Dr. Timothy Furnish will be on Dunwoody Campus, Tuesday, April 26 as a guest speaker in Professor Tiarsmith’s Middle East class; the subject will be terrorism.
The discussion will be held in room D1240 from 1:00 - 2:15 PM. Interested individuals are welcome to attend.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Southern Labor Studies Conference April 7-9, 2011
Collegues,
Robert Woodrum, GPC History, Alpharetta Center, presented on a panel at the recent Southern Labor Studies Conference. The panel which Woodrum organized included papers by Chad Pearson, University of Alabama (subject: N.F.Thompson's ideas on labor), and Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida (subject: 1912 Jacksonville Streetcar Strike)
Dr. Woodrum's essay, "'We Are Poor Devils': Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop Movement Along the Waterfront, Mobile, Alabama," examined employer efforts to destroy unions along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama in the years following World War I. Shipping companies united behind an “Open Shop” campaign to defeat the International Longshoremen’s Association, which had grown among mainly African American dock workers during the wartime era. The longshoremen established the union along the wharves and piers with protections from the federal government, which at the time saw unions as a way to ensure production and labor peace. After the war, however, federal protections were weakened and, in some cases, removed altogether. In the fall of 1923, the longshoremen went on strike for higher wages, and the companies united behind the “Open Shop” movement and defeated them. In some ways the victory for the shipping companies in Mobile was more complete than it was for the companies in other major Gulf Coast ports, where longshoremen went on strike at about the same time.
Robert Woodrum, GPC History, Alpharetta Center, presented on a panel at the recent Southern Labor Studies Conference. The panel which Woodrum organized included papers by Chad Pearson, University of Alabama (subject: N.F.Thompson's ideas on labor), and Robert Cassanello, University of Central Florida (subject: 1912 Jacksonville Streetcar Strike)
Dr. Woodrum's essay, "'We Are Poor Devils': Race, Unionism, and the Open Shop Movement Along the Waterfront, Mobile, Alabama," examined employer efforts to destroy unions along the waterfront in Mobile, Alabama in the years following World War I. Shipping companies united behind an “Open Shop” campaign to defeat the International Longshoremen’s Association, which had grown among mainly African American dock workers during the wartime era. The longshoremen established the union along the wharves and piers with protections from the federal government, which at the time saw unions as a way to ensure production and labor peace. After the war, however, federal protections were weakened and, in some cases, removed altogether. In the fall of 1923, the longshoremen went on strike for higher wages, and the companies united behind the “Open Shop” movement and defeated them. In some ways the victory for the shipping companies in Mobile was more complete than it was for the companies in other major Gulf Coast ports, where longshoremen went on strike at about the same time.
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