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  • When Miners March

    by William C. Blizzard ...
    In the first half of the 20th century, strikes and Union battles, murders and frame-ups, were common in every industrial center in the U.S. But none of these episodes compared in scope to the West Virginia Mine Wars.The uprisings of coal miners that defined the Mine Wars of the 1920’s were a direct result of the Draconian rule of the coal companies. The climax was the Battle of Blair Mountain, the ... Read more

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  • Holding the Line

    Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983

    by Barbara Kingsolver ...
    The women tell remarkable stories of their lives and actions.... This book pays powerful tribute to their resolve and passion for economic justice.― Publishers WeeklyHolding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Global Woman

    Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy

    Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild ...
    In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwideWomen are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bread and Roses

    Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream

    by Bruce Watson ...
    On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable acts of cruelty, and even a protracted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Next Crash

    How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety

    by Amy L. Fraher ...
    If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers the story airline executives and government regulators would rather not tell. While the FAA claims ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Power in Coalition

    Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change

    by Amanda Tattersall ...
    The labor movement sees coalitions as a key tool for union revitalization and social change, but there is little analysis of what makes them successful or the factors that make them fail. Amanda Tattersall—an organizer and labor scholar—addresses this gap in the first internationally comparative study of coalitions between unions and community organizations.Tattersall argues that coalition success ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty

    Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers

    by M. Murphy ...
    Before 1980, sick building syndrome did not exist. By the 1990s, it was among the most commonly investigated occupational health problems in the United States. Afflicted by headaches, rashes, and immune system disorders, office workers—mostly women—protested that their workplaces were filled with toxic hazards; yet federal investigators could detect no chemical cause. This richly detailed history ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • An Organizer's Tale

    Speeches

    by Cesar Chavez ...
    The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar ChavezOne of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and humane working conditions for hundreds of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • On the Irish Waterfront

    The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York

    by James T. Fisher ...
    Series series Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
    Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the historic preserve of Irish American gangsters, politicians, longshoremen's union leaders, and powerful Roman Catholic pastors. This is the demimonde depicted to stunning effect in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and into which James T. Fisher takes ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Direct Action & Sabotage

    Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s

    by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, William E. Trautmann ...
    Series series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy. Even then, the tactics of direct action and sabotage were often associated with the cartoonists’ image of the disheveled, wild-eyed anarchist armed with stiletto, handgun, or bomb—the clandestine activity of a militant minority or the desperate acts of the unorganized.The activist authors of the texts in this ... Read more

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  • Liberating Temporariness?

    Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

    by Valerie Preston, Robert Latham, Leah Vosko ...
    Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Software, Infrastructure, Labor

    A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares

    by Ned Rossiter ...
    Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and labor, economy and society are tied to the logistical imaginary of seamless interoperability. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD