Durbin, William
Summary: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURSalazar, Aida
Summary: "Lula Viramontes aches to one day become someone whom no one can ignore: a daring ringleader in a Mexican traveling circus. But between working the grape harvest in Delano, California, with her older siblings under dangerous conditions; taking care of her younger siblings and Mamá, who has mysteriously fallen ill; and doing everything she can to avoid Papá's volatile temper, it's hard to hold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: "C. S. Malerich's The Factory Witches of Lowell is a riveting historical fantasy about witches going on strike in the historical mill-town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Faced with abominable working conditions, unsympathetic owners, and hard-hearted managers, the mill girls of Lowell have had enough. They're going on strike, and they have a secret weapon on their side: a little witchcraft to ensure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALWilson, Karma.
Summary: The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WilMiller, Judith
Summary: When Pullman Car Works employees walk out in protest over their wages and high rent, Olivia Mott is torn between her loyalty to the company and her love for Fred DeVault, in this action-packed finale to the bestselling historical series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILTatlock, Ann.
Summary: The Great Depression and a strike at the grainmill greatly changes Virginia's life and outlook as her physician father begins to work with the unemployed and the strikers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolionas 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TATWilson, Karma.
Summary: The zoo animals go on strike until the tears of a disappointed little girl make them realize that they actually like what they do.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORANGE ANIMurata, Kiyoko
Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: Ten-year-old Rebecca Rubin is injured during a strike at the sweatshop where her uncle and cousin work when she tries to give a speech, while keeping a big secret from her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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Summary: Detective Chief Inspector Monika Paniatowski is called to investigate the murder of a retired miner in the village of Bellingsworth, which is already dealing with an impending miners strike and as Monika tracks the killer her partner and closest frind Detective Inspector Colin Beresford threatens to tear the team apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPEDonoso, Raquel
Summary: Since the day she was born, Viva's voice has always been the mightiest in the room. But when Papi's bus driver union goes on strike, quiet Papi is the family member who must speak up. He feels nervous, but Viva's strength gives Papi the courage he needs to find his own powerful voice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kind World Publishing 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DONHaddix, Margaret Peterson.
Summary: In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HADGreen, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREHeywood, Joseph.
Summary: Lute Bapcap, former cowboy, Rough Rider, and beaver trapper becomes Michigan's first civil service game warden handpicked by Theodore Roosevelt, and after his posting he becomes entangled in a bloody labor strike marked by sabotage tactics, such as slaughtered deer, flooded animal dens, poisoned trout streams and well water, and deforestation, all designed by mine owners to deny nature's bounty...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS HEYMcCully, Emily Arnold.
Summary: A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--will she participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCPaterson, Katherine.
Summary: Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 2006
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT FICTION PatersonComstock, Lyndon.
Summary: A biography of Annie Clemenc, who led the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan. It covers her childhood, her work in the Slovenian immigrant community in Calumet, Michigan, her participation in the copper strike, and her subsequent life in Chicago.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: L. Comstock 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CLEMENC COMLaughlin, Rosemary.
Summary: Describes the events leading up to and occurring during the lockout and strike of railroad workers working for the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, and its impact upon American labor unions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 LAUWasek, A.A.
Summary: One of America's most famous - and most deadly - labor strikes occurred in The Copper Country of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula in 1913, and its major events are described through the eyes of sixteen-year old Emilia Rytilahti. Emilia and her younger sister Heli are first-generation American born Finns, who see and personally experience the prejudice of the era against their family and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Wasek,] 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WASMarkel, Michelle.
Summary: An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J331.892 MARSummary: "Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018