Summary: When Wisconsin's newly elected Governor Scott Walker introduces a bill that threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six ordinary Wisconsinites join thousands of protesters at the State Capitol, building a citizen-driven uprising that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bal Maiden Films 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WEGuerin, Lisa
Summary: Anyone who hires and supervises employees needs clear policies when it comes to crucial issues like pay and overtime, medical leave, and social media. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides everything business owners, managers, and HR professionals need to create (or update) a legal and plain-English employee handbook.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business GuerinKelly, Marjorie
Summary: All attempts to address the economic collapse are overlooking an essential factor: ownership. So long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing monetary returns per quarter for a narrow group of individuals the economy will be subject to crippling boom-and-bust cycles. The author reports on emerging ownership alternatives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.14 KELRepa, Barbara Kate.
Summary: Features information on firing, wages, health insurance, medical leave, retirement plans, disability and worker's compensation insurance, discrimination, and privacy rights with up-to-date state and federal law information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 MCCSummary: I am somebody : Records the 1969 strike by black, predominantly female, hospital workers in Charleston, S.C. for better working conditions and higher wages. Shows how the struggle was won by a coalition of local and national union and civil rights groups plus the local black community through nonviolent marches and demonstrations. Highlights Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC IWilkie, Curtis
Summary: "The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WILEdmonds, Michael (EDT)
Summary: "Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach non-violence, and more than 60,000 Black Mississippians risked everything to overturn a system that had brutally exploited them. In the 44 original documents in this anthology, you'll read their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wisconsin Historical Society 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 RISKleinknecht, William
Summary: "In the wake of Trump's presidency, Republican-led states have joined in an alarming assault on our democratic system. But the drift toward authoritarianism in red states has far deeper roots. We now have a country where tens of millions of people live under regimes that have spent years starving education and health care, empowering polluters, engaging in voter suppression, and neglecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 KLEVisser, Kristin
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Oak Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.9775 VISSmith, Kathryn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 720.92 SMISummary: Eccentricity defines daily life in Rome, Wisconsin, where the Tin Man from "The wizard of Oz" is murdered, a student brings a severed hand to school for show-and-tell, and a woman runs over her husband with a steam roller pleading "not guilty by reason of menopause." Sheriff Jimmy Brock has seen it all. Indeed, behind the tidy picket fences of this quirky little town lie all the same problems...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PICBarreiro, Sachi
Summary: "Get paid fairly and on time; protect yourself from harassment and discrimination; fight a wrongful termination; includes workplace laws for all 50 states"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 BARCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Business BarreiroHiggins, M. G.
Summary: Important aspects of jobs and managing basic skills on your own are explored in these nonfiction/fiction flip books. This book focuses on employee rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saddleback Educational Publishing 2017
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344 HIGMaltby, Lewis.
Contents: You have the right to remain silent : freedom of speech in the workplace -- Smile, you're on candid camera : privacy in the workplace -- Whose life is it anyway? : employer control of personal lives -- Wrongful discharge and employment at will -- No second chances : background checks -- A penny for your thoughts : psychological testing by employers -- Drug testing -- Brave new workplace :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7301 MALWright, Jaime Jo
Summary: "In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a housemaid position and finds that the eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides a story more harrowing than those in her novels. Centuries later, Cleo Clemmons uncovers an age-old mystery, and the dust of the old castle's curse threatens to rise again, this time leaving no one alive to tell its sordid tale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIPettrey, Dani
Summary: "When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker off the North Carolina coast, Coast Guard investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers take on the case. Mounting evidence shows the death may have been murder, and they must race to discover the killer's identity before he finds them first"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC PETMcShane Wulfhart, Nell
Summary: "The empowering story of a group of spirited stewardesses who fought for their rights in the cabin and revolutionized the workplace for all American women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4 MCSBuckingham, Marcus.
Summary: Companies compete to find and keep the best employees, using pay, benefits, promotions, and training. But these well-intentioned efforts often miss the mark. The front-line manager is the key to attracting and retaining talented employees. No matter how generous its pay or how renowned its training, the company that lacks great front-line managers will suffer. The authors explain how the best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.409 BUCSummary: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2011
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Summary: Detective Will Trent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation takes on the case of a girl who has been savagely murdered in one of Atlanta's most desirable neighborhoods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2008
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Summary: "When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker off the North Carolina coast, Coast Guard investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers take on the case. Mounting evidence shows the death may have been murder, and they must race to discover the killer's identity before he finds them first."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PETGraham, Heather
Summary: "They're not going down without a fight. When FDLE special agent Amy Larson discovers a small horse figurine amid the bloody aftermath of a gang massacre in the Everglades, she recognizes it immediately. The toy is the calling card of the apocalypse cult that Amy and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter Forrest, have been investigating, and it can only mean one thing: this wasn't an isolated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRAMacCarald, Clara
Summary: "Describes gig jobs in the creative arts, including the history of gig jobs in the creative arts, working a gig job, the pros and cons of gig work, and the future of gig jobs in the creative arts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: BrightPoint Press 2023