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Journal articles on the topic "Labor unions – Organizing – History"

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Clark, Paul F. "Organizing the Organizers: Professional Staff Unionism in the American Labor Movement." ILR Review 42, no. 4 (1989): 584–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001979398904200408.

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This study summarizes the history of bargaining units formed to represent professional employees of American unions and presents the results of a 1987–88 survey of officers of 40 such professional staff unions. These special unions, which date to the early 1950s, resemble conventional unions in the bargaining issues that are most important to them (job security and salaries), as well as in their relationships with management (in this case, union leaders), which range from amicable to antagonistic. They differ sharply, however, in their infrequent use of strikes. Professional staff unionism is
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Eldridge, Sarah Vandegrift. "Mothers’ Labor: Organizing and Parenting in Neoliberal Academia." Feminist German Studies 40, no. 1 (2024): 80–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2024.a933691.

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Abstract: In this article I reflect on my experiences in my university’s labor union, United Campus Workers (UCW), both before and after I became a parent. Labor unions—especially wall-to-wall unions like UCW—are an important site of solidarity and resistance against the neoliberal policies of university administrations. UCW, a union without collective bargaining in a state hostile to labor, has won important fights for better working conditions. This work takes time, however, and a long history of cultural depictions insists that political activism and parenting, particularly mothering, are o
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Armbruster-Sandoval, Ralph. "Globalization and Transnational Labor Organizing." Social Science History 27, no. 4 (2003): 551–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012682.

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The proliferation of garment industry sweatshops over the past 20 years has generated numerous cross-border (transnational) organizing campaigns involving U.S., Mexican, and Central American labor unions and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). This article examines one such campaign that took place at the Honduran maquiladora factory known as Kimi. The Kimi workers (along with their transnational allies) struggled for six years before they were legally recognized as a union, and they negotiated one of the few collective bargaining agreements in the entire Central American region. The factory
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Zackin, Emily. "“To Change the Fundamental Law of the State”: Protective Labor Provisions in U.S. Constitutions." Studies in American Political Development 24, no. 1 (2010): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x09990083.

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As the United States industrialized, its state constitutions began to include protections for laborers. In this article, I describe the origins of these constitutional provisions and ask why labor organizations and other reformers pursued their inclusion in state constitutions. I argue that they saw state constitutions as a vehicle to prompt reluctant legislatures to pass protective statutes, to entrench existing protections against future legislatures, to safeguard labor legislation from constitutional challenges in state courts, and to facilitate further union organizing. Labor activism in t
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Wanzo, Rebecca. "Sentimental Solidarities." Film Quarterly 75, no. 2 (2021): 89–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.2.89.

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Film Quarterly columnist Rebecca Wanzo surveys the history of fictional treatments of labor in US television and film and examines the frequently overlooked role played by sentimentality in media representations of labor and union organizing. Noting that sentimentality has been criticized for its deployment of suffering bodies as “other” objects for voyeuristic tears as well as for sometimes collapsing difference in an effort to construct empathy, Wanzo observes that documentary has often been a more welcoming space for the telling of sympathetic narratives about unions than Hollywood fiction
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Schirmer, Eleni. "“Sterilizing and Fertilizing the Plant at the Same Time”: The Class Formation of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association." History of Education Quarterly 63, no. 3 (2023): 399–424. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2023.20.

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AbstractThis article analyzes class formation of the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA). In 2011, Wisconsin curtailed public-sector union collective bargaining, causing Wisconsin unions’ membership and political power to plummet. This article puts the 2011 collapse into historical perspective, by considering the development of Milwaukee teachers’ labor organizing over the course of the twentieth century. In part I, I chronicle the formation of the MTEA, including its early contest with the Milwaukee Teachers Union (MTU) and the gendered fault lines of the teachers’ collective vis
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Friedman, Gerald. "The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880–1953." Journal of Economic History 60, no. 2 (2000): 384–413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700025146.

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Southern unions were the weak link in the American labor movement, organizing a smaller share of the labor force than did unions in the northern states or in Europe. Structural conditions, including a racially divided rural population, obstructed southern unionization. The South's distinctive political system also blocked unionization. A strict racial code compelling whites to support the Democratic Party and the disfranchisement of southern blacks and many working-class whites combined to create a one-party political system that allowed southern politicians to ignore labor's demands. Unconstr
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Fitzsimmons, Tracy, and Mark Anner. "Civil Society in a Postwar Period: Labor in the Salvadoran Democratic Transition." Latin American Research Review 34, no. 3 (1999): 103–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100039388.

