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Labor Issues; Pittsburgh Politics;Steel Industry; Company Unions; U.S. Steel; Steel Workers Organizing Committee; CIO;Leaflet recruiting Pittsburgh steelworkers to join the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America and describing the injustices of current wages and working conditions.
Come to the Veterans' Mass Memorial announcement
Popular Front;William Huska; Eric Carlson; Bonus Forces;Advertisement promoting a memorial mass for two veterans who were murdered near the Nation's capital for insisting on justice for Veterans.
Peace Day rally announcement
Popular Front;Westinghouse;Announcement promoting a Peace Day rally broadcasted on radio station KQV, featuring John A. Metcalfe.
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Pittsburgh Politics;Elections; Pennsylvania;Pro-Communist political advertisement arguing against Governor James' support of bankers and the GOP's record.
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Pittsburgh Politics;Elections; Pennsylvania;Pro-Communist political advertisement arguing against Governor James' support of bankers and the GOP's record.
Communist Mass Election Rally announcement
Recognition of the Soviet Union; Pittsburgh Politics;Jack Johnstone; Ben Careathers; Max Jenkins; Tom Meyerscough; Communist Party Election Campaign Committee; Soviet Union;Announcement of a rally for workers featuring Communist candidate speakers.
Foundations of Leninism book advertisement
Pittsburgh Workers School;Lenin; Stalin; Soviet Union;Advertisement for the book Foundations of Leninism by Joseph Stalin.
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Labor Issues; Pittsburgh Politics;Announcement of a meeting to discuss an alleged frame-up of Local 325, Canning and Pickle Workers Union, by the H.J. Heinz Company.
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Labor Issues; Pittsburgh Politics;Announcement of a meeting to discuss an alleged frame-up of Local 325, Canning and Pickle Workers Union, by the H.J. Heinz Company.
Unusual Modes of Transportation
Everything from camels, elephants, reed boats, to gasoline powered vehicles, this short video stretches the students' imagination as to what transportation is and how the environment influences it. (1:25)
The Bracero Program
The government-sponsored Bracero Program was the temporary importation of workers from Mexico to aid the American agricultural economy. This was an important historical event that many Americans are unaware of today. A bracero (from brazo, the Spanish word for arm) was a Mexican worker allowed entry into the United States for a limited time, usually to work on a farm. In 1942, facing an extreme shortage of farm labor workers due to the war, Congress enacted the Emergency Labor Program. It approv
"The Influence of Shaivism on Pala Buddhism"
Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson is an Indologist and fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford. His field is early medieval religion in India and Southeast Asia, focusing on the history of
Saivism, its relations with the state, and its influence on Buddhism and Vaishnavism. In the last 26 years, Alexis Sanderson has published over 1,400 pages of articles covering Saiva, Vaishnava, and Buddhist Tantra in South and Southeast Asia.Author(s):
Studies in robust estimation and control
Effective monitoring and tight control of chemical, petrochemical and biochemical processes are often hindered by the absence of frequent measurements of important process variables that are related to product quality, the presence of process-model mismatch, unmeasureable disturbances, measurement noise, and highly nonlinear process dynamics. This dissertation presents new methods of nonlinear estimation and control in the presence of such practical problems. Simulation and real-time implementat
Environments of Africa
EARTH 105 investigates the interrelationships between geology, hydrology, land use and human development in several areas of Africa. We focus primarily on regions north of the equator, although there is a brife segment on South African mining. Specific topics include the Nile River (sources of the Nile, agricultural practices, effects of damming the Nile, and hydropolitics), the Sahara and Sahel (salt mines, climate change, drought, and wather resources), and natural resources and their role in
Amy Dean: "A New New Deal: How Regional Activism Will Reshape the American Labor Movement"
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David McNally: "Beyond the Market: Radical Alternatives to Market Socialism" DAVID MCNALLY is Professor of Political Science at York University,
Toronto. He is the author of five previous books: Political Economy and
the Rise of Capitalism (1988); Against the Market: Political Economy
Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique (1993); Bodies of Meaning:
Studies on Language, Labor and Liberation (2001); Another World is
Possible: Globalization and Anti-Capitalism (2002; second revised
edition 2006); and Monsters of the Market: Zombies
Samuel Farber: "Cuba Today: Current Trends and Future Developments" SAMUEL FARBER was born and raised in Cuba and received his Ph.D. in
Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He has
written numerous books and articles on Cuba including Revolution and
Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960, and most recently, The Origins of the
Cuban Revolution Reconsidered published by the University of North
Carolina Press in 2006. He is currently working on a book on Cuba since
the 1959 Revolution for Haymarket Press. He is a
Samuel Farber: "Cuba 1959: Roads Chosen and Not Chosen" SAMUEL FARBER was born and raised in Cuba and received his Ph.D. in
Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. He has
written numerous books and articles on Cuba including Revolution and
Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960, and most recently, The Origins of the
Cuban Revolution Reconsidered published by the University of North
Carolina Press in 2006. He is currently working on a book on Cuba since
the 1959 Revolution for Haymarket Press. He is a
Yochai Benkler: "Freedom of Power in the Networked Information Environment" YOCHAI BENKLER is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal
Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for
Internet and Society. Since the 1990s he has played a central part in
characterizing the role of information commons and decentralized
collaboration to innovation, information production, and freedom in the
networked economy and society. His books include The Wealth of
Networks: How social production transforms markets and f
"The Flood Disaster in Pakistan: Socio-economic Consequences and Potential Geopolitical Ramification
Imtiaz Gul is the Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Security Studies in Islamabad. He is the author of three books on the ongoing security concerns in South Asia: The Unholy Nexus, The Al-Qaeda Connection, and The Most Dangerous Place. Gul addresses the longer term political and social consequences of the floods in Pakistan of July of this
