Love, Wages, Slavery

Love, Wages, Slavery
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780252030710
ISBN-13 : 0252030710
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Love, Wages, Slavery by : Barbara Ryan

"With the home the sacred center of social life in the nineteenth-century United States, few social tensions carried more weight than "the servant problem." As slavery tore at the nation, tension about domestic dependency became a heated topic to which publishers responded by producing a steady stream of literature instructing homemakers how to hire, treat, and discipline staff. In Love, Wages, Slavery, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials to chart shifts in thinking about what made a servant "good" and how servitors felt about attending non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, waged and chattel labor, status, race, and family life." "Love, Wages, Slavery examines the nature of "free" servitude before and after Emancipation through an in-depth comparison of negotiations of attendance and household management. Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan traces a complex discussion as it developed in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Godey's Lady's Book, and Harper's Bazar."--BOOK JACKET.

Love Cemetery

Love Cemetery
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780061748752
ISBN-13 : 0061748757
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Love Cemetery by : China Galland

One woman’s struggle to restore an old slave cemetery uncovers centuries-old racism When China Galland visited her childhood hometown in east Texas, she learned of an unmarked cemetery for slaves-Love Cemetery. Her ensuing quest to restore and reclaim the cemetary unearths racial wounds that have never completely healed. Research becomes activism as she organizes a grassroots, interracial committee, made up of local religious leaders and lay people, to work on restoring community access to the cemetery. The author also presents material from the time of slavery and the Reconstruction Era, including stories of “landtakings” (the theft of land from African Americans), and forms of slavery that continued well into the twentieth century. Ultimately Keepers of Love delivers a message of tremendous hope as members of both black and white communities come together to right an historical wrong, and in so doing, discover each other’s common dignity. “Galland captures the struggle to reclaim one small cemetery in Texas with such engrossing drama and personal detail that the story becomes something larger still-a universal struggle to reclaim the ground of Deep Compassion that lies untended in the human heart.”-Sue Monk Kidd

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
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Publisher : Liberties Journal
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 1735718785
ISBN-13 : 9781735718781
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics by : Liberties Journal Foundation

Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics is devoted to educating the general public about the history, current trends, and possibilities of culture and politics.

Wages Against Housework

Wages Against Housework
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 14
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105010463599
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Wages Against Housework by : Silvia Federici

Slavery by Another Name

Slavery by Another Name
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Publisher : Icon Books
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 9781848314139
ISBN-13 : 1848314132
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Slavery by Another Name by : Douglas A. Blackmon

A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Less Than a Living Wage

Less Than a Living Wage
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 16
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112039339285
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Less Than a Living Wage by :

Wage Slaves

Wage Slaves
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Publisher : Conundrum International
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 177262036X
ISBN-13 : 9781772620368
Rating : 4/5 (6X Downloads)

Synopsis Wage Slaves by : Daria Bogdanska

Daria Bogdanska moves to Malmö to attend art school, sets out to find a job, and discovers that in order to work in the country legally, she needs a Swedish personal identity number. But there is a catch: she can't get one without securing a job first. To make ends meet, Daria starts working under the table at an Indian restaurant. There, she discovers another level of inequity: lacking regulation, the underground job market is forcing immigrants to settle for a substandard quality of life. In turning to a union for help she sparks a legal battle that ultimately leads to fairer work practices for the people in her community. Reminiscent of the style of Julie Doucet, Wage Slaves is the autobiographical story of Daria Bogdanska's determined struggle to build a life in Malmö, and how she found a way to succeed, against all odds.

Capitalism Takes Command

Capitalism Takes Command
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 9780226451091
ISBN-13 : 0226451097
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Capitalism Takes Command by : Michael Zakim

Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow

Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 653
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ISBN-10 : 1458755037
ISBN-13 : 9781458755032
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow by : Jacqueline Jones

The forces that shaped the institution of slavery in the American South endured, albeit in altered form, long after slavery was abolished. Toiling in sweltering Virginia tobacco factories or in the kitchens of white families in Chicago, black women felt a stultifying combination of racial discrimination and sexual prejudice. And yet, in their efforts to sustain family ties, they shared a common purpose with wives and mothers of all classes. In Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow, historian Jacqueline Jones offers a powerful account of the changing role of black women, lending a voice to an unsung struggle from the depths of slavery to the ongoing fight for civil rights.

We Slaves of Suriname

We Slaves of Suriname
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9781509549030
ISBN-13 : 150954903X
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis We Slaves of Suriname by : Anton de Kom

Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland, from the first settlements by Europeans in search of gold through the era of the slave trade and the period of Dutch colonial rule, when the old slave mentality persisted, long after slavery had been formally abolished. 159 years after the abolition of slavery in Suriname and 88 years after its initial publication, We Slaves of Suriname has lost none of its brilliance and power.