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Labor and the American left Labor and the American left Mel van Elteren "This book explores relations between organized labor and left-wing parties and movements in America at crucial junctures from the 1870s to the present. Providing fresh insight into current political… OL16298621W
What Unions No Longer Do What Unions No Longer Do 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… OL17355738W
Why unions matter Why unions matter Michael Yates In this new edition the author shows why unions still matter. Unions mean better pay, benefits, and working conditions for their members; they force employers to treat employees with dignity and resp… OL1854490W
Chronology of Labor in the United States Chronology of Labor in the United States Russell O. Wright "Organized labor did not become a reality in the United States until a ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1842 made it legal to form unions. The first successful one was the International T… OL1886799W
Brass Valley Brass Valley Jeremy Brecher,Jerry Lombardi,Jan Stackhouse For too many years American workers have been cut off from their own roots. When children go to school, they learn little about the people who work in factories and offices, their movements and their… OL1894630W
Forging a Common Bond Forging a Common Bond Timothy J. Minchin "Timothy J. Minchin studies one of the longest labor disputes in American history, a lockout involving the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers' International Union and BASF, a German-based chemical man… OL1926525W
Immigrant girl, radical woman Immigrant girl, radical woman Matilda Rabinowitz Matilda Rabinowitz's illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. She describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual a… OL19723691W
Drawing the line Drawing the line Tom Sito As cartoons and animated features became an increasingly important part of the entertainment business, the production of cartoons industrialized to meet growing demands for the new global media. Arti… OL19844076W
The death and life of American labor The death and life of American labor 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 … OL19990282W
From mission to microchip From mission to microchip 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… OL20030123W
Transformations of Trade Unionism Transformations of Trade Unionism Ad Knotter The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers? resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. … OL20928788W
The wobblies in their heyday The wobblies in their heyday 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… OL23186038W
The Economics of the Trade Union The Economics of the Trade Union Alison L. Booth This book analyses the crucial features of unionised labour markets. The models in the book refer to labour contracts between unions and management, but the method of analysis is also applicable to n… OL3962328W
Work and Community in the Jungle Work and Community in the Jungle James R. Barrett Chicago's packinghouse workers were not the hopeless creatures depicted by Upton Sinclair in "The Jungle", but active agents in the early twentieth century transformation that swept urban industrial … OL5268850W
Bread and Roses Bread and Roses 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… OL78973W
State of the Unions State of the Unions 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… OL9306985W