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  • The Gas Station Chronicles

    The Gas Station ChroniclesBy: Henry FriedmanThe Gas Station Chronicles contains true stories from Henry Friedman’s time of working at a gas station. Friedman gives a look into the changing times as rural New York met challenges of being in the NYC watershed. This gas station at the time was one of the last full-service stations in the area and now no longer exists. Located in a mostly farming ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Industrial Conflict

    Lessons from Ford

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Relations
    The Dynamics of Industrial Conflict (1980) focuses on the workings of industrial relations in the British motor industry, presenting the first joint retrospective analysis of industrial relations in a major multinational. The book includes a closely documented account of the Ford Sewing Machinists’ strike for equal pay and tells the inside story of that dispute, analysing its impact on the coming ... Read more

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  • I'm No Hero

    Journeys of a Holocaust Survivor

    Series series Samuel and Althea Stroum Books
    Henry Friedman was robbed of his adolescence by the monstrous evil that annihilated millions of European Jews and changed forever the lives of those who survived. When the Nazis overran their home town near the Polish-Ukrainian border, the Friedman family was saved by Ukrainian Christians who had worked at their farm. Henry, his mother, his younger brother, and a young schoolteacher—who had been ... Read more

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