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30 Lab. Stud. J. i (2005-2006)

handle is hein.journals/labstuj30 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction: Bringing the Study of Work Back to Labor Studies Tom Juravich Kate Bronfenbrenner Looking back at our history we cannot ignore how struggles around the changing nature of work itself were formative in the building of the U.S. labor movement. In the early textile mills in Lowell and Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, New England farm women, and later immigrants from western and central Europe, faced unending work days, dangerous conditions, and abusive supervisors. The rallying cry of the women who struck in Lawrence in 1912 was Give us bread and roses too. Of course they wanted higher wages, but theirs was no less a fight for dignity and respect-about humanizing their work lives so they might have the time and energy left for family and community. As Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford pushed the early factory system in the United States to new levels of inhumanity in the 1930s, workers organized in places like Flint, Gary, and Detroit. The CIO and the wave of organizing in auto, steel, and rubber brought important wage increases and the beginning of new employer-based benefits plans. Yet the CIO also brought important checks to management rights on the shop floor in an effort to restore some semblance of humanity for industrial workers and to make sure that work- ers had something left at the end of the day to share with their families and friends. We could explore more contemporary struggles of immigrant workers in meatpacking, hotels, building services, nursing homes, the legions of Wal-Mart workers, or those in more high-tech occupations. And we would discover the same processes at work-that the labor movement is borne from workplace struggles. Up and down the occupational ladder, what workers want is some kind of control on the job, some dignity in their work, some measure of fairness in their workplace, and some chance at a life outside of work. LABOR STUDIES JOURNAL, VOL 30, No. 1 (SP RING 2005): t-vn. PUBuSHED FORTHE UNITED ASSOcAIION FOR LABOR EDUCATION BY THE WEsrVIfNIA UNIVERSIIY PRESs, P.O. Box 6295, WEsT VIlGNIA UNIVERSIY, MoscAN-owN, WV 26506. © 2005, WEST VIRINIA UNIVERSITY PRfESS. i

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