Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America (Gender & American Culture)
by Stephen H. Norwood


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In the first systematic study of anti-unionism and strikebreaking in the U.S., Norwood traces the history of violence between strikers and the mercenary forces (whose diverse ranks included college students, African Americans, the unemployed, and... (read more)

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Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective
by Daniel Bender


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For over a century, the sweatshop has evoked outrage and moral repugnance. Once cast as a type of dangerous and immoral garment factory brought to American shores by European immigrants, today the sweatshop is reviled as emblematic of the abuses of an... (read more)

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Coalitions Across the Class Divide (00 Edition)
by Fred Rose


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Too often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peace or protecting the environment. How do we create an economy where both the process and product of work serve life-sustaining goals? Coalitions across the... (read more)

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Fire at the Triangle Factory (On My Own History)
by Holly Littlefield


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Two fourteen-year-old girls, sewing machine operators at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, are caught in the famous Triangle fire of 1911.... (read more)

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Autobiography of Mother Jones
by Mary Harris Jones


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Widowed at the age of 30 when her husband and four young children died during a yellow fever epidemic, Jones spoke tirelessly and effectively throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries on behalf of workers' rights and unionists, and played a... (read more)

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Low Pay, High Profile : Global Push for Fair Labor (04 Edition)
by Andrew Ross


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While critics have decried anti-globalization as an aimless - and endless - assortment of causes, the fight for fair labor is arguably the movement's greatest success. The industrial sweatshop has become a byword for corporate-led globalization; the... (read more)

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Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market
by Paul Osterman


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A study of the changing face of the American labor market.... (read more)

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich




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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... (read more)

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