A History of the International Labor Communications Association

ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: A HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Matthew C. Bates, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Linda Steiner Philip Merrill College of Journalism Keywords: labor, unions, press, media, journalism, International Labor Press Association, ILCA, ILPA, AFL-CIO, social movements This dissertation examines post-World War II debates within U.S. unions over the role and character of the labor press. I use archival sources and interviews to construct a history of the International Labor Communications Association (ILCA). The AFL-CIO created the ILCA (originally, the International Labor Press Association) in 1956 to strengthen communications with union members and the public. Representing hundreds of publications, the ILCA remains the only national organization of journalists working on behalf of U.S. unions. The debates over the role and character of union media are put in the context of social movement and organization theory. Like most modern social movements, organized labor exists as both a set of bureaucratic institutions and as diffuse agglomerations of individuals struggling against dominant social actors. Policies and practices that prioritize the needs of union organizations and leaders (i.e. tendencies towards "business unionism") frequently conflict with the needs and impulses of rank-and-file workers ("social movement unionism"). The debates I examine--a campaign in the 1960s to win AFL-CIO support for community-based labor newspapers; divisions among union editors and leaders in the 1980s and 1990s over the use of electronic technologies for national public relations instead of local campaigns; a dispute in the late 1990s over editorial freedom for union journalists--express the underlying tensions between business and social-movement unionism. Movements use internal media to create member identities, define opponents, frame issues, and set goals. Debates over the content of movement media and who those media should mobilize are debates over the nature of the movement itself. U.S. unions are shrinking in size and influence. I conclude that union media will be indispensable in any successful effort to spark a new workers' movement. Given the constraints imposed by union leaders on the labor press, however, I conclude that the chances of igniting a new movement will be greatly enhanced if union journalists collaborate outside the current union structures. Digital media and networks of progressive media activists offer unprecedented opportunities for union journalists to communicate with vast numbers of wage earners rapidly, and at relatively low cost

A Brief Economic History of the City of Rockland, Maine

In writing this Brief Economic History of the City of Rockland, Maine there has been no desire or attempt to name the businesses that have been in existence in the City of Rockland, or to give the history of any particular business or industry. Indeed, the only attempt made has been to indicate those industrial movements and financial factors that have largely influenced the economic progress of the City. Contents: Historical Sketch; City Finances; The Knox and Lincoln Railroad; Banks; The Lime Industry; Shipbuilding Industry and Shipping; The Fish Industry; and Miscellaneous

Dome Tester

We are reconfiguring and modifying the previously built dome tester to be more user friendly and mechanically applicable. This has a long-term goal of being a usable teaching tool for manufacturing education within the college of engineering and polymer sciences. The dome tester pushes a metal dome into a clamped sheet of metal to test its forming limits and where necking occurs. We have implemented a better method of viewing the sheet sample as it is being deformed, and improved measuring methods for the distance a sample is deformed. By introducing these changes in conjunction with improved documentation of the testing procedure we hope to make this tester a more viable teaching tool for students to learn manufacturing methods and considerations

Institute of Archaeology & Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter Volume 22.4

Triennial Conference, Douglas R. Clark Hoffmeier at Andrews, Robert D. Bates NEH-Funded Summer Institute for School Teachers Madaba Plains Project Tall Al - \u27Umayri, Jordan: June 19 - July 31, 2002 Random Surveyhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/iaham-news/1008/thumbnail.jp

Faith is my Fortune: A Life Story of George Pepperdine

This memoir, dictated to the authors by George Pepperdine, is subtitled “actual experiences, business success and reverses, stewardship and philanthropy, which have proved that strong religious faith is a greater fortune, more to be desired than riches, or any other assets.” This is the story of George Pepperdine (1886-1962), founder of Western Auto Supply and, later, Pepperdine University in Southern California. Pepperdine was a noted businessman, philanthropist, and a lifelong member of Churches of Christ.https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/heritage_center/1002/thumbnail.jp

On a simple criterion for the existence of a principal eigenfunction of some nonlocal operators

In this paper we are interested in the existence of a principal eigenfunction of a nonlocal operator which appears in the description of various phenomena ranging from population dynamics to micro-magnetism. More precisely, we study the following eigenvalue problem: \int_{\O}J(\frac{x-y}{g(y)})\frac{\phi(y)}{g^n(y)}\, dy +a(x)\phi =\rho \phi, where \O\subset\R^n is an open connected set, $J$ a nonnegative kernel and $g$ a positive function. First, we establish a criterion for the existence of a principal eigenpair $(\lambda_p,\phi_p)$. We also explore the relation between the sign of the largest element of the spectrum with a strong maximum property satisfied by the operator. As an application of these results we construct and characterize the solutions of some nonlinear nonlocal reaction diffusion equations

Institute of Archaeology & Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter Volume 22.2

Syria and Turkey Study Tour, Paul J. Ray, Jr. Bienkowski at Andrews, Robert D. Bates Hester Thomsen Chilson, Douglas R. Clark Random Surveyhttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/iaham-news/1006/thumbnail.jp