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Industrialization Social aspects United States History Labor movement United States History Labor unions Labor unions United States History Labor United States History Mafia United States History Organized crime United States History Racketeering United States History United States United States Social conditionsKelly, Kim
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.8097 KELSlade, Rachel
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Into the Raging Sea comes a moving and eye-opening look at the story of manufacturing in America, whether it can ever successfully return to our shores, and why doing so is vital to our well-being as a nation, told through the experience of one young couple in Maine as they attempt to rebuild a lost industry, ethically. Ben and Whitney Waxman are two tireless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 338.4 SLAGreenhouse, Steven
Summary: Examines the income inequality and declining social mobility endured by today's workers, along with the decades of worker power reductions and the increasing political and economic control of the wealthy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.88 GREDray, Philip.
Summary: From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.88 DRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.88 DRAWitwer, David Scott
Summary: "The thrilling and true account of racketeering and union corruption in mid-century New York, when unions and the mob were locked in a power struggle that reverberates to this day"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2020