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Dumb Money
Adventures of a Day Trader
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2000
As you read this, five million Americans are day-trading. Not since gold was discovered in California have more people dropped out of their old lives and come running for the promise of a big score. For a time, Joey Anuff was among them. He has emerged-enriched, enlightened, and exhausted-to share...
Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial, that culminated in four controversial executions, and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would...
by Michael Branigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
“Delves into O’Hare’s past and present, based on Branigan’s extensive research and his interviews with aviation professionals and enthusiasts” (Chicago Tribune).
In 1942, a stretch of Illinois prairie that had served as a battleground and a railroad depot became the site of a major...
The War on Normal People
The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asian kid from upstate" became a successful entrepreneur, only to find a new mission: calling attention to the urgent steps America must take, including Universal Basic Income, to stabilize our economy...
Under the Bus
How Working Women Are Being Run Over
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
“Did you think you knew the facts about women and work? Think again . . . a terrific book . . . utterly gripping.” —Peter Edelman, author of So Rich, So Poor
For women in professional and corporate jobs, much of the discrimination and inequity faced in the past has been confronted—and...
Big Potatoes
The London Manifesto for Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
When it was first published in January 2010, the Big Potatoes manifesto quickly created an international circle of enthusiasts – people who believed, and still believe, that the pace of technological innovation in the West is too slow. Now, a little later, what the Economist (12 January 2013) has...
IdeaSpotting
How to Find Your Next Great Idea
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Positioning ideas as the fuel of business success and personal fulfillment, this indispensable resource helps readers find creative fuel by helping them discover insights and develop habits that lead to more and better ideas. Written in a punchy style with easily digestible single-page messages,...
by Jeremy Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Since its original publication in 1972, no book has done as much as Jeremy Brecher’s Strike! to bring American labor history to a wide audience. Strike! narrates the dramatic story of repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America and tells this exciting hidden...
by Bill Cotter
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
In 1984, the city of New Orleans hosted the last world's fair held in the United States. Conceived as part of an ambitious effort to revitalize a dilapidated section of the city and establish New Orleans as a year-round tourist destination, it took more than 12 years of political intrigue and design...
Retirement on the Line
Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes...
Eaton Hall
Pride of King Township
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
In 1901, Florence McCrea married into one of the most prosperous families in the Dominion of Canada, becoming Lady Eaton fourteen years later when her husband, John Craig Eaton, was knighted. Not long after the death of her husband, Lady Eaton retired from her home in Toronto to the seventy-two-room,...
Airline Economics
An Empirical Analysis of Market Structure and Competition in the US Airline Industry
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
This book presents an original empirical investigation of the market structure of airline city pair markets, shedding new light on the workings of competitive processes between firms. Examining a cross-section of US airline city pairs, Tabacco proposes for the first time that the industry can be understood...
by Staughton Lynd, Daniel Gross
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world. Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument...
Caro Ministro Poletti
Quello che gli italiani si sentono di comunicare ai loro nuovi governanti.
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Una lettera al Ministro del lavoro da parte del suo più grande amico, il popolo italiano.Una lettera semplice che ricorda le priorità, le necessità ma non ammette che si dimentichi lo stile, il metodo, il ricordo della grandezza del lavoro, della nobiltà del lavoro.Una lettera diversa da quella...