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The French Silk Weavers' Insurrections in Lyon in 1831 and 1834.
Foucault-Mohammed, Clara – Labour Education, 1989
Discusses the history of silk production from its beginnings in China. Concentrates on the development of the industry in Lyon, France, and the uprising of silk weavers in 1831 and 1834. (JOW)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Grievance Procedures, History
The "Radical Alien" and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Bennett, Paul W. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1987
Uses primary source documents to help students analyze the Winnipeg labor revolt of 1919. Includes a newspaper advertisement and photo from the strike. (JDH)
Descriptors: History Instruction, Labor Problems, North American History, Primary Sources
After the Camps: Seabrook Farms, New Jersey, and the Resettlement of Japanese Americans, 1944-47.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Sawada, Mitziko – Amerasia Journal, 1987
Seabrook Farms was most prosperous during World War II when Japanese Americans were recruited from concentration camps to alleviate its labor shortage. As the camps closed, former detainees became full-time workers in spite of some exploitation. It was a place for these families to live and work before returning to the West Coast. (VM)
Descriptors: Farm Labor, Japanese Americans, Labor Problems, Labor Supply
A Perspective on Our History.
Swanson, Gordon I. – Vocational Education Journal, 1986
Discusses the history of the American Vocational Association in terms of its relationship to organized labor as both promoted the rights and welfare of the working class. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Labor Problems, Professional Associations
The Development of Trade Unionism.
Parker, Ronald W. – Training Officer, 1979
Traces the growth and evolution of the British labor union movement, troubles between the national officials and the local shop stewards, class differences and conflict between the artisans and laborers, violence between unions, and eventual transition to peaceful constitutionalism. (MF)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Conflict, Craft Workers, Foreign Countries
A Socio-Historical Analysis of the Labor Revolt of 1878 in the Danish West Indies.
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Marsh, Clifton E. – Phylon, 1981
An examination of socioeconomic conditions and political status of the Black community in the Virgin Islands after emancipation supports the contention that the "Fireburn" uprising of 1878 was not a riot but a labor revolt. The revolt resulted in flexible labor contracts, land-buying terms, and unions for working-class Blacks. (ML)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Economic Factors, Ethnic Groups, Farm Labor
Split Labor Markets and Black-White Relations, 1865-1920.
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Marks, Carole – Phylon, 1981
This paper modifies Edna Bonacich's theory of class conflict which cites the split labor market during the period of 1920-30 as the cause of racial antagonisms. The author states that Bonacich neglected the role of employers and technological advance in the creation of the split labor market. (ML)
Descriptors: Conflict, Economic Factors, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Market
The Role of Freedmen in the Post Bellum Cotton Economy.
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Wynne, Lewis N. – Phylon, 1981
Following the removal of the Freedman's Bureau and failure of labor recruitment efforts targeted to Chinese and European immigrants, the practices of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the hiring of convict labor replaced slave labor in the South's postbellum agricultural economy. Lack of minimal economic power among freed Blacks resulted in slave…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Civil Rights, Economic Change