Writing from a working-class perspective, Janet Zandy links labor and art to challenge the unnamed class biases in systems of art curation, categorization and expertise. Zandy orchestrates the voices of nine artists - Kaethe Kollwitz and Elizabeth Catlett, Ruth Asawa and Marilyn Anderson, Milton Rogovin and Jens S. Jensen, Mark Rogovin and ......
Writing from a working-class perspective, Janet Zandy links labor and art to challenge the unnamed class biases in systems of art curation, categorization and expertise. Zandy orchestrates the voices of nine artists - Kaethe Kollwitz and Elizabeth Catlett, Ruth Asawa and Marilyn Anderson, Milton Rogovin and Jens S. Jensen, Mark Rogovin and ......
Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison
States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor-and why this process took such a convoluted path. Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was ......
Japan's Foreign Labor Politics in Regional Comparison
States of Admission presents the first comprehensive account of how Japan opened to foreign labor-and why this process took such a convoluted path. Japan's labor migration policy resists easy explanation. Although Japan pioneered foreign labor admission in East Asia in the early 1990s, it relied on side-door channels for select migrants. It was ......
From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined ......
From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American culture There are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined ......
The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in America's Hometown, 1890-1970
In Shoe Workers in Hannibal, Missouri, Gregg Andrews examines the history of factory laborers in a celebrated Mississippi River town. In the late 1890s, shoe manufacturing transformed Mark Twain's boyhood home from a steamboat village to a factory town. By the mid-1920s, the St. Louis-based International Shoe Company, the world's largest shoe ......
Founded in 1919, the Federated Press (FP) collected, compiled, and distributed news to America's labor and radical newspapers. Victoria M. Grieve focuses on the lives and work of four correspondents and staffers - Jessie Lloyd, Julia Ruuttila, Virginia Gardner, and Miriam Kolkin - to examine the impact of women at the FP and across the labor ......
Founded in 1919, the Federated Press (FP) collected, compiled, and distributed news to America's labor and radical newspapers. Victoria M. Grieve focuses on the lives and work of four correspondents and staffers - Jessie Lloyd, Julia Ruuttila, Virginia Gardner, and Miriam Kolkin - to examine the impact of women at the FP and across the labor ......
