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  • The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History

    by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day, Immanuel Ness ...
    Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. Against employers and their goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

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  • Land of Promise

    An Economic History of the United States

    by Michael Lind ...
    Michael Lind's Land of Promise is "[an] ambitious economic history of the United States . . . rich with details" ( New York Times Book Review).How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus?From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "All Labor Has Dignity"

    by Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
    Series Book 5 - King Legacy
    An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justiceCovering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • There is Power in a Union

    by Philip Dray ...
    From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, ... Read more

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  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    by Kim Phillips-Fein ...
    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    by Thomas J. Sugrue ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Poor People's Movements

    Why They Succeed, How They Fail

    by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward ...
    Have the poor fared best by participating in conventional electoral politics or by engaging in mass defiance and disruption? The authors of the classic Regulating The Poor assess the successes and failures of these two strategies as they examine, in this provocative study, four protest movements of lower-class groups in 20th century America:-- The mobilization of the unemployed during the Great ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Rich Don't Always Win

    The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970

    by Sam Pizzigati ...
    The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have resigned ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Subterranean Fire

    A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States

    by Sharon Smith ...
    "A concise, well-written history of U.S. working-class struggle and radicalism" from the author of Women and Socialism: Class, Race, and Capital ( Solidarity).Smith explores how the connection between the U.S. labor movement and the Democratic Party, with its extensive corporate ties, has repeatedly held back working-class struggles. And she closely examines the role of the labor movement in the ... Read more

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  • Spoiled Rotten

    How the Politics of Patronage Corrupted the Once Noble Democratic Party and Now Threatens the American Republic

    by Jay Cost ...
    A popular columnist for The Weekly Standard, conservative journalist Jay Cost now offers a lively, candid, diligently researched revisionist history of the Democratic Party. In Spoiled Rotten, Cost reveals that the national political organization, first formed by Andrew Jackson in 1824, that has always prided itself as the party of the poor, the working class, the little guy is anything but that ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the U.S. Working Class

    From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century

    by Paul Le Blanc ...
    "His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds" ( Booklist).In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation.Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unions For Beginners

    by David Cogswell ...
    Series series For Beginners
    Do you appreciate your forty-hour, five-day workweek? Appreciate having a safe working environment? Unions made this all possible in one way or another. Unions bring value to all sectors of a society. As the champion of people power versus corporate power, unions help to spread the benefits of production throughout a society. Regardless of the state of the economy, there is the timeless struggle ... Read more

    $13.09 USD