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America: What Went Wrong? by Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele. Wow, even though this is old (from the 80s, man), it is what is happening to us little guys in an the economy that favors big business. We passed it around the labor research class as an example of uncovering good data that needs to be shared. Won't someone write an update? |
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Bait & Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich. At least one of us thought this wasn't was good as Nickel & Dimed. Ehrenreich's plan of tell us what working in mid-level jobs didn't pan out like she though they would when she couldn't get hired. |
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California Workers' Rights: A Manual of Job Rights, Protections, and Remedies (3rd Ed.) by Kirsten Spalding, Joan Marie Braconi, Alan Nicholas Kopke. Good resource. Kind of dry, but we're glad they updated it. |
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford. Even the bad guys fight with each other... Interesting to get inside their heads. |
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Mutual Aid and Union Renewal: Cycles of Logics of Action by Samuel B. Bacharach, Peter Bamberger, William J. Sonnenstuhl. Passing this one around as we consider the ideas. |
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. What a thriller for those who don't know what its like to work 3 jobs to pay rent and put dinner on the table. |
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Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald, Ronald L. Seeber. Currently passing this one around, it has some good ideas. |
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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor by Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner. "At last we know what happened to Mark Rich... Clinton pardoned him on his way out of office. This book helped me understand what all the noise was when he got pardoned by Clinton as he left office." |
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Subterranean Fire : A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith. [ISBN-10: 193185923x] "Taking this with me on Spring Break. Hope there isn't too much dogma." "I found this a very interesting view of workers' history." |
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A Teamster’s Life: John H. Cleveland by Joy M. Copeland. The Teamsters early on believed in “no color line” and would not hold with the practice of separate unions for blacks. This is the story of John Cleveland, the first African-American to break the many barriers color in his rise to Teamster leadership. The Teamsters published this book on the life of Cleveland in 2006 as part of the union’s black history month activities, and as a way to share infoemation with members on "Big John". |
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Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin by Bayard Rustin. [ISBN-10: 1573441740] "I watched the DVD Brother Outsider in Labor Leadership class last semester and want to know more about Rustin for my US History 1945-Present class this term." |
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Twenty Years at Hull House: With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams, Victoria Brown, Victoria Bissell Brown, (Edited by Victoria Bissell Brown). [ISBN-10: 0312157061] "I've always been interested in how social work got started in this country. Taking on Summer break." |
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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal [ISBN-10: 0896087182]. |
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That's what this page is, so keep checking back. We expect to update it weekly ... OK, maybe every two weeks, and only if folks tell us what they think about the books they are reading. If you are reading a book about workers, or unions, or working conditions, send us a note via the feedback at the bottom of the page.
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