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On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-class Women During the Depression (07 Edition)
On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-class Women During the Depression (07 Edition)
by Mary Triece
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On the Picket Line uncovers the voices of working-class women, particularly those active in the Communist Party, U.S.A., in order to examine how these individuals confronted the tensions between their roles as workers, wives, mothers, and consumers... (read more)

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Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila
Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila
by Sandy Polishuk
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Sandy Polishuk's Sticking to the Union is the best kind of oral history, bringing to life a person and an era quickly passing out of reach. A grassroots tour through twentieth-century radical history, western history, and women's history, it is supported... (read more)

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Contemporary Labor Economics (9TH 10 Edition)
Contemporary Labor Economics (9TH 10 Edition)
by Mcconnell
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Contemporary Labor Economics, 9e presents the "new" labor economics in a readable and logical fashion. The authors focus in this edition is clearly on labor economics as an applied field of micro and macro theory. This volume is based on the assumption... (read more)

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South End Press Classics #1: Strike!
South End Press Classics #1: Strike!
by Jeremy Brecher
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"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)

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The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found
by Don J Snyder
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Snyder's account of temporarily losing his way in life presents a heartrending and inspiring memoir that "confronts the not-so-secret fear that haunts every American who works for a living" ("Atlanta Journal-Constitution"). Author pubilcity. .... (read more)

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Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica
Higglers in Kingston: Women's Informal Work in Jamaica
by Winnifred Brown-glaude
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Navigating a Caribbean economy, hidden in plain... (read more)

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End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988 (Pitt Latin American)
End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988 (Pitt Latin American)
by Anthony W. Pereira
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The rural labor movement played a surprisingly active role in Brazil's transition to democracy in the 1980s. While in most Latin American countries rural labor was conspicuously marginal, in Brazil, an expanded, secularized, and centralized movement... (read more)

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Mediation Career Guide: A Strategic Approach to Building a Successful Practice
Mediation Career Guide: A Strategic Approach to Building a Successful Practice
by Forrest S. Mosten
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In this definitive guide, Forrest Mosten-an internationally recognized mediation expert-helps would-be mediators answer the critical question "Do I have the values, skills, personality, and commitment necessary to mediate?" Step-by-step, Mosten helps... (read more)

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Working for Justice (10 Edition)
Working for Justice (10 Edition)
by Ruth Milkman
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The volume emerged from an intensive two-year collaboration between scholars of sociology at the University of California and activists working to advance the interests of low-wage workers there in Los Angeles. They describe such aspects as organizing... (read more)

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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
by Miriam Pawel
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The rise, fall, and legacy of the inspirational United Farm Workers movement, and the untold story of iconic community organizer Cesar Chavez. A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished Californias... (read more)

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Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism
Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism
by Paul Le Blanc
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Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism focuses on the history of U.S. labor with an emphasis on radical currents, which have been essential elements in the working-class movement from the mid nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.... (read more)

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Moral Underground (09 Edition)
Moral Underground (09 Edition)
by Lisa Dodson
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Called a “fascinating exploration of economic civil disobedience” by Publishers Weekly, Lisa Dodsons stunning book The Moral Underground features stories of middle-class managers and professionals who refuse to be complicit in an economy that... (read more)

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There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America
by Philip Dray
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From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day. From the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to the triumph of... (read more)

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Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present
Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present
by Dario Azzellini
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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)

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Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy
Breaks in the Chain: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy
by Paul Apostolidis
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In Breaks in the Chain, Paul Apostolidis investigates the personal life stories of a group of Mexican immigrant meatpackers who are at once typical and extraordinary. After crossing the border clandestinely and navigating the treacherous world of the... (read more)

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The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett
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In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . . . has concentrated into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives, bakers, a... (read more)

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Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement (09 Edition)
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement (09 Edition)
by Marshall Ganz
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Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Since the 1900s, large-scale agricultural enterprises relied on migrant labor--a cheap... (read more)

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Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement
Labor Pains: Inside America's New Union Movement
by Suzan Erem
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Labor Pains is an insider's account of the struggle to rebuild a vibrant and powerful trade union movement in the United States. It takes as its starting point the daily experience of a union organizer, and brings that experience to life. It enables us... (read more)

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Cultures of Solidarity : Consciousness, Action and Contemporary American Workers (88 Edition)
Cultures of Solidarity : Consciousness, Action and Contemporary American Workers (88 Edition)
by Rick Fantasia
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A commonplace assumption about American workers is that they lack class consciousness. This perception has baffled social scientists, demoralized activists, and generated a significant literature on American exceptionalism. In this provocative book, a... (read more)

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The Big Red Songbook: 250-Plus Iww Songs
The Big Red Songbook: 250-Plus Iww Songs
by Archie Green
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This is indeed an incredible endeavor. For sure the most comprehensive collection of rebel workers' songs and poems ever compiled in English. It includes ALL the songs that appeared in the IWW's celebrated "little red songbook" from 1909 through 1973... (read more)

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