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"A former union buster exposes the dirty tricks that elevated him to the top of his profession and that have transformed the war on organized labor into a billion-dollars-per-year industry. This book is the story of a man who has decided to come in out of the cold, to clear his conscience, and to share the hard lessons he has learned."--
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"Explore Dolores Huerta's life as a union labor leader and civil rights activist in a unique timeline biography. Carefully leveled text and historical photographs make this book an excellent choice to support College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Social Studies standards for elementary grades. Table of contents, glossary, index, further resources, and author bio are included"--
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"In 2019, Ben Gwin played an integral role in organizing the contract workers at Google’s Pittsburgh offices. In Team Building, he takes us inside the employees’ fight for better benefits and more flexible scheduling, offering us a candid account of today’s labor movement and the forces in America that aim to divide workers and maintain the status quo. But this is also a personal story of struggle and triumph. As Ben works with the union, he’s...
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"It's union time, people! That was the rallying cry of workers at the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Since the plant opened in 1993, meatpacking workers endured dangerous working conditions, intimidation, and low pay. Hand in hand with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, through two botched elections and a 16-year struggle, meatpacking workers achieved the greatest union victory of the 21st...
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"This study provides new answers to one of the most perplexing questions facing historians of labor and of the South: why were workers so resistant to the efforts of unions and liberals to reform the region? Elizabeth and Ken Fones-Wolf add evangelical Protestantism to the narrative of how workers responded to organized labor's most ambitious effort to transform the U.S. South in the decades after World War II: the CIO's Operation Dixie (1946-53)....
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Fueled by her own contact with migrant farm workers, most of them Mexican immigrants, Dolores became an outspoken activist and organizer. At the time, these workers had virtually no access to the system of labor laws and conditions under which they lived and worked. When she founded the United Farm Workers in 1962 with legendary Mexican American labor leader Cesar Chavez, it became a seminal moment in U.S. labor history. This brave and resourceful...
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A biography of the determined labor organizer of the early twentieth century who became known as Mother Jones.
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"When his father is framed for murder, immigrant Nikolaus McGovern rallies a motley crew of street youths in a rip-roaring coming-of-age adventure based on the period history of antebellum New York City! Against a backdrop of rampant political corruption, vicious street gangs, nascent labor reform, and ardent xenophobia, can Niko and his friends triumph in a life-or-death battle against their oppressors--or will they succumb to the engines of socioeconomic...
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