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1	Making of the English Working Class more books like this by Edward P Thompson add to wishlist E. P. Thompson examines the period from 1870 to 1932, when historical forces and processes, including the Industrial Revolution, brought about the working class as a separate and identifiable group in England. see all copies from $4.55! new only from $15.36! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Occupational Outlook Handbook more books like this by United States Department of Labor (Compiled by) add to wishlist The "Occupational Outlook Handbook" has been respected as the job seeker's number-one source of critical decision-making data for more than 50 years. From able seaman to zoologist, the latest edition gives you comprehensive information on more than 250 occupations, encompassing nearly 90 per cent of the jobs in the U.S. economy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| SVS
3	Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family more books like this by Lillian Rubin add to wishlist The classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class family life by a renowned sociologist, psychotherapist, and bestselling author. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume One: From the Colonial Times to the Founding of the American Federation of Labor more books like this by Philip S Foner add to wishlist 8th printing fall '98. Early trade unions and labor parties; The 10-hour movement; Northern labor and slavery; Labor and the Civil War; Rise of the Knights of Labor; Depression 1873-78 and strikes; Labor political action, more. see all copies from $5.63! new only from $46.73!
5	Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data more books like this by Eva E Jacobs add to wishlist "Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics" provides recent and historical data on U.S. employment, earnings, prices, productivity, living conditions, training, alternative work arrangements, union affiliation, occupational injuries, and other related topics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.00! \| SVS
6	A Theory of the Labor Movement more books like this by Selig Perlman add to wishlist see all copies from $2.29! new only from $9.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The World of Biblical Literature more books like this by Mr. Robert Alter add to wishlist A pioneer in the burgeoning movement to understand the Bible as literature assesses the spate of new developments in the area, including Harold Bloom's The Book of J, as he reexamines the relationship between literary imagination and religious values. "A fresh voice for a new generation of readers".-- Christian Science Monitor. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.54! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ancient Greece at Work: An Economic History of Greece from the Homeric Period to the Roman Conquest more books like this by Gustave Glotz add to wishlist see all copies from $8.75! new only from $166.87! \| first editions
9	White Town, U. S. A. more books like this by Peter Binzen add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
10	History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume Eight: Postwar Struggles, 1918-1920 more books like this by Philip Sheldon Foner add to wishlist Labor and the Red Scare; Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes; Boston telephone and police strikes; Streetcar strikes in Chicago, Denver, Knoxville, Kansas City; strikes in clothing, textile, coal and steel; The open-shop drive; Strikes and Black-white relationships; the AFL and the Black worker; the IWW; Communist Party founded; Political action ... see all copies from $37.40! new only from $43.28!
11	Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848 more books like this by William Hamilton Sewell add to wishlist Work and Revolution in France is particularly appropriate for students of French history interested in the crucial revolutions that took place in 1789, 1830, and 1848. Sewell has reconstructed the artisans' world from the corporate communities of the old regime, through the revolutions in 1789 and 1830, to the socialist experiments of 1848. ... see all copies from $2.02! new only from $18.90! \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Responsive Workplace: Employers and a Changing Labor Force more books like this by Professor Sheila B Kamerman add to wishlist The authors examine innovations in the workplace as well as enduring concerns--fringe benefits, day care and other services, and employers' policies at the workplace. And, they assess employers' adequacy in assisting parents of young children to manage simultaneously their work and family roles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $28.20! \| SVS
13	Workingmens Democracy more books like this by Leon Fink add to wishlist see all copies from $2.47! new only from $24.00! \| SVS
14	Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam, and the Egyptian Working Class more books like this by Joel Beinin, Zachary Lockman add to wishlist This study examines the role of trade unionism and the working class in the development of Egyptian nationalism during the first half of the 20th century. see all copies from $10.99! new only from $22.50! \| first editions
15	Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns more books like this by Foster John add to wishlist see all copies from $8.97! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
16 view cover	The State of Working America: 1996-97 more books like this by Lawrence Mishel, John Schmitt, Jared Bernstein add to wishlist Presents a statistical portrait of the standard of living of America's working families. This work analyzes areas such as family income, taxes, wages, jobs, wealth and poverty, and shows how the economy is reflected in the lives of American workers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.50!
17 view cover	Doing the Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London more books like this by Dr. Dick Hobbs add to wishlist Doing the Business looks at the culture of London's East End and its relationship with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Metropolitan Police. The cultures of both the East End and the CID are examined in terms of their relationship with the market place and the emergent strategies of negotiation, trading, and, most importantly, ... see all copies from $3.58! new only from $51.42! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Power of the Past: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm more books like this by Pat Thane (Editor), Geoffrey Crossick (Editor), Roderick Floud (Editor) add to wishlist Modern industrial societies are the creation of forced of change embedded in their pre-industrial and pre-capitalist past, forces which have shaped their economic structures, their politics of domination and resistance, their social ideas and relationships. In this book a distinguished group of historians focuses on this dialectal relationship ... see all copies from $23.38! new only from $35.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19	American labor. more books like this by Henry Pelling add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20	The Working-Class Majority more books like this by Andrew Levison add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Revolutionary rehearsals more books like this by Colin Barker (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $7.87! new only from $13.61! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	America's Working Poor more books like this by Thomas R Swartz (Editor), Kathleen M Weigert (Editor) add to wishlist This is a wide-ranging study of the working poor in America - those whose incomes are insufficient to sustain either themselves or their families. It employs a data source based on the 1980 and the 1990 censuses to show how the numbers of such poor may have changed. Policy solutions are suggested. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.06!
23 view cover	Men at Work more books like this by Lewis Wickes Hine add to wishlist Construction workers, railroad men, factory workers, miners, Empire State Building construction. 69 photos in all. see all copies from $5.58! new only from $5.58! \| SVS
24 view cover	Eugene V. Debs: Spokesman for Labor and Socialism more books like this by Bernard J Brommel add to wishlist The classic biography covering all of Debs public career of 52 years - as City Clerk and State Representative, American Railway Union organizer, and his conversion to socialism, five campaigns for the presidency and his leadership of anti-war dissenters and other causes. Based on research in family papers, this is still the finest sympathetic ... see all copies from $2.39! new only from $14.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Silenced more books like this by Makeda Silvera add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $22.50!

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