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Paper 7 — The Insurgent City, Reconsidered: Radical Labor and Its Costs, 1899–1931

Posted on July 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction Ybor City is famous, above all, for its labor militancy. In the standard telling it is a heroic place—a stronghold of anarchists and socialists, a city of strikes, a Latin island of working-class radicalism defying the bosses and the … Continue reading →

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Paper 6 — Mutual Aid Without the State: The Immigrant Societies of Ybor City, 1887–1930s

Posted on July 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The immigrants who built Ybor City faced the oldest and hardest problems of working-class life: sickness, injury, death, the doctor’s bill no wage could cover, the funeral no family could afford, the widow and orphan left with nothing. In … Continue reading →

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Paper 5 — Making Ybor City: The Cigar Migration and the Birth of an Immigrant Working Class, 1880s–1900

Posted on July 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction In 1885 Tampa was a small, struggling Southern town of a few thousand people, still recognizably the cracker cowtown of the previous paper. Within fifteen years it had been transformed almost beyond recognition into a booming industrial city, home … Continue reading →

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Sports Governance and Manufactured Tradition

Posted on July 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract. In the three cases already treated, a real founding was furnished—gilded, tarnished, or contested, but real. Sports governance supplies the limiting case. The amateur ideal was proclaimed as the restoration of a past that never existed in the form … Continue reading →

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The Rhinestone and the Reed: Reputation, Craft, and the Unwritten Session History of Kenneth Gorelick: A White Paper on the Gap Between Kenny G’s Popular Image and His Documented Standing as an R&B Sideman, With a Proposed Program for a Complete Session History

Posted on July 6, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Few American instrumentalists occupy a stranger position in public memory than Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, known since the early 1980s as Kenny G. To the general listener and to a large part of the critical establishment, the name functions as … Continue reading →

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Streets So Lonely

Posted on June 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

When my mother and I were still on our way to Belize in Houston, we talked to someone who referred to Belize City as the armpit of Belize and commented on his preference for staying in a small town or … Continue reading →

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The Sabbath They Keep and the Sabbath They Broke: Irony, Liability, and Religious Freedom in EEOC v. Hatch Trick, Inc.

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary In May 2026 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued an Austin-area Chick-fil-A franchisee, Hatch Trick, Inc., alleging that the operator fired a manager rather than continue accommodating her seventh-day Sabbath observance. The employee, Laurel Torode, is a … Continue reading →

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Paper 6 — Antitrust Exposure and the Cartel Paradox

Posted on May 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Paper Five established that the new enforcement body lacks legitimacy from any of its three possible sources and that the deficit could be closed only by statute or by bargaining with a genuine representative of the athletes. This paper … Continue reading →

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Engagement with Research-Governing Institutions: How Neglect Studies Works With the Bodies Whose Decisions It Studies

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the field’s engagement with the institutions whose decisions shape the distribution of scholarly attention: funding agencies, learned societies, journals, university administrations, government science advisory bodies, and international scientific organizations. The engagement is unavoidable because the … Continue reading →

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Workforce and Training Pipeline: Building the Scholarly Community for Neglect Studies

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the workforce that neglect studies will require to function as a mature field. The premise is that institutional infrastructure (Paper 3), funding (Paper 4), and data resources (Paper 5) are necessary conditions for the field … Continue reading →

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