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Wisconsin's workers and their leaders have always been in the vanguard of those concerned with social justice, fair labor practices, humane working conditions, and political equality. Professor Ozanne's book, based upon years of research in newspapers, manuscripts, and the archives of both labor and management, provides a broad overview of an important chapter in Wisconsin history.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America's civil rights movement. These are only some of the...
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2013.
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English
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In the winter of 1920, a bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss proves to be less windfall than money pit. And the town, with its polyglot army of miners struggling against the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems on the verge of implosion. These twin dilemmas catapult Morrie into his new career as editorialist for the Thunder, the fledgling union newspaper.
6) Dear Walmart
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (61 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Via in-store organizing and actions, Black Friday strikes, small group meetings, community outreach, national gatherings of workers and online conversations with thousands of employees, Walmart workers build a new labor movement that compels the retail giant to make changes, but not without setbacks.--From the container.
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2022.
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English
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"The story of two dedicated women, a labor organizer and an immigrant laundry worker, coming together to spearhead an audacious campaign to unionize one of the most dangerous industries in one of the most anti-union states-- Arizona-- and offering a nuanced look at the modern-day labor movement and the future of workers' rights"--
On the Line takes readers inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"The story of the forty-four-day Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936-37, which led to the recognition of the United Auto Workers, the union whose wages and benefits set the standard for the 20th Century American middle class"--
The Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937 was the birth of the United Auto Workers, which set the standard for wages in every industry. McClelland tells the gripping story of how workingmen defeated General Motors, the largest industrial...
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[2017]
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xiii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions of Americans, including social security, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and universal health care. With a membership of more than 13 million,...
12) The last ballad
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"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away,...
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"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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xi, 297 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
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English
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"In a genre-defying blend of history and first-person narrative, Jesus Salas examines the history of migrant labor in the United States and the migrant farmworkers' movement of the 1950s-1970s. He begins with his grandparents' relocation in 1906 from Coahuila, Mexico, to the semi-arid but fertile floodplains along Comanche Creek in southcentral Texas. Their community of tens of thousands of Mexican settlers, recruited by land speculators to cultivate,...
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2014.
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255 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Is labor's day over or is labor the only real answer for our time? In this new book ... labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan argues that even as organized labor seems to be crumbling, a revived--but different--labor movement is now more relevant than ever in our increasingly unequal society. The inequality reshaping the country goes beyond money and income: the workplace is more authoritarian than ever, and we have even less of a say over our conditions...
18) Norma Rae
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
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English
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Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"I am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida's tomato fields: toxic pesticide exposure, beatings, sexual assault, rampant wage theft, and even, astonishingly, modern-day slavery. Marquis unveils how, even without new...
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Newfoundland novels (Wayne Johnston) volume 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
562 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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