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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice
by Fernando Gapasin
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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)
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
by Studs Terkel
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Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as... ( read more)
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The Lexicon of Labor: More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America
by R. Emmett Murray
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Since its first publication in 1998, The Lexicon of Labor found a large and appreciative following among readers who were grateful to have the vibrant, powerful language of the labor movement captured in a lively single volume. This revised and updated... ( read more)
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Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century
by Randy Shaw
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Cesar Chavez is the most prominent Latino in United States history books, and much has been written about Chavez and the United Farm Worker's heyday in the 1960s and '70s. But left untold has been their ongoing impact on 21st century social justice... ( read more)
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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice
by Bill Fletcher, Jr.
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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)
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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 California's... ( read more)
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
by David Von Drehle
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On a beautiful spring day, March 25, 1911, workers were preparing to leave the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village when a fire started. Within minutes it consumed the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the... ( read more)
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Revolt on Goose Island
by Kari Lydersen
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I think they're absolutely right... what's happening to them is reflective of what's happening across this economy. --President Barack Obama on the workers at Republic Windows & Doors December 5, 2008: It wasn't supposed to work like this. Days after... ( read more)
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Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Working Class in American History)
by Shelton Stromquist
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How the Cold War affected local-level union politics... ( read more)
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My Job, My Self : Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual (00 Edition)
by Al Gini
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Why do we work? And why do we work so obsessively? Al Gini observes that work rules, runs, and sometimes ruins our lives. But what is intriguing is that in spite of this, many of us come to love, or at least need, that which holds us captive. In this... ( read more)
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Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters
by Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher
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Cushing, a specialist in Cuban and Chinese poster art, and Drescher,
a specialist in San Francisco murals, collect a representative sample
of labor posters in the US since the early 20th century. The
arrangement is not chronological, but topical... ( read more)
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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
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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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”The New York Times Book Review Americans working lives are growing more precarious every day. Corporations... ( read more)
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Corrosion of Character : the Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (98 Edition)
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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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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Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics
by Linda Chavez
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“Simply put, the leftist labor unions have the Democrats in their pockets. And we’re all paying the price.” Linda Chavez, President George W. Bush’s original choice for Secretary of Labor and a former union official, is one of the... ( read more)
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Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever
by David Kusnet
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Why are so many of America's most educated, skilled, and committed workers angrier than ever? In Love the Work, Hate the Job, author David Kusnet follows workers through four conflicts in the trailblazing city of Seattle. At Boeing, aircraft engineers... ( read more)
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Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: the Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi (07 Edition)
by Les Leopold
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A CIA-connected labor union, an assassination attempt, a mysterious car crash, listening devices, and stolen documentseverything youd expect from the latest thriller. Yet, this was the reality of Tony Mazzocchi, the Rachel Carson of the U.S. workplace; a... ( read more)
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Muller V. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture)
by Nancy Woloch
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In 1908 the Supreme Court unanimously upheld an Oregon law that set a ten-hour limit on the workdays of women in factories and laundries. Using lawyers' briefs, arguments over single-sex protective laws, and other major court decisions, Nancy Woloch... ( read more)
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