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AbstractThis research note seeks to offer some resolution to the theoretical disagreements over how democratization affects civil society, specifically in a transition toward democracy that occurs through pacted settlements of an armed internal conflict. Using a comparative study over time of the labor movement in El Salvador, the authors demonstrate that while unions of the political center and left have weakened since the signing of the Salvadoran Peace Accords, independent labor groups show higher levels of organizing and right-leaning unions have maintained nearly constant levels of organi
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Ji, Minsun. "With or without class: Resolving Marx’s Janus-faced interpretation of worker-owned cooperatives." Capital & Class 44, no. 3 (2019): 345–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309816819852757.

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To shed light on polarized perspectives regarding the virtues or downfalls of worker cooperatives among variants of Marxists, this article focuses on Marx’s own Janus-faced analysis of worker cooperatives. Marx had great faith in the radical potential of worker cooperatives, properly organized and politically oriented, but he also was greatly critical of the tendency of cooperatives to shrink their political horizons and become isolated from broader labor movements. Although thinkers in the Marxist tradition criticize worker cooperatives when they operate as isolated circles of ‘collective cap
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McFarland, Stephen. "Putting Workers on the Map: Towards a Labour Cartography." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization 58, no. 1 (2023): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cart-2022-0019.

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Labour cartography is a useful frame for cartographic research. The project of labour cartography involves three main areas of study. First, recovery of an archive of maps created by workers and labour unions, a history of cartography from below. Second, mapping and spatial analysis that renders visible historical patterns of work, organizing, and working-class community life. Third, research into applications of GIS by contemporary labour unions and workers’ advocacy organizations, with an eye to developing more widespread, sophisticated, and democratic uses of maps and spatial analysis in or
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Labor unions – Organizing – History"

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Wisnor, Ryan Thomas. "Workers of the Word Unite!: The Powell's Books Union Organizing Campaign, 1998-2001." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4162.

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The labor movement's groundswell in the 1990s accompanied a period of intense competition and conglomeration within the retail book sector. Unexpectedly, the intersection of these two trends produced two dozen union drives across the country between 1996 and 2004 at large retail bookstores, including Borders and Barnes & Noble. Historians have yet to fully examine these retail organizing contests or recount their contributions to the labor movement and its history, including booksellers' pioneering use of the internet as an organizing tool. This thesis focuses on the aspirations, tactics, and
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Wisnor, Ryan Thomas. "Workers of the Word Unite!| The Powell's Books Union Organizing Campaign, 1998-2001." Thesis, Portland State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10636951.

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<p> The labor movement&rsquo;s groundswell in the 1990s accompanied a period of intense competition and conglomeration within the retail book sector. Unexpectedly, the intersection of these two trends produced two dozen union drives across the country between 1996 and 2004 at large retail bookstores, including Borders and Barnes &amp; Noble. Historians have yet to fully examine these retail organizing contests or recount their contributions to the labor movement and its history, including booksellers&rsquo; pioneering use of the internet as an organizing tool. This thesis focuses on the aspira
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Wells, Jennifer. "The Black Freedom Struggle and Civil Rights Labor Organizing in the Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina Tobacco Industry." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4790.

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This thesis examines labor organizing in the U.S. South, specifically the Piedmont and eastern regions of North Carolina in the mid-twentieth century. It aims to uncover an often overlooked local history of civil rights labor organizing which challenged the southern status quo before America's 'mainstream' civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. This study argues that through labor organizing, African American tobacco workers challenged the class, gender, and race hierarchy of North Carolina's very profitable tobacco industry during the first half of the twentieth century. In doing so, the th
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Griffin, Lara. "The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: White Socialist Feminism and Women's Health Organizing in the 1970s." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1438529943.

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Sloan, Michael Andrew. "A Misguided Quest for Legitimacy: The Community Relations Department of the Southern Organizing Committee of the CIO During Operation Dixie, 1946-1953." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/7.

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This thesis is a study of the Community Relations Department of the Southern Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations during the CIO’s Southern Organizing Drive, often referred to as “Operation Dixie.” The Community Relations Department was primarily interested in improving relations between organized labor and organized religion, in the hopes that improved church-labor relations would produce a situation more conducive to labor organizing, and reduce attacks on the CIO from religious leaders. This thesis examines the methods utilized by the CRD to achieve this end, and
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Markowitz, Linda Jill. "Participatory democracy in union organizing: The influence of authority structures on workers' sentiments and actions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187431.

