"Don't sleep with Stevens!" The J.P. Stevens boycott and social activism in the 1970s
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Thousands of people from across the United States took part in 'Justice for J.P. Stevens' Workers Day' was held in support of a human boycott against a giant textile company that persistently showed its willingness to violate the law rather than recognize the workers' right to organize. The protestors carried signs urging consumers to steer clear of the company's sheets and a staple part of its textile business and Americans insisted they sleep with the products of a company that had repeatedly violated labor laws and was guilty of racial and sexual discrimination against its workers.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2005
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Neoconservation prefigured: The Social Democratic League of America and the Anticommunists of the Anglo-American Right, 1917-21
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Humans at the two extreme ends of the anticommunist spectrum can transcend their profound ideological disagreements and liaise and cooperate across the gulf of ideology. A reconstruction of the early collaboration of the Social Democratic League and orthodox Marxists on an ant-Bolshevik program that was based on shared proximate goals is done to explain how it became easy during the Cold War for so many of the anticommunists to turn to (neo)conservative right.
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2006
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From "informed choice" to "social hygiene": government control of cigarette smoking in the US
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Government's legislative as well as regulatory actions that emphasized the need for smokers to make decisions about their habit on the basis of 'informed choiceE are discussed. The action focused on consumer education, which was supplemented by an increased willingness to treat smoking as a 'social hygiene' from late 1970's onwards
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2004
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