consciousness and helped reform activists mobilize working women in
the pay equity movement over the past two decades.
"Rights at Work" explores the political strategies in more than a
dozen pay equity struggles since the late 1970s, including battles
of state employees in Washington and Connecticut, as well as city
employees in San Jose and Los Angeles. Relying on interviews with
over 140 union and feminist activists, McCann shows that, even when
the courts failed to correct wage discrimination, litigation and
other forms of legal advocacy provided reformers with the legal
discourse2;the understanding of legal rights and their
constraints2;for defining and advancing their cause.
"Rights at Work" offers new insight into the relation between law
and social change2;the ways in which grass roots social movements
work within legal rights traditions to promote progressive reform.
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Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
Brian W McCann; Illustrated by Creative Azim; Zoe Browning
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R276
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.
1919. The relationship of natural food to health and life. The
author has personal experience of the food industry and deplores
the processing involved in the making of "depraved foods." In this
revised and enlarged edition, the author has incorporated a
schedule of ideal food combinations for children over the age of
three years. He holds that the true conditions now so completely
hidden from the public view and so rarely referred to in the public
press must be exposed in order that the public, guided by the
dictates of common sense and an adequate realization of economic
facts concerning the food supply of America, may successfully wage
war against abuses which threaten the very foundations of national
health and prosperity.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
The relationship of natural food to health and life. The author has
personal experience of the food industry and deplores the
processing involved in the making of "depraved foods." In this
revised and enlarged edition, the author has incorporated a
schedule of ideal food combinations for children over the age of
three years. He holds that the true conditions now so completely
hidden from the public view and so rarely referred to in the public
press must be exposed in order that the public, guided by the
dictates of common sense and an adequate realization of economic
facts concerning the food supply of America, may successfully wage
war against abuses which threaten the very foundations of national
health and prosperity.
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