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  • Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike

    by Susan Grabski, Robert Forrant ...
    Series series Images of America
    Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final and most ambitious of New England�s planned textile-manufacturing cities developed by the Boston-area entrepreneurs who helped launch the American Industrial Revolution. With a dam and canal system to generate power, by 1912 Lawrence led the world in the production of worsted wool cloth. The Pacific ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Where Are the Workers?

    Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites

    by Jim Beauchesne, Rebekah Bryer, Rebecca Bush, Conor Casey, Rachel Donaldson, Kathleen Flynn, Elijah Gaddis, Susan Grabski, Amanda Kay Gustin, Karen Lane, Rob Linné, Erik Loomis, Tom MacMillan, Lou Martin, Scott McLaughlin, Kristin O'Brassill-Kulfan, Karen Sieber, Katrina Windon ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert Forrant and Mary Anne Trasciatti edit a collection of essays focused on nationwide efforts to propel the history of labor and working people into mainstream narratives of US history. In Part One, the contributors ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Who is Nursing Them? It is Us

    Neoliberalism, HIV/AIDS, and the Occupational Health and Safety of South African Public Sector Nurses

    by Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding, Jennifer Zelnick ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book explores the impacts of HIV/AIDS and neoliberal globalization on the occupational health of public sector hospital nurses in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The story of South African public sector nurses provides multiple perspectives on the HIV/AIDS epidemic-for a workforce that played a role in the struggle against apartheid, women who deal with the burden of HIV/AIDS care at work and in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Inside and Out

    Universities and Education for Sustainable Development

    by Robert Forrant, Linda Silka ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in the conversations that frame and guide both the internal restructuring process and the off-campus interactions? The perspective of this book, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Northern Exposures

    A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment

    by David Bennett, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    'Northern Exposures' is an important and thought-provoking book that shows how the labor movement has embraced environmental protection and is beginning to create a new and more sustainable vision for the future. Dave Bennett's knowledge and commitment shine through. He is, by turns, the skeptical philosopher sifting the evidence and the passionate partisan arguing for the rights of the people. It ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Shoes, Glues and Homework

    Dangerous Work in the Global Footwear Industry

    by Pia Markkanen, Charles Levenstein, Robert Forrant, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    This book describes working conditions in informal sector shoemaking in Indonesia and the Philippines, their national and international policy implications. It provides information on glues, an organic solvent, found in footwear chemicals and women garment homeworkers in Bulacan. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Metal Fatigue

    American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley

    by Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and the business ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912

    New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

    by Robert Forrant, Charles Levenstein, John Wooding, Jurg Siegenthaler ...
    Series series Work, Health and Environment Series
    "In Lawrence, Massachusetts, fully one-half of the population 14 years of age or over is employed in the woolen and worsted mills and cotton mills". Thus begins the federal government's Report on Strike of Textile Workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 . This book follows up, one hundred years later. The story's retelling offers readers an exciting reexamination of just how powerful a united ... Read more

    $120.99 USD