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New Approaches to Rhetoric provides fresh perspectives on the study of rhetoric and its ability to affect change in today's society. Although traditional approaches (e.g., neo-Aristotelian) to the study of rhetoric have utility for the twenty-first century, communication in a complex, mass-mediated postmodern age calls for new critical approaches. The contributors of this volume, including James Darsey, Kathryn M. Olson and G. Thomas Goodnight, George Cheney, Dana Cloud, and Barry Brummett, explore possibilities for bridging rhetorical studies of the past with rhetorical studies of the future. The original essays invite students to join rhetorical theorists and critics in an ongoing dialogue concerning what it means to study communication in a postmodern world. New Approaches to Rhetoric is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and in Political Communication in departments of Communication, English, and Political Science. This book is suitable for use as either a primary or supplemental course text and will be invaluable as a general reference for scholars of rhetoric, social movements, and public sphere studies.
Fighting Words: Labor and the Limits of Symbolic Intervention at Staley, 1993–1996
Fighting Words: Labor and the Limits of Symbolic Intervention at Staley, 1993–1996
During the spring of 1993, workers at Staley Manufacturing in Decatur, Illinois, were embattled. They had been storing up grievances regarding wages and benefits as well as the company's plan to outsource—that is, to hire low-wage, nonunion workers at other plants to perform some of the corn sweetener plant's work. In addition, Staley required its employees to work mandatory, rotating 12-hour shifts. None of these features of workers' daily lives were open to negotiation.
In response to these hardships, the members of United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) local 7837 pursued an “in-plant campaign” consisting of work slowdowns, “work-to-rule,”1 and other efforts to ...
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