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Short History of the U.S. Working Class : From Colonial Times To the Twenty-first Century (99 Edition) Short History of the U.S. Working Class : From Colonial Times To the Twenty-first Century (99 Edition)
by Paul Le Blanc
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Le Blanc blends economic, social, intellectual, cultural, and political history into a compelling, coherent, colorful, and gripping narrative that includes the views of key figures of U.S. labor such as Cesar Chavez, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley... (read more)
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Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Haymarket) Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy (Haymarket)
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
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"[A] compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century."--Walter LaFeber, The New York Times Book... (read more)
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Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs
by Marguerite Young
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An extraordinary literary accomplishment, thirty-five years in the making, from the greatly admired author of Miss Macintosh, My Darling ("A work of stunning magnitude and beauty" --New York Times Book Review): a biography of Eugene Victor Debs, the... (read more)
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
by Frederick Douglass
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Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights (Lerner Biographies) Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights (Lerner Biographies)
by Judith Pinkerton Josephson
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Three Strikes : Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (01 Edition) Three Strikes : Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (01 Edition)
by Howard Zinn
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Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank... (read more)
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The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925
by David Montgomery
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The changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action.... (read more)
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Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
by Barbara Kingsolver
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Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress
by Debra Ginsberg
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Many people can tell horror stories about their teenage or college stints waiting tables. For Debra Ginsberg, struggling writer and single mother, waitressing has been a means of survival — and she has the scars to prove it. In Waiting: The True... (read more)
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