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Labor In Akron, 1825-1945

de John A. Tully

~~33,11€~~ 26,49€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 Akron, Ohio, is of special interest in the story of U.S. labor as it has a history of intense struggle, both between Capital and Labor and between conflicting forms of labor organization. The book powerfully describes this conflict in Akron, including the massive rubber worker''s strike of 1913. Dr. Tully illustrates these struggles with the individual stories of rank-and-file workers and radical activists. In the mid-1930s, after a battle both against employers, determined to keep the open shop, and the conservative AFL leaders, Akron became a bastion of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and, briefly, of the Farmer-Labor Party. The leaders of this "home-grown" social union movement understood that workers were a class whose interests went further than just a bargaining relationship with employers. By the end of the decade, however, the "business industrial unionism" model had blocked the great upsurge of social unionism and the impetus for independent labor politics was channeled back behind the Democratic Party. The book explains why and how socially progressive unionism was defeated. It argues that rebuilding the working-class movement along the lines supported by Tate and others in Akron in the 1930s is the great, unfinished business of labor in the United States.
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Akron'S Daily Miracle - Reporting The News In The Rubber City

de Deb Van Tassel Warner e Stuart Warner

~~33,11€~~ 26,49€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 Akron''s Daily Miracle begins with the death of the heir to John S. and James Knight''s newspaper empire and ends with the demise of Knight Ridder Newspapers but also with a note about how the Knight spirit lives on in Akron and elsewhere. The Beacon Journal staff discuss how they came together to produce the Pulitzer Gold Medal-winning series A Question of Color; what it was like to walk behind Akron''s Lebron James in the parade of champions in Cleveland; and the impact of being the largest city in American without a local TV station. In between is a collection of essays from those who produced the news in the Rubber City, including international best-selling authors Thrity Umrigar and Regina Brett and popular columnists Bob Dyer and Stuart Warner, written to remind readers of the value of excellent local journalism.
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Coach Of A Different Color - One Man’S Story Of Breaking Barriers In Football

de Ray Greene

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 As a freshman at South High School in Akron, Ohio, Ray Greene overslept one August 1952 morning and was a few minutes late to football practice. Coach Gordon Larson saw this and cut him from the team. This did not diminish his desire to play football. He returned to play his sophomore year and went on to have a distinguished career in high school, college, and professional football. Greene entered coaching in the 1960s, determined to make the most of every opportunity. He became expert in coaching and football philosophy at a young age. As offensive assistant coach at Akron''s blue-collar Kenmore High School, Greene helped Coach Dick Fortner install the "Run and Shoot" offense in 1963. Many innovations were installed with this offense. Kenmore surprised everyone by starting the season with victories of 52-0 and 50-6. They ended the season in the City Championship at the University of Akron''s Rubber Bowl. From Kenmore Greene moved on and up in the coaching ranks. "It''s not who you know," he learned, "but who knows you." Word of his abilities spread as he applied for countless jobs and attended many coaching conferences. When Johnny Majors decided it was time to hire a black coach for the Iowa State Cyclones, Greene was recommended. When he accepted the position, Greene, as a direct result of demands by black athletes, became one of the first -- if not the very first -- black coach in Division I-A college football. Later Greene coached for Jacksonville (of the World League), Michigan State, North Carolina Central, Alabama A&M, and Jackson State. Coach of a Different Color tells the story of Greene''s rise through the coaching ranks and will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Akron, in the history of football, and in the important life lessons we can take from the story of his achievement. The book also contains testimonials by football legends Johnny Majors, Jimmy Johnson, Dwight Wright, and Ray Sherman.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company - A Photographic History, 1898-1951

de S. Victor Fleischer

~~66,24€~~ 52,99€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company was founded in 1898 in Akron, Ohio. Within thirty years it became the world''s largest tire company and the largest rubber manufacturer in the world. The success of the company was essentially a result of three things: its people, places, and products. These subjects are captured in the company''s extensive corporate photo archives that is one of the flagship collections of The University of Akron Archival Services. Rubber as Seen through the Lens visually chronicles the rich and fascinating history of Goodyear, highlighting the products that helped make Goodyear a household name and Akron the "Rubber Capital of the World": tires that shod winning race cars in first Indy 500s; blimps that advertised the Goodyear brand; figure balloons that graced the Macy''s parades; conveyors used to build the Shasta and Grand Coulee dams; and balloons and airplane components that were critical assets in both world wars. This volume features over two hundred rare and visually stunning historic photographs from the collection, many of which have never been published before. Head archivist S. Victor Fleischer meticulously reviewed, selected, and researched each image to provide descriptive captions and a readable, authoritative narrative to tell the fascinating stories behind the products. Whether you or a family member worked for Goodyear or just have an affinity for its heritage or Akron''s history, this volume is sure to be a household keepsake. To see more images from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Collection please visit www.uakron.edu/libraries/archives.
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West Point Market Cookbook

de Russ Vernon

~~31,79€~~ 25,43€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 Reveals the recipes for favourites such as Downtown Hash Browns, Sweet Potato Biscuits, Baja Corn Soup, Ohio Summer Squash Casserole, and Grilled Leg of Lamb with Walnut Mint Pesto. This cookbook features individual dishes, including West Point Market's famous chicken pot pie. It provides wine suggestions for most of the recipes.
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River, Reaper, Rail - Agriculture And Identity In Ohio’S Mad River Valley, 1795-1885

de Timothy Thoresen

~~95,39€~~ 76,31€ 20% IMEDIATO + 5% EM CARTÃO

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 River, Reaper, Rail: Agriculture and Identity in Ohio''s Mad River Valley, 1795-1885 tells the story of farmers and technology in Ohio''s Champaign County and its Mad River Valley from the beginnings of white settlement in 1795 through the decades after the Civil War. This is a story of land-hungry migrants who brought a market-oriented farm ethos across the Appalachians into the Ohio Valley. There, they adapted their traditional farm practices to opportunities and big changes brought by the railroad, the mechanization of the harvesting process, and the development of state-sponsored farmer organizations. For a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century, this part of America''s heartland was the center of the nation geographically, agriculturally, and industrially. With the coming of the Civil War and the nation''s further industrialization and westward expansion, the representative centrality of west central Ohio diminished. But the shared conviction that "we are an agricultural people" did not. This book presents their embrace of that view as a process of innovation, adjustment, challenge, and conservative acceptance spanning two or three generations.

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