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Imperial Women of Darien: Scottish Migration and Gender in the Atlantic World, 1650-1740
(2020-06-03)
In the last two years of the seventeenth century, approximately 3,000 people, mostly Scottish merchants, soldiers, sailors and their families, migrated to a small coastal region in central America for the purpose of ...
Working for Peanuts: Labor, Geography, and Class Composition in the American Circus Industry, 1872-1938
(2022-04-14)
This dissertation focuses on class composition in the traveling circus in the Gilded Age (1870s-1900s), the Progressive Era (1890s-1910s), and the New Era (1920s-1930s). American circuses became industrial operations ...
Introduction to the Texas Labor Archives
(Texas Center for Working-Class Studies, 2020-02-20)
"Introduction to the Texas Labor Archives" tells the story of the creation, early growth, and development of the Texas Labor Archives, the largest labor archives in the state of Texas.
We Will Not Strike: The Black Revolt in the Chicago Teachers Union
(2015-12-09)
In the 1960s, black teachers in Chicago were systematically discriminated against by the school system’s Board of Education. The Board used a subjective oral exam to deny the vast majority of African-American educators ...