Poor Workers' Unions : Rebuilding Labor From Below (05 Edition)
by Vanessa Tait
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"Finally, the book we've all been waiting for! With gripping tales of grassroots experiments in social justice unionism from the 1960s to the present, Vanessa Tait cracks wide open our concept of what a labor movement looks like, and shows how it can be...
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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Beth Tompkins Bates
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Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activists challenged the politics of civility traditionally embraced by old-guard leaders in favor of a more...
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Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
by Jennifer Gordon
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Jorge Bonilla is hospitalized with pneumonia from sleeping at the restaurant where he works, unable to afford rent on wages of thirty cents an hour. Domestic worker Yanira Juarez discovers she has labored for six months with no wages at all; her employer...
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Why Unions Matter (98 Edition)
by Michael D. Yates
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"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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Workers' Councils
by Anton Pannekoek
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Contemporaries across the spectrum of Left thought, from Antonio Negri to Noam Chomsky, are falling over each other to claim the mantle of Left Communism. Left Communism is the theory and practice of worker control and self-organization whose adherents...
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart
by Liza Featherstone
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On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a 52-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action...
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Cesar: Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!
by Carme Bernier Grand
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Stylized illustrations by a Caldecott Medalist accompany lyrical prose and poems in this celebration of the life of Cesar Chavez. This thoughtful and beautiful biography illuminates not only the events that made up the great labor leader's life, but also...
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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-199) and index....
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Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us
by Holly Sklar
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-242)....
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We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
by Staughton Lynd
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'We Are All Leaders' describes a kind of union qualitatively different from the bureaucratic business unions that make up the AFL-CIO today. From African American nutpickers in St. Louis, chemical and rubber workers in Akron, textile workers in the South,...
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