Category - History
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Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Author Ryan C. Brown details the harrowing days of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 that rocked Pittsburgh and its seemingly impregnable "principal...
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An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they...
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Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the "Rebel Girl" of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-dow...
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A classic, radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781608467877 Media Type: Paper...
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to o...
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We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here: Work, Community, and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941
PaperbackOriginal price $37.50 - Original price $37.50Original price $37.50$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California t...
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A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.Product Detail...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary peo...
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The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its...
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The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its...
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Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /2022 International Labor History Association Book of the YearA dramatic, deeply researched account of how legal repression and vigilantism brough...
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Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it in...
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Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it in...
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Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The history of leisure time, from the earliest societies to the work-from-home eraFree time, one of life’s most precious things, often feels unfu...
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Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Work Flows investigates the emergence of "flow" as a crucial metaphor within Russian labor culture since 1870. Maya Vinokour frames concern with ...
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African American Workers and the Appalachian Coal Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Essays by the foremost labor historian of the Black experience in the Appalachian coalfields. This collection brings together nearly three decade...
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Unite History Volume 6 (1992-2010): The Transport and General Workers' Union (Tgwu): Unity for a New Era
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This is the final book in a series of volumes on the history of the Transport & General Workers' Union (T&G). After the neo-liberal assault...
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The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 20...
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On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Runner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008 The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop pric...
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From before the dawn of the twentieth century until the arrival of the New Deal, one of the most protracted and deadly labor struggles in America...
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00Original price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00Current price $50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warml...
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Commanders of the Dining Room: Biographic Sketches and Portraits of Successful Head Waiters
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Originally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-o...
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Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Mark S. Anner spent ten years working with labor unions in Latin America and returned to conduct eighteen months of field research: he found hims...
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