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Browsing by Subject "labor"

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    And They Called Them “Galleanisti”: The Rise of the Cronaca Sovversiva and the Formation of America’s Most Infamous Anarchist Faction (1895-1912)
    (2018-06) Hoyt, Andrew
    This dissertation tells the story of how a small group of low-profile militants, located on the periphery of industrial America, set in motion a chain of events that led Luigi Galleani to become one of the most notorious Italian anarchist and resulted in the Cronaca Sovversiva (1903-1919) becoming the most infamous “anarchist rag” ever published in North America. To counter the erasure of anarchists from the social history of the immigrant working-class (and to describe members of the Cronaca network beyond Galleani), this dissertation conducts extensive analysis of a single journal but avoids its ideological content. Instead, I focus my investigation on the newspaper’s financial data (including over 70,000 lines of subscription information) and on over 700 “notes” published under the Cronaca Locale heading (which documented events and conflicts in the town of Barre). A focus on these two sources has allowed me to map the flow of money through the larger Cronaca network and to rebuild a calendar of the Barre anarchists’ social life; thereby facilitating a materially specific telling of a story of the Cronaca’s rise to prominence and the process by which the journal’s network spread and simultaneously narrowed—reaching a position of importance within a transnational movement while also walling itself off from that larger movement by becoming inseparably linked with the polarizing and larger-than-life personality of Galleani. It is a tale of social relations more than of ideas or ideology; its goal is to explain how a small sub-network within the anarchist movement became increasingly radical and turned away from mass-organizing, thereby setting the stage for the better-known history of the so-called “Galleanisti” as anarchism’s most divisive faction.
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    Building the Future of Art Museums: Spotlighting Behind the Scenes Roles in Art Museums and Art Spaces in the Twin Cities
    (2023) Pilarski, Laura A
    This StoryMap dives into the world of behind the scenes roles at Twin Cities art museums through a series of interviews with industry professionals with the central question being how they view the future of museums from their perspective. This question guided our conversations, with topics including: accessibility, labor and compensation, the changing role of institutions after COVID-19, and technology’s impact on the field. This narrative-based methodology seeks to amplify the voices of those who work in less visible roles within museums and the impact of their work regarding DEAI, the art viewing experience, and the preservation of the artists’ vision through exhibition design. A phenomenological approach was taken to further examine the main topics and current events within the field.
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    Cash and Carry
    (2021-05) McFarland, Grant, D R
    Cash and Carry is made up of two sets of six objects (bed, spoon, shirt, playing cards, stool, butter). One set is in my apartment, while the other is shown in the gallery. Each object in the gallery has a corresponding piece that calls to mind the other object in my home.
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    Constructing and Contesting “the Girlhood of Our Empire”: Girls’ Culture, Labor, and Mobility in Britain, South Africa, and New Zealand, c. 1830-1930
    (2019-04) Dillenburg, Elizabeth
    This dissertation studies girls’ complex, often paradoxical roles in the British Empire and analyzes how discussions about the education, employment, and emigration of girls both reflected and shaped broader political, economic, and social debates. Although girls are marginalized in studies of colonialism, concerted efforts to educate and emigrate girls reveal how the project of empire building depended on the mobility and labor of girls and young women. This dissertation begins by considering the ways in which youth organizations sought to transform girls into “empire builders” and girls’ roles as migrants, settlers, laborers, and creators and transmitters of colonial knowledge. Girls supported the empire, but they also challenged systems of colonial power and resisted prescribed roles in various ways, from penning criticisms of false imperial propaganda to absconding from exploitative situations. While most histories of childhood focus on one region, “Constructing and Contesting ‘the Girlhood of Our Empire’” employs a multi-sited framework that examines girlhood in different areas of the empire—concentrating specifically on Britain, New Zealand, and South Africa—to elucidate variations within broader colonial processes. As explored in the second part of the dissertation, emigration programs for British girls to New Zealand and South Africa faced innumerable obstacles, and their limited success exposed fault lines within the colonial project. The third part of the dissertation focuses debates over the employment of African and Māori girls as domestic servants in British colonial households and how these debates reveal the ways in which ideas of girlhood and girls’ lives were intertwined with conceptualizations of the nation, empire, and race. The nature of the colonial archive means that girls’ experiences rarely appear in the traditional sources, but their voices do emerge in letters they wrote to family and friends, articles they composed for children’s periodicals, scrapbooks they crafted, and photographs and artwork they created. Utilizing these myriad sources, “Constructing and Contesting ‘the Girlhood of Our Empire’” provides new insights into girls’ roles in the empire and more nuanced understandings of how class, race, and geography mediated girls’ experiences of and engagement with colonialism.
