Overview :Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm w... Read More
Overview :Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the sm... Read More
Overview :Whether peonage in the South grew out of slavery, a natural and perhaps unavoidable interlude between bondage and freedom, or whether employ... Read More
Overview :This work describes, explains and warns Europe against following the road alreadly taken by the US and, perhaps not quite irreversibly, Brit... Read More
Overview :An "entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued" (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of pow... Read More
Overview :"It is splendid, finally, to have this novel back in print . . . . Nothing before or since has so successfully captured the political and em... Read More
Overview :In the early hours of New Year's Eve 1969, in the small soft coal mining borough of Clarksville, Pennsylvania, longtime trade union insider ... Read More
Overview :With the global economy recovering from a steep recession, and with that recovery challenging our long-held ideas about what careers and the... Read More
Overview :Williamson County in southern Illinois has been the scene of almost unparalleled violence, from the Bloody Vendetta between two families in ... Read More
Overview :In Labors Appropriate to Their Sex Elizabeth Quay Hutchison addresses the plight of working women in early twentieth-century Chile, when the... Read More
Overview :This revised and updated edition of Sharon Smith's accessible, critical history of the US labor movement examines the hidden radical history... Read More
Overview :Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on ... Read More
Overview :In a globalized economy that is heavily sustained by the labor of immigrants, why are certain nations defined as "ideal" labor resources and... Read More
Overview :This reprint of a groundbreaking history that traces American women's struggle for freedom, equality and unity in the labor movement follows... Read More