Timothy J. Minchin, John David Smith

Forging a Common Bond: Labor and Environmental Activism During the Basf Lockout (New Perspectives on the History of the South)


Timothy J. Minchin studies one of the longest labor disputes in American history, a lockout involving the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' International Union and BASF, a German-based chemical manufacturer. The dispute ran from 1984 to 1989 at the ...


Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad

Nameless Towns : Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942


Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company ...

Yukio Mishima, Hiro Sato, Frank Gibney, Hiroaki Sato

Silk and Insight (Studies of the Pacific Basin Institute)


A labor strike in a Japanese silk factory may not seem like a promising premise for a novel, but Yukio Mishima manages to turn an historical event into a fictional exploration of Japan's old paternalistic system of labor management. The strike ...

Michael Round

Grounded: Reagan and the Patco Crash (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor)


This book analyses the rhetorical background and strategies of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) and those of Ronald Reagan in reference to the 1981 strike. Was firing 11,000 federal employees the only option, or the ...


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