Shovel and Shamrock: Irish workers and labor violence in the digging of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Labor History ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Way
Keyword(s):  
Labor Violence

Collective Action and Collective Violence in the Russian Labor Movement

Slavic Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 443-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Koenker
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Violence ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Urban Worker ◽  
Labor Violence ◽  
The One

Historians of the Russian labor movement have been slowly chipping away at the stereotypes about Russian workers created by generations of intellectuals quick to generalize from eye-catching impressions. The result has been the stereotyped, bipolar working class. On the one hand is the “peasant yokel” who too frequently resorts to the violent and mindless behavior indigenous to his original rural swamp. On the other hand, we find the skilled urban worker, sometimes a “half-literate intellectual,” sometimes a labor aristocrat who disdains to cooperate with his socialist mentors. Daniel Brower's look at labor violence attempts to help reshape the familiar stereotype by exploring the cultural roots of the Russian worker's predilection for violence and by showing that such behavior is less mindless and more political than its critics have accepted. By not adequately specifying the contours and especially the frequency of violence, however, he leaves us ultimately with the old image of a Pugachevshchina in the factories. Brower in effect takes the pieces of the stereotype he has chipped away and glues them back in approximately the same pattern.

Labor Violence in Russia in the Late Nineteenth Century

Slavic Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Brower
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Collective Violence ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Labor Violence ◽  
Insight Into

Protest action accompanied by violence was widespread among Russian factory workers during the late nineteenth century. The phenomenon was noted by tsarist officials and radicals alike, but historians since then have paid little attention to the problem. This neglect has contributed to a distorted picture of the working-class movement and of the relations between Russian workers and factory and state authorities. In recent years it has become a truism to affirm that collective violence constitutes evidence of profound social stress. It is also true that the form and character of the violence in certain historical circumstances provide unique insight into the attitudes and expectations of groups, such as factory workers, otherwise unable to express their views. The violent actions of Russian workers are particularly important to an understanding of the origins of the revolutionary movement among the workers in the early twentieth century. What form did these actions take? Who were the participants, and what goals did they seek to attain? How did the incidence and nature of the actions change over the last decades of the century? Although the evidence is not abundant, answers to these questions suggest that collective violence played an important part in the working-class movement in the late nineteenth century.

Labor Violence — A Reply

Slavic Review ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Brower
Keyword(s):  
Labor Violence

Requiem for a “Tough Guy”: Representing Hockey Labor, Violence and Masculinity in Goon

2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellexis Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Crisis Of Masculinity ◽  
Labor Violence ◽  
Insight Into

This paper explores the ongoing construction of hockey in Canada through a textual analysis of the popular comedy, Goon (2012). Touted by its authors as “the Canadian sequel to Slap Shot” and “an homage to enforcers”, Goon is analyzed in relation to simmering debates about fighting in hockey as well as the broader crisis of employment and masculinity that characterize the sociopolitical milieu in which the film circulates. A crisis of masculinity narrative is found to emerge in and through a discourse about working-class labor that both celebrates and devalorizes violent labor and the capitalist relations in which it is embedded. The analysis provides insight into the interlocking relationships among texts and contexts as well as the role of sport films in perpetuating dominant ideologies about violent labor in hockey.

Labor Violence and Regime Brutality in Tsarist Russia: The Iuzovka Cholera Riots of 1892

Slavic Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore H. Friedgut
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Early History ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
History Of ◽  
Labor Violence ◽  
The Many

Recent monographs on Russian social development have raised a number of hypotheses regarding our general understanding of processes of political and social change. In his volume on the early history of Russian workers Reginald Zelnik, for instance, proposes that moderate labor unrest reinforced traditional repressive patterns, while extreme conflicts motivated innovative reform. In the work of Robert E. Johnson and of Victoria Bonnell we find the suggestion that workers in small-scale enterprises and artisan shops were often more radical and organized than those in larger industrial enterprises. The fragmented and antagonistic nature of Russian society, with multiple splits of both an intergroup and intragroup nature, has been noted in the work of both Roberta Manning and Allan Wildman. Diane Koenker, focusing her research on the period of the 1917 revolutions, has brought out the moderating and integrating effect of the urban setting on Russian workers. These are only a few of the many thought-provoking hypotheses that have been raised.

scholarly journals PERLINDUNGAN HUKUM PERSAMAAN HAK ASASI PEREMPUAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN PEREKONOMIAN INDONESIA

to-ra ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 639
Author(s):  
Wiwik Sri Widiarty
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Women’S Human Rights ◽  
Investment Law ◽  
Labor Violence ◽  
Women's Human Rights

  Abstract The struggle of women in achieving equality and justice has been carried out long ago, whether in the economic, social, cultural, and political aspects, in fact it has not been able to raise the dignity of women to be equal to men. Various laws and regulations governing women's rights include those implied in the Convention on Elimination of All Forms Discrimination Againts Women (CEDAW), namely the rights possessed by a woman, both because she is a human being and as a woman. Even though CEDAW has been rati ed, there are still discriminatory regulations, such as the Investment Law, Marriage Law, the Law on Placement and Protection of Overseas  Workers, the Citizenship Act, and other Regional Regulations. Therefore, legal protection of women's human rights is very important, for women whose rights have been violated, especially since there are many cases of female labor violence working to help improve the family economy abroad.     Keywords: legal protection; women's human rights; female labor violence .  

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