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1) Prophet song
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"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
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Hill and Wang
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"Her rallying cry was famous: "Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living." Mother Jones (1837-1930) was a celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of protest movements in the early twentieth century. At coal strikes, steel strikes, railroad, textile, and brewery strikes, Mother Jones was always there, stirring the workers to action and enraging the powerful." "When Mary Jones began her career as a "hell-raiser," as she put it, she...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2004
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Dover ed.
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Overview: Among the most stirring pieces of labor history ever written, this autobiography chronicles the life of a woman who was considered a saint by many, and by others as "the most dangerous woman in America. " Widowed at the age of 30, Jones spoke tirelessly for the rights of workers and unionists.
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ILR Press
Pub. Date
©1989
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Holding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book, is the story of women's lives transformed by a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and part social criticism, exploring the process of empowerment which occurs when people work together as a community. Like Kingsolver's award-winning novels, Holding the Line is a beautifully written book grounded on the strength of its characters. Hundreds of...
6) The Wobblies
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Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Forgotten look at American history of radical unions, paying tribute to workers who took ideals of equality and free speech seriously enough to die for what they believed in.
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2022.
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"Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America's civil rights movement. These are only some of the...
8) Cesar Chavez
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Chelsea Juniors
Pub. Date
[1992]
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A biography of the union activist who led the struggle of migrant farm workers for better working conditions.
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Amicus
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"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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Texas A & M University Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Description
In this first published anthology, Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback present Chavez in his own terms. Through this collection and through his own words and analysis of his major speeches and writings, Jensen and Hammerback reveal the rhetorical qualities and underlying rhetorical dynamics of a master communicator and also offer a rich source of the history of the farm workers' movement Chavez led from the early 1940s to his death in 1993.
12) Cesar Chavez
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Biography of the Mexican-American labor activist who organized and led the braceros, or migrant farm workers, in their struggle for better working conditions.
13) Dolores Huerta
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Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Learn about the life of this outstanding American labor leader.
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