Bøger af Sarah Watts

This book is based on the truths of the authors life. With the grace of God, she is still here. This book is based on the deepest, darkest, and most intimate moments of her life and how having faith and strength got her through it all. This story is told through memories, flash backs, and a summary of deep-set poems. Sarah is a talented writer and she recreates every moment as if you were right there with her. When Sarah decided she was no longer going to be a victim to her past she set off to write her accounts of her past, accounts that broke her and built her. She always told herself that she would share her part of her life story in order to help those in the world who are facing what she went through and cannot see a way through.'When the saltiness has lost its salted flavor, how bland the taste of affection, how empty the arms of the embracer, how cold the heart of the living and abandoned is the one involved. How dare the mind retaliate and run from the righteous. Prudence brought her near but evil snatched her away into the darkness of a weak settlement. She gave in and caved into a mindless battle for the simple. She is yet broken and never to be repaired she constantly runs from hell's call into a window of love's widows... She is shut out from fear the only way out is through.'-Watts

Historians now mark the years between 1880 and 1915 as the beginning of mass culture in the United States and its consolidation under the ideals and values of private corporations. In this study, Sarah Lyons Watts contends that modern American attitudes toward the relationship between labor and capital, as well toward the place industrial labor was to occupy in the corporate state, coalesced in the debates in popular, business, and professional literature in the decades around the turn of the century. She illustrates how the magnitude and significance of changes in the transmission of cultural authority made these years critical in the evolution of industrialists' labor ideas.Following a detailed introduction that provides an overview of the period and a discussion of cultural hegemony, Watts focuses on three case studies: the Pullman strike, an ideological struggle in which public opinion figured not just in the outcome of the strike, but in the definition of labor's place in the corporate order; modern management, which sought to replace workers' traditional definitions with its own and transform the ethos of modern factory work; and the National Association of Manufacturers' anti-union campaign. These case studies demonstrate how nationwide organizations of businessmen met the charges against concentrated capital made by unionists and reformers, advancing arguments that linked the moral value of capital to civic services, national honor, and progress. A concluding chapter, recounting the dramatic social reorganization that was the ultimate product of this period, and a selected bibliography, complete the work. This book will be a useful reference for courses in American, business, social, and labor history, as well as an important resource for public and academic libraries.