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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich  
Publisher Comments The New York Times bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Nickel and Dimed has already become a classic of undercover reportage.Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join...
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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice
by Fernando Gapasin Publisher Comments The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor'...
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Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever
by David Kusnet Publisher Comments Praise for Love the Work, Hate the Job With energy, fine reporting, and a sure grasp of the realities of people's working lives, David Kusnet has written one of the most important studies of how people do their jobs since Daniel Bell's Work and Its...
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The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
by Alexandra Harney Publisher Comments A landmark eyewitness expos of how China's factory economy competes for Western business by selling out its workers, its environment, and its future In The China Price, acclaimed Financial Times correspondent Alex Harney uncovers the truth about how...
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Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class and What We Can Do about It
by Hartman Publisher Comments The American middle class is on its deathbed. People who put in a solid day's work can no longer afford to buy a house, send their kids to college, or even get sick. If you’re not a CEO, you’re probably screwed. As Air...
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The Union Steward's Complete Guide: A Survival Manual
by David (edt) Prosten Publisher Comments The first edition of this book, published in 1997, quickly became the workplace bible for workplace union activists across North America, selling nearly 45,000 copies. This new, second edition, updates the original book and adds new material on workplace...
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The Union Member's Complete Guide: Everything You Want--And Need--To Know about Working Union
by Michael Mauer Publisher Comments An easy-to-read, thorough explanation of what unions are, how they work, and the rights and responsibilities of membership....
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The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi
by Les Leopold Publisher Comments In this paramount biography of the late Tony Mazzocchi, author and labor expert Leopold recounts the life of the former Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union leader and his struggle to address the disgraceful toxic exposure of tens of thousands of...
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The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans
by Beth Shulman Publisher Comments The book Newsweek's Anna Quindlen said should be required reading for every presidential candidate and member of Congress. Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed The Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy...
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U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below
by Kim Moody Publisher Comments The finest historian of the contemporary labor movement uncovers the secrets of its collapse and revival. "U. S. Labor in Trouble and Transition" tells the story of union decline in America and of the split in the labor movement it led to, following...
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Bait and Switch
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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Unfinished Struggle : Turning Points in American Labor, 1877-present (99 Edition)
by Steve Babson Publisher Comments Labor scholar and activist Steve Babson's dramatic narrative examines the numerous attempts to organize workers from the Great Uprising of 1877 to the "sitdown" strikes of the 1930s to the present day....
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Working Poor : Invisible in America (04 Edition)
by David K. Shipler
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and...
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The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America
by R. Emmett Murray Publisher Comments A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore. "For close to two centuries, we in the American labor movement have spoken our own language. It is a rich idiom, laden with humor and barbs, heady with...
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Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
by Larry Tye Publisher Comments Drawing on extensive interviews with dozens of porters and their descendants, Tye reconstructs the complicated world of the Pullman porter and the vital cultural, political, and economic roles they played as forerunners of the modern black middle class....
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Why Unions Matter
by Michael Yates Publisher Comments "A comprehensive, readable introduction to the history, structure, functioning, and yes, the problems of U.S. unions. For labor and political activists just coming on the scene or veterans looking for that missing overview, this is the best place to...
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Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us
by Holly Sklar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242)....
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Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture (Working Class in American History)
by Lawrence Richards Publisher Comments Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture confronts one of the most vexing questions with which labor activists and labor academics struggle: why is there so much opposition to organized labor in the United States? Scholars often point to...
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Framed!: Labor and the Corporate Media
by Christopher R. Martin Publisher Comments Christopher R. Martin argues that the mainstream news media (and the large corporations behind them) put the labor movement in a bad light even while avoiding the appearance of bias. Martin has found that the news media construct "common ground...
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Selling Women Short : Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights At Wal-mart (04 Edition)
by Liza Featherstone Publisher Comments On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class...
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