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    Exhibit Poster for, "Labor in the Eyes of Artists: Zines, Scenes and Inbetweens," April 1 - July 18, 2014
    (2014-04) Ultan, Deborah; Keating, Lindsay
    The exhibit highlights artist zines, posters, and other forms of aesthetically derived text/image formats to explore issues of social justice as a means to promote social change. The materials on exhibit are from the Francis V. Gorman Collection of Rare Art Books, the Social Welfare History Archives, and the University Libraries' Special Collections.
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    Having Your Baby: Upright or Lying Down?
    (2008-03-31) Wallace, Daniel C.
    Giving birth in the upright position holds several advantages over giving birth lying down. These advantages include: reduced duration of second stage of labor (less pushing time); a small reduction in assisted deliveries (deliveries that required the use of vacuum, forceps or csection); a reduction in episiotomies (an incision made to enlarge the birth opening); reduced reporting of severe pain during second stage of labor; and fewer abnormal fetal heart rate patterns. Despite these obvious
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    Lusty Ladies: Sex Work and Sex-Positive Politics, 1970-2013
    (2019-08) Swift, Jayne
    Lusty Ladies: Sex Work and Sex-Positive Politics, 1970-2013, offers the first historical and critical exploration of the politics of sex-positivity, through a larger cultural history of sex worker social movements in the late-20th-century United States. Using the Lusty Lady theater (a historically-significant and recently closed legal commercial sex franchise), I argue that people in the sex trade have challenged their social marginalization and criminalization and made their employment legible as work through authoring discourses of “sex-positive” feminism. Sex-positivity was instrumental in forming a new political collectivity: sex workers. Through oral history interviews with one-time employees of the franchise, archival research, and historical analysis of the cultural production of sex workers, my research demonstrates the materialist roots and world-making capacities of sex-positivity.
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    Minnesota's Health Workforce: Role of the Academic Health Center
    (University of Minnesota, 2005-05-12) Cerra, Frank B.
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    Online and In the Spotlight: A Critical Analysis of The Beauty Vlogger
    (2018-08) Weinzimmer, Lauren
    This dissertation analyzes the beauty vlogger, who I define for purposes of this project as an individual who produces beauty content across multiple social media platforms as her full-time job. Through textual and discourse analysis, personal observation, and interviews with content creators, I theorize the beauty vlogger through the multiple identities that she simultaneously embodies – those of the female entrepreneurial laborer, the public persona, and the social media “influencer.” Not only does this dissertation critically interrogate the beauty vlogger as she exists within the contemporary post-Fordist and neoliberal capitalist context, but it also historicizes the figure of the beauty vlogger by looking to other modes of gendered, raced, and classed entrepreneurialism within and around the beauty industry over the course of the twentieth century. In the current moment, the beauty vlogger exists within a highly commercialized environment, both through her engagement with online video and social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat which monetize the content she creates and through her positionality vis-à-vis the traditional beauty industry. In her role as a public persona and social media influencer who tests and reviews beauty products, the beauty vlogger functions as a critical part of emergent marketing and advertising strategies that capitalize on the relationship the beauty vlogger fosters with her audience. Increasingly, this content has materialized into formalized, paid partnerships between the beauty vlogger and beauty brands, which provides the beauty vlogger with additional revenue streams. The lifestyle that the beauty vlogger promotes online as an entrepreneur, a public persona, and an influencer, is one which others aspire to attain, but it is important to remember the curated nature of the beauty vlogger’s online identity. In this dissertation, I render visible the beauty vlogger’s hidden labor that produces and mitigates her seemingly glamorous lifestyle.
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    Wearing Out: Digital Precarity In Just-In-Time Retail
    (2018-05) Van Oort, Madison
    Wearing Out: Digital Precarity in Just-in-Time Retail investigates the booming but vastly understudied world of fast fashion. Glance at any list of the world’s wealthiest people, and alongside Bill Gates, you’ll find Amancio Ortega and Stefan Persson, who head multinational retail giants Zara and H&M, both of which are now found in almost every major city in the United States. This sector of retail—known for quickly designing, producing, circulating, and selling tremendous amounts of trendy, cheap clothing—is an increasingly important player in the global market. For my dissertation, I embarked on one of the first ethnographies of the industry: working undercover in two of the world’s largest fast fashion stores in New York City, interviewing dozens of front-line workers and labor activists, and attending corporate conferences. The manuscript advances both sociology of work and critical data studies by providing an on-the-ground account of how big data and surveillance shape the lives of low-status workers in an industry in flux. I argue that fast fashion represents a distinct regime of retail capitalism, in which fast fashion retail companies take advantage of big data and biometric technology to perfect just-in-time production practices in the retail workplace, reaping profits by creating commodities and workers designed to wear out and frequently turn over. This digital precarity, I find, is entangled with broader forms of precariatization, digitization, and policing throughout society, compounding insecurity for already marginalized populations. Finally, my ethnography reveals how collective struggles for racial, gender, and economic justice in and around retail spaces help advance a critical data praxis.