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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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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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... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America by Joe Burns Publisher Comments If the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing different politicians, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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There Is Power in a Union (10 Edition) by Philip Dray Publisher Comments From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Solidarity Divided (08 Edition) by Bill Fletcher 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'... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Anthropology of Labor Unions by E. Paul (edt) Durrenberger Publisher Comments The Anthropology of Labor Unions presents ethnographic data and analysis in eight case studies from several very diverse industries. It covers a wide range of topics, from the role of women and community in strikes to the importance of place in... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? by Steve Early Publisher Comments BETWEEN 2008 AND 2010, the progressive wing of the U.S. labor movement tore itself apart in a series of internecine struggles. More than $140 million was expended, by all sides, on organizing conflicts that tarnished union reputations and undermined the... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Right to Be Lazy: Essays by Paul Lafargue by Paul Lafargue Publisher Comments At once a masterpiece of critical theory and rip-roaring radical humor, this is one of the most spirited attacks on the notion of the "work ethic" ever to be published. Featuring a revised edition of the original English translation by Charles Hope Kerr,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy by Lisa Dodson Publisher Comments "I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make." —Supervisor of a Fast-food Pizza Place Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Arab Employment in Israel: The Quest for Equal Employment Opportunity by Benjamin W. Wolkinson Publisher Comments Although in the 1960s and mid-1970s scholars began to question the ability of Israeli Arabs to find equal employment opportunities, there has been no systematic study of employment discrimination against Arabs. Based on demographic data and fieldwork in... (read more) Your price: $158.95 New - Hardcover
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Strike! (Rev 97 Edition) by Jeremy Brecher Publisher Comments "An exciting history of American labor". -- The New York Times Book Review "New and Recommended" List "Splendid. Clearly the best single-volume summary yet published of American general strikes". -- Washington Post "A magnificent book. I hope it will... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia by Wendy Z Goldman Publisher Comments In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were telescoped into a mere decade. The... (read more) List Price $38.25 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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NAFTA and the Politics of Labor Transnationalism (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) by Tamara Kay Publisher Comments When NAFTA went into effect in 1994, many feared it would intensify animosity among North American unions, lead to the scapegoating of Mexican workers and immigrants, and eclipse any possibility for cross-border labor cooperation. But far from polarizing... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, Updated with a New Preface by Kevin Bales Publisher Comments Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon by William M Adler Publisher Comments In 1914, Joe Hill, the prolific songwriter for the Industrial Workers of the World (also known as the Wobblies), was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. In the first major biography of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Retirement Heist: How Companies Plunder and Profit from the Nest Eggs of American Workers by Ellen Schultz Publisher Comments "'As far as I can determine there is only one solution [to the CEO's demand to save more money]', the HR representative wrote to her superiors. 'That would be the death of all existing retirees.'" It's no secret that hundreds of companies have... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present by Immanuel Ness Publisher Comments From the dawning of the industrial epoch, wage earners have organized themselves into unions, fought bitter strikes, and gone so far as to challenge the very premises of the system by creating institutions of democratic self-management aimed at... (read more) Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith Publisher Comments Workers in the United States have a rich tradition of fighting back and achieving gains previously thought unthinkable, from the weekend, to health care, to the right to even form a union. But in 2005, the number of workers organized in unions reached a... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies by Kate Bronfenbrenner Publisher Comments At a time when the American labor movement is mobilizing for a major resurgence through new organizing, here, at last, is a book about research on union organizing strategies. Previous studies have focused on factors contributing to union decline... (read more) Your price: $30.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K Shipler 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 suggestions... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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