{"product_id":"our-community-at-winchester-the-city-and-its-workers-at-new-havens-gun-factory-9781732180154","title":"Our Community at Winchester: The City and Its Workers at New Haven's Gun Factory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Community at Winchester: The City and its Workers at New Haven's Gun Factory\u003c\/em\u003e is based on an exhibit produced by the Greater New Haven Labor History Association in 2013 about workers and the community they created at the Winchester Repeating Arms plant in New Haven, Connecticut, throughout the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e century. Material has been added to the book based on new research. Some of the original information has been revised and\/or expanded upon for clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book traces the workers' long struggle to form a union as they were repeatedly met by powerful management intransigence and resistance. It follows the even greater challenges they faced as the company tried to break strikes, downsized, moved key operations out of New Haven, and repeatedly threatened to close if union members did not offer concessions. It examines the relationship between the City of New Haven and the changing corporate entities that operated the plant as loans and agreements based on guaranteed levels of employment repeatedly had to be amended or abrogated. Finally, it looks at the new \"face of New Haven\" in the 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century as exemplified by Winchester Lofts and the companies now occupying Science Park where the factory buildings once stood. The book incorporates 18 interviews with former Winchester employees or their family members that reveal the mixed emotions that many had about their workplace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCavanagh, Joan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Joan Cavanagh (author) is the former director of the Greater New Haven Labor History Association. She is an archivist, historical researcher, writer and longtime peace and justice activist who has lived in New Haven, CT, since 1977.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCriscola, Jeanne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - As a designer\/educator, Jeanne Criscola exploits their intersections. She collaborates with foundations and organizations on social justice projects through her design practice, Criscola Design-and with authors on cultural production multiples with the imprint Useless Press and OctoberWorks. In 2016, Jeanne founded the Ely Center of Contemporary Art to recharge its legacy as a public art center in New Haven, CT. She co-founded Else Foundation, a global consortium publishing Else, an occasional peer-reviewed journal of creative research initiatives in experimental and alternative works, projects, and thematic research. Her artworks take the form of the book, drawing, moving image, installation, generative-art, and performance. Jeanne's most high-profile and award-winning projects are the books she created for the Soros Foundation with one in the Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Collection at MoMA. Her recent book, A Mouth Full: The Re-Cookbook, takes the archetypal cookbook beyond images of food and recipes that make your mouth water. It's a prototype for rethinking what a cookbook evokes and what it can become-a place where the mind can wander through memories of food, recipes, people, and places that make us who we are. Criscola is an Associate Professor Central Connecticut State University teaching Graphic + Information Design. For a portfolio of selected work, visit www.criscoladesign.com.","brand":"Octoberworks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378242654482,"sku":"9781732180154","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_050a3c38-ce0c-4b77-89af-3904f48f9bce.jpg?v=1728644026","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-community-at-winchester-the-city-and-its-workers-at-new-havens-gun-factory-9781732180154","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}