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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice by Fernando Gapasin 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) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments 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) Available February 2010 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Learning To Labor : How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (77 Edition) by Paul Willis Publisher Comments Hailed by the "New Society" as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies.... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice by Bill Fletcher, Jr. 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 $50.25 Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement by Miriam Pawel Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century by Randy Shaw Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Revolt on Goose Island by Kari Lydersen Synopsis 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) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Working Class in American History) by Shelton Stromquist Publisher Comments How the Cold War affected local-level union politics... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters by Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants by David Bacon Publisher Comments For two decades veteran photojournalist David Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People Bacon explores the human side of globalization, exposing the many ways it uproots people in Latin... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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South End Press Classics #1: Strike! 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: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found by Don J Snyder Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 (Working Class in American History) by Paul Michel Taillon Publisher Comments This engaging study provides an account of the independent railroad brotherhoods from the period of their formation in the 1860s and '70s to the consolidation of their power on the eve of World War I. By commanding the attention of U.S. presidents and... (read more) Your price: $30.75 New - Trade Paper
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Three Strikes : Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (01 Edition) by Howard Zinn Publisher Comments 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) List Price $21.50 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Corrosion of Character : the Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (98 Edition) by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments 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) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Cultures of Solidarity : Consciousness, Action and Contemporary American Workers (88 Edition) by Rick Fantasia Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics by Linda Chavez Publisher Comments “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) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.25 Used - Hardcover
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Love the Work, Hate the Job: Why America's Best Workers Are Unhappier Than Ever by David Kusnet Publisher Comments 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) Your price: $25.95 New - Hardcover
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