Broughton, Chad.
Summary: "In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 BROSinclair, Upton
Summary: The horrifying conditions in the meatpacking industry in the early 1900's are revealed through the experiences of immigrants as they try to make a living by working in the Chicago stockyards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 748.2913 SPISummary: 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: It's Season six, and as the kids keep getting older, Frankie and Mike think family life is going to get easier, but they couldn't be more wrong! Bigger kids only means bigger problems! With Brick starting seventh grade as well as a new relationship, there just might be hope for him. Meanwhile, it's the 'year of sue' and Sue is navigating her way through her senior year of high school with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Frankie and Mike Heck are frazzled parents trying to stretch their patience and paychecks around three brilliantly true-to-life kids: Axl, whose latest dream girl has tattoos, body piercings, and pink hair; Sue, who's thrilled to come in eighth (out of eight) in Square Dancing with the Stars; and Brick, the only kid who has his birthday party at the public library.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDAlexander, Brian
Summary: "In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio, the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is damaged, discouraged, and fighting for its future. In Glass house, journalist Brian Alexander uses the story of one town to show how seeds sown thirty-five years ago have sprouted to give us Trumpism, inequality, and an eroding national cohesion."--Jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 ALESummary: "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: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EASDerks, Scott.
Contents: v. 1. The working class -- v. 2. The middle class -- v. 3. The upper class -- v. 4. Their children -- v. 5. Americans at war -- v. 6. Women at work -- v. 7. Social Movements -- v. 9. From the Revolutionary War to the Civil War -- v. 10. Sports & recreation
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Pub. 2000
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3 available in Reference, Call number: R 305.5 DERSummary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COOFeehan, Christine
Summary: Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glassblower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create. Commissioned to design chandeliers for a string of luxury hotels, her remarkable skills have taken her to Italy. But Lissa's real mission there is a secret. For her entire life has been a lie, leading to a chance to avenge a terrible wrong....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEDerks, Scott.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing 2000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 305.5 DERWillms, Russ
Summary: Auditioning animals to pull his sleigh for his first Christmas, Santa is dismayed to discover that no one seems quite right for the job, in this hilarious, behind-the-scenes story about Santa's reindeer crew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: JE WILLaskas, Jeanne Marie
Summary: Looks at the remarkable men and women whose low-profile accomplishments contribute to the running of the nation, from coal miners and oil rig workers to migrant laborers and air traffic controllers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.562 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VICSummary: Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHELand, 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 LANEberle, Bettina.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 1997