The author challenges the common myth that the Bread and Roses Strike was spontaneous.
The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike in Lawrence, Mass., was one of the most significant struggles in U.S. labor history due to its level of organization and collaboration across ethnic and gender lines. Thousands of largely female workers engaged in a lengthy, well-organized, and successful walkout, standing firm against an entrenched group of mill owners and their hundreds of militia and police. Workers maintained soup kitchens and nurseries for children. Meetings were simultaneously translated into nearly 30 languages. Representatives from every nationality formed a 50-person strike leadership group.
Amazon Publishing may shift their longstanding stance against allowing libraries to lend their ebooks. The company is said to be in “active discussions” with the Digital Public Library of America to alter its policies. Amazon is reportedly “testing a number of different models” and may lend books as early as 2021, with a spokesperson saying, “We believe libraries serve a critical purpose in communities across the country, and our priority is to make Amazon Publishing eBooks available in a way that ensures a viable model for authors, as well as library patrons.” Amazon is the largest publisher to unilaterally forbid digital library lending, and a recent petition has circulated asking Congress to launch an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook policies.
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Amazon has generally been reluctant to allow libraries to have access to its ebooks, preferring instead to make those available via its own Kindle ebook store. Public advocacy groups and libraries however have taken strong exception to this and are demanding easy availability of the Amazon titles via libraries to allow the public to have easy access to the information contained therein.
Fortunately for book lovers, Amazon indicated it is deliberating licensing its digital titles to libraries though any concrete development on this is yet to be seen on the ground. The Hill however did confirm the Digital Public Library of America is discussing with Amazon Publishing on this though no one knows for sure how soon we can see the content being available in public libraries.
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The reporters also will explore ways in which experts and officials have successfully addressed these issues around the country. In addition, the reporters will write about the resilience, creativity and ingenuity of people of color in the Charlotte area.
This year, WFAE is also hosting two RFA journalists with the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the Digital Public Library of America. They cover community-driven questions on local government, the census, the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 elections and more. This collaboration will end in May 2021.
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RFA is a national service program that places journalists in local news organizations to report on under-covered communities. The journalists serve at least a year with the opportunity to continue for a second year. RFA screens applicants and local news organizations select from four to five candidates.