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Author
Series
Postcards from Pullman volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest over their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault, in this action-packed finale to the bestselling historical series.
5) Newsies
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts was a watershed moment in labor history as significant as the Haymarket bombing in Chicago and the Triangle fire in New York. In a history with the narrative drive of a novel, journalist Watson provides the first full-length account of the strike that began when textile workers stormed out of the mills on a frigid January day. Despite owners' predictions to the contrary, the walkout soon became a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The colliery village of Bellingsworth is already divided over an impending strike, so the last thing it needs is a murder, but that's exactly what it gets when a retired miner called Len Hopkins is found battered to death in his outside lavatory"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Publisher: The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fresh history of American labor and the strikes that resulted from companies' mistreatment of workers. In each chapter, labor historian Loomis ... discusses the specifics of a strike followed by a section of context about the broader issues in American society undergirding the unrest. The author begins with the women laborers in the mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, who fought terrible factory conditions, during strikes in 1834 and 1836. Refreshingly,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
"A housebound trophy housewife steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action."
12) Kids on strike!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James and teammate Emmett Sunday ignite a player's strike declaring they won't compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher. Now, with only hours until kickoff, the head coach and various power brokers must race against the clock to protect or destroy the...
Series
Criterion collection volume 610
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
In turn-of-the-twentieth-century Turin, an accident in a textile factory incites workers to stage a walkout. But it's not until they receive unexpected aid from a traveling professor that they find a voice, unite, and stand up for themselves. This historical drama by Mario Monicelli is a beautiful and moving ode to the power of the people, brimming with humor and honesty.
19) The bobbin girl
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
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