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Language
English
Description
The Molly Maguires was a secret society of militant coal miners who battled their exploitation by mine owners with violence, intimidation… and sometimes murder. Based on actual events, this gripping story is a sympathetic and accurate account of the Irish-American miners’ struggle. Richard Harris (Gladiator, Camelot) plays a detective on undercover assignment for the owners, fighting his own conscience. Academy Award®–winner Sean Connery...
Author
Series
Book Apart volume no. 47
Publisher
A Book Apart
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
[First edition].
Physical Desc
1 online resource (159 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
There's a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers--designers, engineers, writers, and many others--have learned that when they stand together, they're poised to build a better version of the tech industry. They haven't stopped there: at companies from Kickstarter to Google, workers have formed unions. And you should, too. But what are unions? And why do they matter? Ethan Marcotte answers these questions through extensive research...
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Language
English
Description
Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces.
5) Gung Ho
Author
Language
English
Description
Michael Keaton stars as a wheeler-dealer who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Keaton persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. It isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their new Japanese bosses, setting the stage for a comic clash of cultures. The day is saved when it turns out...
Author
Publisher
Wilson-Epes Printing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 36 pages).
Language
English
Description
The question presented is whether an agreement between a union and an employer, where the employer facilitates the union's organization of its employees and the union agrees not to strike or pressure the employer, violates the Labor Management Relations Act.
Author
Series
Publisher
[Jenner & Block LLP?]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (viii, 47 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether a union 'agency shop' arrangement requiring 'fair share' payments by non-union members violates the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and assembly.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book chronicles Major League Baseball's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects. It highlights earlier labor struggles and the roles performed by individuals from John Montgomery Ward, David Fultz and Robert Murphy to Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith, Jim "Catfish" Hunter and Donald Fehr. Also examined are the ballplayers' own organizations, from the Players League of the early 1890s to the still potent Major League Baseball Players Association...
19) Granny woman
Author
Series
Appalachian journey volume 5
Publisher
Spring Creek Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Bessie and Fletcher Elliott lose all their money when their bank fails at the beginning of the Great Depression, Fletch is forced to seek employment elsewhere in order to sustain their struggling farm on Stone Mountain, North Carolina. Fletch's brothers Jim and Tom, working in a coal mine in Beacham, West Virginia, convince Fletch that there is money to be made as a miner, so he and Bessie move to Beacham in hopes of a temporary measure that...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book addresses how a group of low-wage and primarily African American women workers found an industrial and interracial union in the 1930s and why their gender and race interests were subordinated within that union in the 1940s. Carson argues that race and gender explain, at every turn, the choices, challenges and opportunities for African American and White women laundry workers. The women's relationship to the work and to the union movement...
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