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Agitate! educate! organize!
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Timothy W. Drescher,Lincoln Cushing |
This book contains over 200 full-color images (from a database of over 800 posters selected from labor archives and special collections around the US) and roughly 20,000 words, plus a bibliography an… |
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Labor rising
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Richard A. Greenwald,Richard Greenwald,Daniel Katz |
"When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker threatened the collective bargaining rights of the state's public-sector employees in early 2011, the huge protests that erupted in response put the labor moveme… |
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What Unions No Longer Do
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Jake Rosenfeld |
From workers' wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post-World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fract… |
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The living wage
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Donald Stabile |
"The book reviews the history of economic ideas related to the idea of the living wage. It presents a debate between two ideologies, the moral economy and the market economy, as captured by the need … |
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Nomadland
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Jessica Bruder |
"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely … |
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Nomadland
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Jessica Bruder |
From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. Wi… |
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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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Joe Hill
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Franklin Rosemont |
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies--songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr--Joe Hill. It is a journey into the… |
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From mission to microchip
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Fred Glass |
"There is no better time than now to consider the labor history of the Golden State. While other states face declining union enrollment rates and the rollback of workers' rights, California unions ar… |
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The unemployed people's movement
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James J. Lorence |
"In Georgia during the Great Depression, jobless workers united with the urban poor, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In a collective effort that cut across race and class boundaries, they confront… |
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The wobblies in their heyday
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Eric Thomas Chester |
"During World War I, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) rose to prominence as an effective, militant union and then was destroyed by a devastating campaign of repression launched by the federa… |
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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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Confronting American Labor
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Jeffrey W. Coker |
"Confronting American Labor traces the development of the American left, from the Depression era through the Cold War, by examining four representative intellectuals who grappled with the difficult q… |
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Bread and Roses
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Milton Meltzer |
Uses original source material to portray the momentous changes that took place in American labor, industry, and trade-unionism following the Civil War. Focuses on the work environment in this early a… |
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State of the Unions
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Philip M. Dine |
From steel workers, Teamsters, and coal miners to teachers, actors, and civil servants, union members once accounted for more than one third of the American workforce. At a mere 12 percent, union mem… |
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