Labour category: 1663 books
The Last Three Miles
Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
An investigative history of Depression Era power brokers and labor wars in the construction of the Pulaski Skyway across the New Jersey Meadowlands.
In the 1930s, as America’s love affair with the automobile began, cars and trucks leaving the nation’s largest city were dumped out of the...
Homeboy Came to Orange
A Story of People's Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people’s...
The Color of Work
The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history...
The Homestead Strike
Labor, Violence, and American Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
On July 6, 1892, three hundred armed Pinkerton agents arrived in Homestead, Pennsylvania to retake the Carnegie Steelworks from the company's striking workers. As the agents tried to leave their boats, shots rang out and a violent skirmish began. The confrontation at Homestead was a turning point...
by Thomas Tramble, Wilma Tramble
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2007
A hub of transportation and industry since the mid-19th century, West Oakland is today a vital commercial conduit and an inimitably distinct and diverse community within the Greater Oaklandmetropolitan area. The catalyst that transformed this neighborhood from a transcontinental rail terminal into a...
by Daniel DiSalvo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the unseen collective-bargaining-rights revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. These unions are different and more powerful than those that battle owners and managers in the private sector. To advance their interests, unions in...
Out of Sight
The Long and Disturbing Story of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A provocative analysis of labor, globalization, and environmental harm by the award-winning historian and author of A History of America in Ten Strikes.
In the current state of our globalized economy, corporations have no incentive to protect their workers or the environment. Jobs moves seamlessly...
Songs of the Factory
Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In Songs of the Factory, Marek Korczynski examines the role that popular music plays in workers' culture on the factory floor. Reporting on his ethnographic fieldwork in a British factory that manufactures window blinds, Korczynski shows how workers make often-grueling assembly-line work tolerable...
by Robert W. Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“…The purpose of this book is to present the true conditions of workers in automobile plants, and to contrast the wages of the workers in this industry with the millions of dollars in profits made by the corporations. This analysis is of particular importance, since the technical organization...
Whose Detroit?
Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the struggles of Motor City residents during the 1960s and early 1970s and finds that conflict continued to plague the...
If We Can Win Here
The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Do service-sector workers represent the future of the U.S. labor movement? Mid-twentieth-century union activism transformed manufacturing jobs from backbreaking, low-wage work into careers that allowed workers to buy homes and send their kids to college. Some union activists insist that there is no...
by David Cogswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power, unions help to spread the benefits of production...
Bread and Roses
Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2006
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...
Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals
A Documentary History of the West Virginia Mine Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Telling the powerful story of the West Virginia coal mining rebellions of the early 20th century, this book collects material from the leaders, the miners, and the journalists sent to report on the 1912 and 1921 West Virginia mine wars-explosive examples of strikes and union battles. Featured in the...