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Labor unions began creating new organizing strategies in the nineteen-eighties with the hope of increasing membership levels. This dissertation focuses on two such strategies: the "comprehensive campaign" utilized by the International Grocery Workers' Union (IGWU) and the "blitz" developed by the United States Clothing Workers' Union (USCWU). These strategies differ in one fundamental way; the amount of participation they elicit from the workforce being organized. I am interested in how different levels of participation influence workers' sentiments and actions regarding the union. The IGWU's
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Livingston, Louis B. "Theodore Roosevelt on Labor Unions: A New Perspective." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3077.

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Historical studies of Theodore Roosevelt's views about labor and labor unions are in conflict. This was also true of contemporary disagreements about the meaning of his labor rhetoric and actions. The uncertainties revolve around whether or not he was sincere in his support of working people and labor unions, whether his words and actions were political only or were based on a philosophical foundation, and why he did not propose comprehensive labor policies. Roosevelt historiography has addressed these questions without considering his stated admiration for Octave Thanet's writings about "labo
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Choi, Inyi. "Organizing negotiation and resistance : the role of Korean union federations as institutional mediators /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3161969.

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Webster, Barbara Grace. ""Fighting in the grand cause" a history of the trade union movement in Rockhampton, 1907-1957 /." Access full text, 1999. http://elvis.cqu.edu.au/thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20020715.151239.

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Thesis (Ph.D) -- Central Queensland University, 1999.<br>Submitted as fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Central Queensland University, August 1999". Bibliography: leaves 425-452. Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Sloan, Michael. "A misguided quest for legitimacy the Community Relations Department of the Southern Organizing Committee of the CIO During Operation Dixie, 1946-1953 /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252006-222258/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Michelle Brattain, committee chair; Charles Steffen, committee member. Electronic text (110 p.) ; digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 18, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-110).
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Books on the topic "Labor unions – Organizing – History"

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Veber, A. B. Trade unions and capital: A Marxist view. Novosti, 1988.

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Veber, A. B. Trade unions and capital: A Marxist view. Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1988.

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Staughton, Lynd, and Lynd Alice, eds. The new rank and file. ILR Press, 2000.

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Boyd, Kyle, and Susan Pointon. Organizing America: A history of trade unions in the U.S. Films Media Group, 2004.

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Keon, Daniel John. Union organizing activity in Ontario, 1970-1986. Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University, 1988.

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Richards, Lawrence. Union-free America: Workers and antiunion culture. University of Illinois Press, 2008.

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Alice, Lynd, and Lynd Staughton, eds. Rank and file: Personal histories by working-class organizers. Monthly Review Press, 1988.

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Lynd, Alice. Rank and file: Personal histories by working-class organizers. 3rd ed. Haymarket Books, 2011.

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University of Cape Town. Community Education Resources., ed. It's a struggle on the farms!: A history of organising farmworkers in the Western Cape. Community Education Resources, University of Cape Town, 1989.

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Frank, Dana. Purchasing power: Consumer organizing, gender, and the Seattle labor movement, 1919-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Labor unions – Organizing – History"

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Jessup, David, and Michael E. Gordon. "9. Organizing in Export Processing Zones: The Bibong Experience in the Dominican Republic." In Transnational Cooperation among Labor Unions, edited by Michael A. Gordon and Lowell Turner. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501721694-010.

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Robbins, Janice I., and Carol L. Tieso. "How did Labor Unions Emerge?" In Engaging with History in the Classroom. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003234937-12.

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Rojas, Raquel. "Work, Gender, and Labor Organizing: Paid Domestic Workers’ Unions in Paraguay." In Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25883-1_7.

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Jones-Hendrickson, S. B. "Lessons from the History of Unions in the U.S. Virgin Islands." In Environment and Labor in the Caribbean. Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429337055-6.

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Freund, William. "Organized Labor in the Republic of South Africa: History and Democratic Transition." In Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230610033_7.

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Caldemeyer, Dana M. "Unfaithful Followers." In Reconsidering Southern Labor History. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056975.003.0008.

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The United Mine Workers of America (UMW) had roughly 13,000 members when it called for a nationwide suspension in bituminous coal production in April 1894, but over 150,000 primarily non-union miners quit work in support of the UMW-orchestrated strike for better pay. Despite their longstanding hostility to UMW leaders and organizing tactics, miners in southern coalfields like Missouri and Kentucky were among the thousands to join the strike but not the union. This essay considers why laborers would follow the orders of a union they refused to join by considering the social and economic factors
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Sistrom, Michael. "The Freedom Labor Union." In Reconsidering Southern Labor History. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056975.003.0013.

