Sentences with phrase «labor history»

Delving into the economic and labor history of the sugar industry, the sculpture drew on matters of race, gender, power and subjugation, standard themes of Walker's practice that are familiar to her blue - chip art world audience, but not so readily understood by the general public.

The inaugural exhibition, Women's Work / Men's Work: Labor and Gender in America, was organized with Professor Alex Lichenstein, Department of History, FIU, who will teach a course on twentieth - century U.S. labor history in the Spring semester of 2010.

After twelve years of tough negotiations, the BSCP won a collective bargaining agreement with the Pullman company, a major milestone in U.S. labor history.

As such, I would encourage all parents to find out just what their school plans for Labor History Month.

They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes (such as photograms and photomontages), to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera, to political and documentary engagements with labor history and globalization in the 1980s and 1990s, to forms of archival and historical reconstitution made since 2000.

«As past labor history would indicate when a union negotiates a retirement benefit they end up giving up a pay raise or another fiscal benefit with the county,» Itjen said in a statement.

And then there was the Chicago school strike, which will be legend, even if textbook publishers ignore labor history.

They may be able to brag that they have gotten higher salaries and more perks for teachers, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they will not be posting labor history lessons with the following information:

Also with Josh Freeman on Lessons from New York Labor History; Dave Newman of NYCOSH on an Organizing Approach to Health and Safety; Labor law expert Robert Schwartz on Just Cause: How to Win Discipline Cases; and a discussion of After Bloomberg: A Union Agenda for New York City.

Sponsored by the California Federation of Teachers, this bill recognized the first week of April as «Labor History Week» and authorized public school districts to «commemorate that week with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role that the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States.»

Coyne said teachers might also incorporate recent events into lessons about Wisconsin labor history.

Under the gray skies of a cold January afternoon in Franklinton, a new chapter was started in the book of Columbus labor history.

The ILGWU is instrumental in American labor history and yet we barely know it.

The library's Kheel Center features labor history materials.

At the end of 2012, labor's «week» morphed into «Labor History Month» (or as I referred to it at the time, «The Not So Merry Month of May»).

The march follows the route of thousands of coal miners in what became the historic Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 — the largest class warfare armed confrontation in U.S. labor history, when miners battled police and strikebreakers backed by the coal operators for five days seeking to unionize the coalfields, until the President ordered the U.S. Army to put down the insurrection.

Marrin presents an exemplary, accessible overview of labor history in this detailed account of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in which 146 workers died — most of them immigrant women between the ages of 14 and 23.

Courses cover labor studies, labor history, arbitration, human resources management and organizing.

A spokesman for the Fanjul family defended both the company's labor history — asserting conditions at its estates in the Caribbean are first rate, and that workers enjoy the benefit of unions — and its relationship with the state senator.

Then, since he knows my labor history, we headed to a park to walk.

In examining the Bisbee deportation of 1917 — a shameful chapter in America's labor history, when 1,300 striking miners were forced out of the town under threat of violence — he's found a subject that perfect matches his larger philosophical concerns and aesthetic tendencies.

Since then, the GNHLHA has spent the last two years trying to get the labor history curriculum downloaded onto the Connecticut State Department of Education social studies division website.

A teacher educator introduces her students to labor history and makes a case for its centrality to U.S. history.

The studio also included an incredible library of books and historical documents chronicling the Homestead Strike, as well as histories of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Andrew Carnegie, art history, and labor history.

The labor history of my own family grounds my work.

They range from postwar experiments with darkroom processes, such as photograms and photomontages; to 1970s feminist performances conceived for the camera; to political and documentary engagements with themes of labor history and globalization in the 1980s; to post-appropriative forms of archival and historical reconstitution since 2000.