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Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below Poor Workers' Unions: Rebuilding Labor from Below
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... (read more)
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Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart 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... (read more)
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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) 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... (read more)
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Cesar: Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Cesar: Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can!
by Carmen T 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... (read more)
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Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights

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Holding the Line : Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, With New Introduction ((Rev)96 Edition) Holding the Line : Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, With New Introduction ((Rev)96 Edition)
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-199) and index.... (read more)
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Why Unions Matter Why Unions Matter
by Michael 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... (read more)
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Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us 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).... (read more)
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Workers' Councils Workers' Councils
by Anton Pannekoek
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Cultural Writing. What the working class strives for in its struggle, liberty and security, to be master of its own life, is only possible through control of the means of production. State socialism is not control of the means of production by the... (read more)
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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,... (read more)
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