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The Mississippi Freedom Labor Union (MFLU) and related efforts were part of the larger evolution of black activism and of the maturing and varied philosophy of Black Power in the mid- and later 1960s. The MFLU and its offshoots embodied this mutation; first, in strategy, from a focus on demonstrations to capture the attention of a national white audience to awakening and organizing the poor black community in the South; and second, a shift in goals from requesting civil rights from the country's lawmakers to demanding a share of political and economic power. After a series of plantation strike
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Herbert, William A., and Joseph Van Der Naald. "So Many Roads, So Much at Stake." In Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education. University of Illinois Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045547.003.0015.

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This chapter traces the history of faculty bargaining unit composition in higher education. From the emergence of faculty unionism in the early twentieth century, practical and legal factors have largely shaped how faculty of different ranks and statuses organize. The chapter argues that another factor, the hegemony of professional craft unionism over industrial unionism, has been a major cause of contingent and tenure-track faculty forming separate bargaining units and faculty organizing separately from other campus workers. Using data from recent faculty representation efforts, the chapter d
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"Seeing Purple." In Purple Power, edited by Joseph A. McCartin and Luís LM Aguiar. University of Illinois Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044717.003.0001.

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This chapter briefly outlines the history of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its steady rise to the most influential union in the North American labor movement. It discusses SEIU’s uniqueness regarding innovative and creative campaigns, like Justice for Janitors, often led by a cadre of young union organizers recruited from outside the labor movement. The authors end with a discussion of the union’s prospects for retaining a dynamism of creative impulses for organizing workers in the twenty-first century while tackling increasing uncertainty and inequality in the labor market,
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Donaldson, Rachel. "The Southern Tenant Farmers Museum and the Difficult History of Agricultural Organizing." In Where Are the Workers? University of Illinois Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044397.003.0010.

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This chapter analyzes the historic preservation of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union's original headquarters in Tyronza, Arkansas, and the site's subsequent development as a museum. Currently, the Southern Tenant Farmers Museum presents the union's formative years and the region’s sharecropping system more broadly. By exploring the difficulties public historians faced in establishing a museum rooted in the history of an extremely exploitative form of labor in a rural region and how these challenges shaped the interpretation presented in the museum, this chapter deepens our understanding of th
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Conference papers on the topic "Labor unions – Organizing – History"

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Gurina, Tat'yana, and Elena Moradi. "Regarding the history of medical support of competitive diving." In ISSUES OF ESTABLISHING THE SEVERITY OF HARM CAUSED TO HUMAN HEALTH AS A RESULT OF EXPOSURE TO A BIOLOGICAL FACTOR. Publishing Center RIOR, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/conferencearticle_664d8c014ad7e5.63018733.

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Order No. 1144n from October 23, 2020 «On approval of the procedure for organizing the provision of medical care to persons involved in physical education and sports (also during the preparation and holding of physical education events and sports events), including the procedure for medical examination of persons wishing to undergo sports training, to engage in physical education and sports in organizations and (or) to fulfill the standards of trials (tests) of the Russian physical culture and sports complex «Ready for Labor and Defense» (GTO)» is still the main regulatory act regulating medic
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Murphy, Cornelius. "Remediation of One Million Tons of Low-Level Radioactive Waste at the Department of Energy Fernald Closure Project." In ASME 2003 9th International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management and Environmental Remediation. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2003-5001.

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The Fernald Waste Pits Remedial Action Project (WPRAP) is located within the Department of Energy (DOE) Fernald Closure Project (FCP) Site located 32 km (20 miles) northeast of Cincinnati, Ohio. The FCP covers 424 ha (1,050 acres) of land in a rural, agricultural community. Fluor Fernald, Inc., is the Prime Contractor to the DOE for management of the FCP remediation. The WPRAP is removing approximately one million tons of low-level radioactive waste from eight storage pits which cover 15 ha (38 acres). This waste was generated during the FCP uranium metal production years of 1952 to 1989. Radi
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Sturlaugson, Brent. "Materials Commons." In 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.59.

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In this paper, I argue that the deconstruction of vacant buildings in historically disinvested neighborhoods can be leveraged to reimagine property and labor relations—and their attendant spatial configurations—toward a more socially just and ecologically viable future. The paper consists of three parts, offering Baltimore as a case study. First, I contextualize vacancy in Baltimore by summarizing the policies and practices that created zones of racialized disinvestment where residents lack access to adequate resources, which renders the private accumulation of capital ineffective in the creat
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