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1	In Dubious Battle more books like this by John Steinbeck add to wishlist Steinbeck's powerful work of social criticism, published in 1936, involves a group of apple-picking migrant workers in California. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short, Illustrated History of Labor in the United States more books like this by Priscilla Murolo, A B Chitty, Joe Sacco (Illustrator) add to wishlist Hailed in a starred "Publishers Weekly" review as a work of "impressive even-handedness and analytic acuity . . . that gracefully handles a broad range of subject matter, " This is the first comprehensive look at American history through the prism of working people. of illustrations. see all copies from $3.07! new only from $12.67! \| first editions \| SVS
3	State of the Union: A Century of American Labor more books like this by Nelson Lichtenstein, William Chafe (Editor), Gary Gerstle (Editor) add to wishlist In a fresh and timely reinterpretation, Nelson Lichtenstein examines how trade unionism has waxed and waned in the nation's political and moral imagination, among both devoted partisans and intransigent foes. From the steel foundry to the burger-grill, from Woodrow Wilson to John Sweeney, from Homestead to Pittston, Lichtenstein weaves together a ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $32.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Memories of Another Day more books like this by Harold Robbins add to wishlist In the mountains of West Virginia Dan learned the price of work, love, and murder--when murder was a man's last resort. Daniel Boone Huggins, shaped by violent tragedy and a restless passion for beautiful women, rose from poverty to become the most powerful--and dangerous--labor organizer in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience more books like this by Thai Jones add to wishlist In this elegant family history, journalist Thai Jones traces the past century of American radical politics through the extraordinary exploits of several generations of his own family. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.00! \| first editions
6	The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 more books like this by David Montgomery add to wishlist This book studies the changing ways in which American industrial workers mobilised concerted action in their own interests between the abolition of slavery and the end of open immigration from Europe and Asia. Sustained class conflict between 1916 and 1922 reshaped governmental and business policies, but left labour largely unorganised and in ... see all copies from $3.46! new only from $21.79! \| first editions \| SVS
7	From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future more books like this by Professor Stanley Aronowitz add to wishlist A former trade-union organizer and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York traces the decline and reemergence of American labor over the last quarter-century.. Noted labor expert Stanley Aronowitz provides a definitive assessment of the last twenty-five years of labor history. He argues that unions have historically ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track more books like this by Andy Stern add to wishlist The maverick leader of the fastest-growing union in the United States proposes a revolutionary paradigm for America and labor--in which workers and management and all Americans can thrive in the global economy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists more books like this by Robert Tressell add to wishlist 'The present system means joyless drudgery, semi-starvation, rags and premature death; and they vote for it and uphold it. Let them have what they vote for! Let them drudge and let them starve!' There is no other novel quite like The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. George Orwell called it 'a wonderful book'; its readers have become a living ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.75! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path Toward Social Justice more books like this by Fernando Gapasin, Bill Fletcher, Jr. add to wishlist The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, "Solidarity Divided" is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new way forward into the twenty-first century. Bill ... see all copies from $12.77! new only from $24.85! \| SVS
11 view cover	Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California more books like this by Carey McWilliams add to wishlist Dramatizing the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture, this text starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and goes on to examine the experience of ethnic groups that have provided labour for California's agricultural industry. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.34! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz more books like this by Eric J Hobsbawm (Preface by) add to wishlist A series of historical essays from the late 18th century to contemporary times, including many of the author's studies of labor history. The author, a celebrated historian, also addresses such topics as sex, the Mafia, revolution, violence, and the history of jazz. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
13 view cover	King Coal more books like this by Upton Sinclair add to wishlist Inspired by the tragic 1913 Colorado mine workers' strike that left 14 women and children dead, this damning novel describes in detail the transgressions of industry against the physical and spiritual freedom of working people. see all copies from $3.85! new only from $12.30! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization Since 1870 more books like this by Beverly J Silver, Peter Lange (Editor), Robert H Bates (Editor) add to wishlist Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic and social processes since the late-nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries it demonstrates ... see all copies from $19.14! new only from $23.97! \| SVS
15 view cover	The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor more books like this by Dorothy Sue Cobble (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.92! new only from $17.95! \| SVS
16 view cover	Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century more books like this by Howard Zinn, Ph.D., Dana Frank, Robin D G Kelley add to wishlist Three historians recount three important strikes in American history. Howard Zinn writes of the 1913 Coal Miners's strike in Colorado and the Ludlow massacre; Dana Frank recounts the 1937 Woolworth's strike in Detroit; Robin Kelly examines the 1936 dispute between the American Federation of Musicians and theatre owners. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Big Red Songbook more books like this by Archie Green (Editor), David Roediger (Editor), Franklin Rosemont (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $14.94! new only from $14.94! \| SVS
18 view cover	Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America more books like this by Elliot J Gorn add to wishlist In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America, " Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever." 11 photos. see all copies from $8.39! new only from $23.74! \| SVS
19	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
20	Harry Bridges; The Rise and Fall of Radical Labor in the United States more books like this by Charles P Larrowe add to wishlist see all copies from $4.54! first editions
21 view cover	Coalitions Across the Class Divide: Lessons from the Labor, Peace, and Environment Movements more books like this by Fred Rose add to wishlist Too often struggles for jobs and economic justice have been divided from social goals such as peace or protecting the environment. How do we create an economy where both the process and product of work serve life-sustaining goals? Coalitions across the Class Divide argues that the seeds of this new society are being sown by those who learn to ... see all copies from $2.11! new only from $16.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance Among Garment Workers in Thailand more books like this by Piya Pangsapa add to wishlist see all copies from $11.95! new only from $14.78! \| SVS
23 view cover	Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa more books like this by Frederick Cooper, David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor) add to wishlist This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the ... see all copies from $42.00! new only from $42.00! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy more books like this by Michael Yates add to wishlist The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefited workers hardly at all. At the same time, the bosses were able to take the political initiative and even the moral high ground, while workers were often divided against each other. This new book by leading labor analyst Michael D. Yates seeks to explain how this ... see all copies from $5.85! new only from $12.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	History of the Labor Movement in the United States: Volume Ten: The T.U.E.L. 1952-1929 more books like this by Philip Sheldon Foner add to wishlist Adds significant new facts to these TUEL years and their import. More on the miners, Ladies' Garment workers, Fur workers, Amalgameted Clothing, Auto, Textile, Maritime and Agricultural workers; Labor and Fascism; Sacco-Vanzetti frameup; Black Workers; American T.U. delegation to Soviet Union; Changes in trade union policy. see all copies from $4.90! new only from $46.34!

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