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  • A Common Thread

    Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry

    by Beth English ...
    With important ramifications for studies relating to industrialization and the impact of globalization, A Common Thread examines the relocation of the New England textile industry to the piedmont South between 1880 and 1959. Through the example of the Massachusetts-based Dwight Manufacturing Company, the book provides an informative historic reference point to current debates about the continuous ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Global Women's Work

    Perspectives on Gender and Work in the Global Economy

    Edited by Beth English, Mary E. Frederickson, Olga Sanmiguel-Valderrama ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism.The book ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Virginia Women

    Their Lives and Times, Volume 2

    by Anna Berkes, Warren Hofstra, Jodi Koste, Pamela Matthews, Amy Feely Morsman, Jennifer Ritterhouse, Megan Shockley, Amy Tillerson-Brown, Ray Bonis, Arica L. Coleman, Beth English, Caroline E. Janney, Catherine Jones, Ann McCleary, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Antoinette G. van Zelm ...
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    This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the transition from slavery to freedom in the period following the Civil War through the struggle to secure rights for gay and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Land of Promise

    An Economic History of the United States

    by Michael Lind ...
    Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam ... Read more

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  • Clashing Over Commerce

    A History of US Trade Policy

    by Douglas A. Irwin ...
    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year: "Tells the history of American trade policy . . . [A] grand narrative [that] also debunks trade-policy myths." — EconomistShould the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such ... Read more

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  • The Price of Democracy

    The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History

    by Vanessa S. Williamson ...
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  • A History of America in Ten Strikes

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  • Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement

    by Jack M. Bloom ...
    Revised and updated: the award-winning historical analysis of the civil rights movement examining the interplay of race and class in the American South.In Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist Jack M. Bloom explains what the civil rights movement was about, why it was successful, and why it fell short of some of its objectives. With a unique sociohistorical analysis, he argues ... Read more

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  • American Tax Resisters

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    “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled ... Read more

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  • The Movement

    The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

    by Thomas C. Holt ...
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  • e-Pedia: United States Presidential Election

    The election of the President and Vice President of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a slate of members of the U.S

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    This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The election of the President and Vice President of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a set of members of the U.S. Electoral College. These electors then cast direct votes for the President and Vice President. If both votes result in an absolute ... Read more

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