E Zézi gruppo operaio di Pomigliano
Contents: A cammera e cunziglio -- Vesuvio -- Piazza Dante -- Peppeniello -- Pummarola black -- N'adda fa bene -- O munaciello -- A Ferriera -- Capipallisti -- Posa e sorde.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lyrichord Discs 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN E ZESummary: Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONLaskas, Jeanne Marie
Summary: "Character-driven stories about the people who make our lives run every day--and yet we barely think of them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.5 LASSummary: In this landmark living history series, a Victorian tenement in the heart of London's East End has been painstakingly brought back to life. Host Michael Mosley joins a group of 21st century families as they move in and experience the tough living and working conditions of the Victorian poor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICLand, Stephanie
Summary: Land's plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest to chase her dreams were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, took classes online to earn a college degree. And she wrote relentlessly: true stories of overworked and underpaid Americans; of living on food stamps and WIC coupons. Here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAND, STEPHANIE LANCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LAND LANFeinberg, Leslie
Summary: Jess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s and then to pass as a man in order to survive when she is left without work or a community in the early '70s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Firebrand Books 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Kaunonen, Gary.
Summary: A mirror of great changes that were occurring on the national labor rights scene, the 1913–14 Michigan Copper Strike was a time of unprecedented social upheaval in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With organized labor taking an aggressive stance against the excesses of unfettered capitalism, the stage was set for a major struggle between labor and management. The Michigan Copper Strike received...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 977.49 KAUGoldie, Luan
Summary: "On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Tristan wishes Malachi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLSummary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 GOISummary: Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EIGSummary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie -- two young brothers -- and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRIKelly, 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 KELSummary: Two flawed families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in an acclaimed Australian miniseries. Adapted by Tim Winton from his award-winning novel, set around Perth from 1943-63, it's gripping, poignant, and gorgeous. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof. Exquisitely filmed with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLOHoffman, Dustin M.
Summary: "Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFLeopold, Les
Summary: "Layoffs upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of modern financialized capitalism? In Wall Street's War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 LEOMarchant, Catherine.
Summary: At the Habitation, a large and decaying riverside house, the Crawfords were on the verge of bankruptcy - and when Martha Mary was obliged to take on the responsibility for her family, a series of dramatic events occurred that would test her indomitable fortitude.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARSummary: After finding a bagful of unmarked $100 bills, there were a million reasons for unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle to give the money back, but he couldn't think of one good enough.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Shin, Kyung-sook
Summary: "Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHIVande Zande, Jeff.
Summary: Betrayed by his art and disillusioned by his job as a professor, Ray Casper finds his long-time girlfriend has just left him. At the death of his estranged father, he links up with his out-of-work brother Sammy, and things really get complicated. Sammy moves in with Ray and needs a job; Ray needs inspiration to paint again, and both have to keep from killing each other. This novel unites...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bottom Dog Press 2009