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The Sociological Imagination | Introduction to …

The sociological imagination is making the connection between personal challenges and larger social issues. Mills identified "troubles" (personal challenges) and "issues" (larger social challenges), also known as …Web

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'Unintended consequences': The rubber industry's toxic legacy in …

This story is published in partnership with Belt Magazine and is part of a series supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism. This story also appeared in Belt Magazine. In the winter of 1946, Perkins Pringle boarded the first leg of a 950-mile train ride from Durant, Mississippi, to Akron, Ohio—the Rubber Capital of the World.Web

Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath | US History II (OS …

Adding to these problems was the absence of President Wilson, who remained in Paris for six months, leaving the country leaderless. The result of these factors was that, rather than a celebratory transition from wartime to peace and prosperity, and ultimately the Jazz Age of the 1920s, 1919 was a tumultuous year that threatened to tear the ...Web

Kent Ravenna Record-Courier: Local News, Politics & Sports in …

Kent Ravenna Record-Courier: Local News, Politics & Sports in Kent, OH. Myles Garrett calls officiating 'travesty' in Browns win over Jaguars. Browns snap losing streak, hold on to beat Jaguars. Iconic Kent mill complex one year after fire: Here's what we know. David Bell finds 'green grass' to 'get to end zone' in Browns win. Snow likely tonight.Web

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The Decline of the US Steel Industry: Why competitiveness fell

Also the mini-mills have concentrated on relatively simple, low-value commodities (such as wire rod and concrete reinforcing bars), leaving the more complex products—in which economies of scale may be significant— to the large, integrated producers. ... Balance of payments adjustment has been a prime issue in the international monetary ...Web

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Re-imagining the Sociological Imagination:1

Mills so passionately wrote about, is very much a product of mid-twentieth century modernity. He was writing after the horrors of the two world wars and the ascendancy of "mass society." Today many of the problems that Mills diagnosed are very much still with us. However our "socioscape" has dramatically changed.Web

C. Wright Mills On the Sociological Imagination

An imagination which is encased in deadening language will be a deadened imagination. Mills identified five overarching social problems in American society: 1) Alienation; 2) Moral insensibility; 3) Threats to democracy; 4) Threats to human freedom; and 5) Conflict between bureaucratic rationality and human reason.Web

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An early World War II improved M1912 web pistol included a leather holster for the standard-issue .45. The belts continued to be worn through the Korean War, but following that conflict the Army adopted the M1956 Load Carrying Equipment (LCE) System, which saw the introduction of a new harness-suspender system that helped spread out the weight ...Web

Textile workers built unions, led strikes and and fought racism

Textile workers built unions, led major strikes and fought racism starting in the 1920s in the South's largest industry. The heaviest concentration of textile mills was in North Carolina. Charlotte was the Southern industry's center point since its inception during the post-Reconstruction era, with many factories ringing its perimeter ...Web

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The Sociology of C. Wright Mills

Mills' sociology focuses on substantive problems of modern industrial societies. He identified five overarching problems: 1) alienation; 2) moral insensibility; 3) threats to …Web

C. Wright Mills 50 Years On: The Promise and Craft of Sociology

This article takes the fiftieth anniversary of the death of American sociologist C. Wright Mills as a cue to revisit his legacy but also the value of sociology today. It argues …Web

Sociological Curiosity: Updating C. Wright Mills

This short article updates Mills' essay, closely following Mills' ideas while employing more contemporary language and …Web

Mine Exploitation: What Happens When the Fleet Has to Clear …

Marines with the Expeditionary Exploitation Unit one (EXU-1) analyze a foreign ordnance. The Navy should improve the exploitation capabilities of the EOD MCM platoons with advanced training and equipment, expand the capacity of EXU-1 to support multiple expeditionary requirements, and further integrate operational exploitation forces with the …Web

The oldest sailmaking family in America still calls

The Wm. J. Mills display at the East End Seaport Museum in Greenport. (Credit: Grant Parpan) Robert's son Bill Mills, Jamie and Bob's father, is credited with establishing the company's decades-long relationship with Boston Whaler. For more than 40 years, Wm. J. Mills & Co. had been the sole supplier of canvas for the top boat …Web

History of child labor in the United States—part 1: little children

The ad stated, "It is hoped that those citizens having a knowledge of families, having children destitute of employment, will do an act of public benefit by directing them to the institution [cotton mill]." 27 In New England, the allure of employing children in the mills was thought by one editorial writer to be so strong that it led ...Web

How Gary, Indiana Went From The Magic City To …

Following the end of World War II, American steel dominated global production, with more than 40 percent of the world's steel export coming from the United States. The mills in Indiana and Illinois were …Web

Century-old photos show the epic scale of Michigan's lumber era

A postcard featuring a lumber mill in Hart, Mich. Handwritten on the back is the following: "Hart, Mich. Sep. 8. Dear Winona, just a line Dad went in a big ditch as he went around a corner. But no ...Web

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Machining for freedom | American Machinist

Cincinnati Milacron: The Mill at war When Japan forced the issue of war with the U.S. by bombing Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, it was a stark, stunning surprise, and the nation was ill-prepared. Less so the machine-tool industry. ... Davenport has thrived in the 50-year period following WW II.Web

From World War I to Present Day: U.S. Military Dentistry

When the United States entered World War I, the U.S. Army, itself a constabulary force of less than 200,000 troops, had a dental staff of just 86 officers, a ratio of roughly one dentist for every 2,350 patients. At war's end on Nov. 11, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces had swelled to more than 4.7 million troops and the Army Dental ...Web

1940s | American Machinist

Bridgeport's turret milling machine contributed significantly to WWII efforts, and by 1948, the company had sold its 100,000th machine. R.K. LeBlond Machine Tool Co. produced gun boring lathes for the war effort. And Barnes International's solution to a manufacturing problem became an entirely new metalworking process.Web

The Wind Turbine Failures Behind Europe's Energy Crisis Are

The ongoing energy crisis in Europe has shown how nations will experience "growing pains" from a switch to renewable sources of energy including wind power, according to experts who spoke to ...Web

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Supplying the Great War | Inside Adams

The First World War not only had a profound effect on the lives of the American people, it greatly changed the US economy, over time bolstering employment and business. While preparing for war in the early twentieth century, the United States had to flex its domestic muscles and mobilize its economy for the first time.Web

Southern Labor Archives: Work n' Progress

The disputes had real consequences for workers. In Birmingham, for example, the steelworkers union engaged in an often violent raid against the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelterworkers local there. The USWA used the communist issue to turn enough white workers against Mine Mill leaders to win a representation election.Web