Creedal Nationalism in early American labor movements

Varieties of American Popular Nationalism

Despite the relevance of nationalism for politics and intergroup relations, sociologists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the phenomenon in the United States, and historians and political psychologists who do study the United States have limited their focus to specific forms of nationalist sentiment: ethnocultural or civic nationalism, patriotism, or national pride. This article in...

Non-Iranian shu'ubiyya movements in early Islamic centuries

The Iranian Shuchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))ubiyyah was large-scale and diverse movement, but the Shuchr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))ubiyya movements in the Islamic world was not limited to the Iranians. The Umayyad caliphate focused on the Arab element in political, social, and economic affairs, and it was caused dissatisfaction among other ...

Explaining Movements in the Labor Share1

In this paper we study the evolution of the labor share in the OECD since 1970. We show it is essentially related to the capital-output ratio; that this relationship is shifted by factors like the price of imported materials or the skill mix; and that discrepancies between the marginal product of labor and the real wage (due to, e.g., product market power, union bargaining, and labor adjustment...

feminism and women’s literature in early Jamaican nationalism

This essay analyzes the prominent role played by first wave feminism and by women writers between 1898-1903 as the Jamaica Times articulated a broad-based, middle class nationalism and launched a campaign to establish a Jamaican national literature. Largely overlooked, this archival material is significant because it suggests a subtle yet significant modification of anglophone Caribbean feminis...

Cyclical Movements along the Labor Supply Function