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Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH3191
Publisher
Central Trades and Labor Assembly of Syracuse, N.Y
Pub. Date
1907.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations
Language
English
45) Unions before the bar: historic trials showing the evolution of labor rights in the United States
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1950]
Edition
[first edition].
Physical Desc
x, 371 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
46) 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...
48) Service
Author
Publisher
The Union
Pub. Date
[between 1950 and 1959?]
Physical Desc
5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 397 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent comes an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be re-empowered.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is labor's day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book ... labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived--but different--labor movement is now more relevant than ever in our increasingly unequal society. The inequality reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the workplace is more authoritarian than ever, and we have even less of a say over our conditions...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
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