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Working stiffs
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Michael L Carlebach |
"The tintype, patented in 1856, was a cheap, fast, easy-to-make, practically indestructible type of photograph that became enormously popular among the working class in the late nineteenth century. F… |
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Closing Time
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Joe Queenan |
A deeply funny and affecting memoir about a great escape from a childhood of povertyJoe Queenans acerbic riffs on movies, sports, books, politics, and many of the least forgivable phenomena of pop cu… |
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Boom, bust, exodus
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Chad Broughton |
"In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Gal… |
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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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Eugene V. Debs
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Steve Max,Paul Buhle,Noah Van Sciver |
Summary:"A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs. Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped… |
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Studs Terkel's Working
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Harvey Pekar |
In the thirty-five years since Pulitzer Prize-winner Studs Terkel's Working was first published, it has captivated millions of readers with lyrical and heartbreaking accounts of how their fellow citi… |
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Scraping by
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Seth Rockman |
"Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers. All navigated the low-end labor market in post-revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Ro… |
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Manufacturing Suburbs
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Robert Lewis |
Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for… |
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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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