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...that task, Gutman does not tread new ground. At least two schools of thought have developed theories of the origins of the American labor movement. At the beginning of this century John R. Commons led the Wisconsin school of labor history in creating a standard interpretational framework that, as Gutman says, even later-generation Marxists and New Left historians rarely questioned. To summarize and hopelessly simplify, Commons theorized that unions were economic institutions founded by workers in response to their loss of control over local markets due to rapid industrialization and specialization. Craftsmen's local markets and skilled laborers were...
...withheld, has camped in a Widener stall since 1958 investigating the relationship between customs and daily life for the Jews of the late Middle Ages. His scholarly interests, the rabbi said, lie in examining customs as a basis for case study and in putting customs in a typological framework...
...college Hillels during the fifties while working for his doctorate at Columbia. Now in Widener, with one book published and future writings on the way, the rabbi said he has made a "second home" in the library. "No doubt coming here helps me to preserve the ideals or the framework for the ideals I had as a child...
...believe that communisms, Communist parties and socialist societies can be different, within the framework of a common origin. Between Peking and Belgrade and Havana, for example, there are already great differences! As for our own experience-thanks above all to the unity policy we have always followed-the Italian Communist Party has been able to establish great strength in a country of considerable industrial and economic advancement and with a particular history and tradition. None of the present socialist countries have a democratic tradition, with the exception of Czechoslovakia...
...values of individuals, the country and the University. Now, I question what I'm doing and why I'm doing it more. I have a greater perception of government and society, and I learned about the interrelationship between government and society. The period leaves you with a framework with which to judge government, as well as a lingering and vivid historical example of how policy is made and skepticism of what government officials say," Goldsmith said...