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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 772 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
Author
Series
Pamphlets in American history. Labor volume L 1536
Publisher
[International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' Union of North America]
Pub. Date
[between 1940 and 1949?]
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations, diagrams ; 18 x 26 cm
Language
English
83) The intuitionist
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A black female elevator inspector must prove that her method of inspection by intuition, as opposed to visual observation, is not at fault when an elevator in a new city building crashes.
Author
Series
The Hemlock county novels volume 4
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Marvin Miller changed major league baseball and the business of sports. Drawing on research and interviews with Miller and others, Marvin Miller, Baseball Revolutionary offers the first biography covering the pivotal labor leader's entire life and career. Baseball historian Robert F. Burk follows Miller's formative encounters with Depression-era hard times, racial and religious bigotry, and bare-knuckle Washington politics to a successful career in...
Author
Publisher
Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the union in honor of its one hundredth anniversary, looking at how it handled such issues as the 1919 strike just six years after its founding, segregation, the blacklist years, and the AIDS epidemic.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 movement as we have known it for most of the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he asserts that this death has been a long time coming--the organizing principles chosen by the labor movement at midcentury have come back to haunt the movement today....
94) The enemy within
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
1960.
Edition
[first edition].
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
The Dolans live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. Rye yearns for a steady job and a home; his older brother, Gig, dreams of a better world, fighting alongside other union men for fair pay and decent treatment. Enter Ursula the Great, a vaudeville singer who performs with a live cougar and introduces the brothers to a far more dangerous creature: a mining magnate determined to keep his wealth...
100) Blue collar
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash. Their unexpected swipe suddenly envelopes the three autoworkers...
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