Seeking fellow panelists for a panel on strikebreaking and/or using digital scholarship tools to map labor migrations

[bjbu...@gmail.com]

Dear all, 

I'm wondering if there are others doing work on migratory strikebreakers, and/or using digital scholarship tools to map or mine or visualize worker migrations. Is there a panel here?

My work is a project to map migratory strikebreakers in the printing trades in the 1950s/1960s using visualization and mapping tools. My work focuses on the role of male and female strikebreakers who traveled from strike to strike, often at the direction of "rat herders" and employer associations. The intersection of gender and technology, and technology and shop floor culture, is part of this story, but I argue that  mobility and kinship patterns become the defining characteristics of this "other labor community." 

Please respond to the site if interested in putting together a panel.

Bridget Burke

University of Oklahoma

[heidi...@gmail.com]

Hi Bridget,

I'm working on some maps/visualizations of African American rural industrial worker and sharecropper migration from the Deep South to the Missouri Delta.  I have data in Google Maps and am moving it into other mapping platforms like ArcGIS online.  Taken together, they show the shift from rural industrial migration to farm migration as land was cleared and turned to cotton production.  They also show the trajectory of rural migration from Mississippi to AR to MO after WWI, which complicates the south to north, rural-urban narrative. 

Heidi Dodson