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“Life Goin’ Nowhere”

The Seventies and the End of the American Working Class

by Michael C. Behrent, 14 December 2011

Rocky, John Travolta, Bruce Springsteen or the Al Pacino of Dog Day Afternoon are all witnesses to the understudied disappearance of the American working class in the 1970s. During this crucial (...)
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Disorder in Modernity

A New Revisionist History of Railroads in the U.S.

by Evelyne Payen-Variéras, 8 December 2011

Historians of business have looked at the development of railroads in the U.S. as a time of “managerial revolution.” Richard White’s latest book shows the role played by disorder and sheer (...)
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The World Social Forum Challenge

by Geoffrey Pleyers, 28 January 2009

The 8th World Social Forum opened on January 27th in Belem, Brazil. Geoffrey Pleyers explains the situation of the alter-globalisation movement: in spite of the success of its ideas in the wake (...)
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Emerging from Dependence : Domestic Employees’ Trade Unions in Brazil

by Dominique Vidal, 18 June 2008

Our societies are currently witnessing high speed development of direct personal services, which are suspected of concealing a return to domesticity. What should be done so that those who work (...)

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