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  • The Battle for Wisconsin

    Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition

    de Andrew E. Kersten ...
    This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the role of government in the state to fit his own conservative ideology.In The Battle for Wisconsin, the ... Leer más

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  • Clarence Darrow

    American Iconoclast

    de Andrew E. Kersten ...
    Clarence Darrow is best remembered for his individual cases, whether defending the thrill killers Leopold and Loeb or John Scopes's right to teach evolution in the classroom. In the first full-length biography of Darrow in decades, the historian Andrew E. Kersten narrates the complete life of America's most legendary lawyer and the struggle that defined it, the fight for the American traditions of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A. Philip Randolph

    A Life in the Vanguard

    de Andrew E. Kersten ...
    Series series The African American Experience Series
    Before the emergence of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., there were several key leaders who fought for civil rights in the United States. Among them was A. Philip Randolph, who perhaps best embodied the hopes, ideals, and aspirations of black Americans. Born in the South at the start of the Jim Crow era, Randolph was by his thirtieth birthday a prime mover in the movement to expand civil, social, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Labor's Home Front

    The American Federation of Labor during World War II

    de Andrew E. Kersten ...
    One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Reframing Randolph

    Labor, Black Freedom, and the Legacies of A. Philip Randolph

    de Andrew E. Kersten, Clarence Lang ...
    Series Libro 12 - Culture, Labor, History
    Atone time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. As president ofthe all-black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP), he was an embodimentof America’s multifaceted radical tradition, a leading spokesman for BlackAmerica, and a potent symbol of trade unionism and civil rights agitation fornearly half a century. But with the dissolution of the BSCP in the 1970s, theassaults ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Envisioning Abolition

    Socialism, Anarchism and Penal Abolitionism in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth centuries

    de Ruby Tuke, Ophélie Siméon, Andrei Zorin, Peter Cox, Jonathan Baldwin, Owen Holland, Federico Testa, Robert Weide, Alejandro Forero Cuellar, Davide Turcato, Marco Manfredi, Lisa Phillips, Andrew Kersten, Penny A. Weiss, Søren Hough, Paul Taylor ...
    Abolitionist thought visualizes a world without prisons – or a radical reduction or transformation of prisons and punishment. This fascinating book explores the abolitionist ideas of key early socialists and anarchists, writing from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. It considers how these radical thinkers can provide insights into our present condition, both by highlighting the harms of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Identifying and Addressing Childhood Food Insecurity in Healthcare and Community Settings

    Edición de Hans B. Kersten, Andrew F. Beck, Melissa Klein ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This salient resource offers clinicians a comprehensive multi-tiered framework for identifying, addressing, and reducing food insecurity among children and their families. Reinforcing the importance of food insecurity as a key social determinant of health, this monograph reviews the epidemiology and presents in-depth guidelines for screening for food insecurity and hunger. Recommendations for ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • There is Power in a Union

    de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    de Robin D. G. Kelley ...
    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the “long Civil Rights movement,” Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama’s repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Standing at Armageddon

    A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era

    de Nell Irvin Painter ...
    **“A gripping and forceful narrative.”—Nancy F. Cott, author of Public VowsAn “enthralling” (Michael Kazin, Washington Post) account of America’s shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society.**In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in industrial and agricultural productivity; by 1919, per capita ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • A Treasure Chest of Hidden History

    Fun Facts and Serious Episodes That You May Have Missed in Your American History Class

    de Rusty Glover ...
    As a high school history teacher for the past 25 years, I have collected and read hundreds of books pertaining to my subjects taught. On the completion of each book, I would carefully take notes on the most interesting events, quotes, or interpretations that I felt would enhance instruction for my students. After filling numerous notepads of information on over 800 books, I contemplated a project ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Speak Now Against The Day

    The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South

    de John Egerton ...
    Speak Now Against the Day is the astonishing, little-known story of the Southerners who, in the generation before the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus, challenged the validity of a white ruling class and a “separate but equal” division of the races.The voices of the dissenters, although present throughout the South’s ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD