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The shoemaker
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Ann Heinrichs |
"Explore the life of a colonial shoemaker and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher. |
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Crucible of freedom
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Eric Leif Davin |
Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-def… |
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Handbook of U.S. labor statistics
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Eva E. Jacobs,Mary Meghan Ryan |
Includes 200 tables of authoritative data on workers, industries, wages, and prices. |
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Handbook of U.S. labor statistics
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Mary Meghan Ryan |
The Handbook of Labor Statistics is recognized as an authoritative resource on the U.S. labor force. It continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor S… |
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Major problems in the history of American workers
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Nelson Lichtenstein,Eileen Boris |
xiv, 562 p. : 24 cm |
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The Lexicon of labor
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R. Emmett Murray |
From Frederick Douglass to César Chavez, from the Haymarket Riots in 1886 to the Change to Win federation formed in 2005, this classic labor lexicon provides concise, sketches of over five hundred ke… |
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The Corrosion of Character
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Richard Sennett |
In the brave new world of the "flexible" corporation, Richard Sennett observes, workers at all levels are regarded as wholly disposable, and they have responded in kind, ceasing to think in terms of … |
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The Taft-Hartley Act
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Susan Dudley Gold |
Describes the passage of the 1947 law that helped define the rights of labor and management, and describes the conditions of the labor force before and after the act. |
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The death and life of American labor
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Stanley Aronowitz |
"Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Longtime scholar of the American union movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the labor … |
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Raw deal
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Steven Hill |
"Every day, innovative entrepreneurs pioneer bold economic ideas that change the way we live and work. Companies like Google, Apple, Oracle, Facebook and Twitter aren't the only ones shaping our econ… |
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People get ready
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Robert Waterman McChesney,Nichols, John,Robert W. McChesney |
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy… |
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Handbook of U.S. labor statistics 2017
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Mary Meghan Ryan |
The Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor S… |
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American Labor Struggles and Law Histories
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Kenneth M. Casebeer |
xix, 617 pages : 26 cm |
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Slavery in White and Black
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese |
Southern slaveholders proudly pronounced themselves orthodox Christians, who accepted responsibility for the welfare of the people who worked for them. They proclaimed that their slaves enjoyed a bet… |
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From the folks who brought you the weekend
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Arthur Ben Chitty,Priscilla Murolo,Priscilla Murolo,A.B. Chitty |
Hailed in a starred Publishers Weekly review as a work of impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . . that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter, From the Folks Who Brought You … |
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Immigration, migration, and the Industrial Revolution
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Tracee Sioux |
Describes how inventions such as the cotton gin transformed America from an agricultural country to an industrial one, and led to both problems and opportunities. |
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