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African Trade Unionsby Ioan DaviesISBN 0837190819 (0-8371-9081-9)
Hardcover, Greenwood Press
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All Quiet on the Western Frontby Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth KieselISBN 0826416535 (0-8264-1653-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movementby Carlotta R. AndersonISBN 0814327079 (0-8143-2707-9)
Hardcover, Wayne State Univ Pr
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American Exceptionalism, American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United Statesby Jonathan A. GlicksteinISBN 0813921155 (0-8139-2115-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Virginia Pr
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Some leading American critics of slavery and "indiscriminate" poor relief suggested that "free market" compulsions of hunger and thirst were therapeutic and ennobling and by themselves elevated capitalist wage labor above chattel servitude. Others, including prominent Republican proponents of the mythology of northern American exceptionalism, tied the legitimacy of capitalist wage labor to the hireling's ability to commodify his labor to his own advantage. Distinct from both these groups were labor-reform critics who insisted both that capitalists were finding "starvation wages" sufficiently labor-inducing and that the "lash" of poverty demoralized and crushed, rather than ennobled, northern wage laborers. Glickstein pays particular attention to neglected early nineteenth-century debates over the circumstances under which the allure to employers of "cheap" or otherwise "servile" labor trumped the supposed superior productivity of more generously compensated, "respectable" free labor. In probing Republican commentators' paradoxical fear that northern white labor could not withstand competition from "inferior" slave labor, for example, he challenges the still-dominant characterization of Republican Party free-labor ideology as an optimistic, self-confident creed.
In the course of exploring the dark side of antebellum American labor ideologies, Glickstein engages some of the most significant issues in antebellum historiography, including the market revolution, the linguistic turn, whiteness as an axis of self-identity, and bourgeois ideological hegemony.
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American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Cultureby William Issel, Robert W. Cherny, Kieran Walsh TaylorISBN 0813534038 (0-8135-3403-8)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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American Labor in the Southwestby James C. FosterISBN 0816507414 (0-8165-0741-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Arizona Pr
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The American Radical Press: 1880-1960by Joseph R. ConlinISBN 083716625X (0-8371-6625-X)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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The Battle for Homestead 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steelby Paul KrauseISBN 0822954664 (0-8229-5466-4)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Ben Tillman & the Reconstruction of White Supremacyby Stephen David KantrowitzISBN 0807848395 (0-8078-4839-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societiesby Frederick Cooper, Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. HoltISBN 0807848549 (0-8078-4854-9)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Thomas Holt focuses on emancipation in Jamaica and the contested meaning of citizenship in defining and redefining the concept of freedom; Rebecca Scott investigates the complex struggles and cross-racial alliances that evolved in southern Louisiana and Cuba after the end of slavery; and Frederick Cooper examines the intersection of emancipation and imperialism in French West Africa. In their introduction, the authors address issues of citizenship, labor, and race, in the post-emancipation period and they point the way toward a fuller understanding of the meanings of freedom. [via]
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Beyond Sweatshops: Foreign Direct Investment and Globalization in Developing Nationsby Theodore H. MoranISBN 0815706154 (0-8157-0615-4)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluthby Richard Hudelson, Carl RossISBN 0816646376 (0-8166-4637-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Can Unions Survive?: The Rejuvenation of the American Labor Movementby Charles B. CraverISBN 0814715125 (0-8147-1512-5)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry 1930-1950by Vicki L. RuizISBN 0826309887 (0-8263-0988-7)
Softcover, Univ of New Mexico Pr
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The Challenge of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements in Global Perspectiveby Amrita Basu, C. Elizabeth McGroryISBN 0813326281 (0-8133-2628-1)
Softcover, Westview Pr
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Common Sense for Hard Times: The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday Life and Transform Society in the Nineteen Seventiesby Jeremy Brecher, Tim CostelloISBN 0846701499 (0-8467-0149-9)
Hardcover, Two Continents Pub. Group
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The Communist Manifestoby K. Marx, Mark CowlingISBN 0814715761 (0-8147-1576-1)
Hardcover, New York Univ Pr
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The Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels: With the Original Text and Prefacesby Harold Joseph LaskiISBN 0816492522 (0-8164-9252-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economyby Karl MarxISBN 084641287X (0-8464-1287-X)
Hardcover, Beekman Books Inc
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Convicts, Coal and the Banner Mine Tragedyby Robert D. Ward, William W. RogersISBN 0817303049 (0-8173-0304-9)
Hardcover, University of Alabama Press
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Crusade for the Children: A History of the National Child Labor Committee and Child Labor Reform in Americaby Walter I. TrattnerISBN 081290141X (0-8129-0141-X)
Hardcover, Quadrangle Books
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Cutting into the Meatpacking Line: Workers and Change in the Rural Midwestby Deborah FinkISBN 0807846953 (0-8078-4695-3)
Softcover, University of North Carolina Press
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Daughters of the Great Depressionby Laura HapkeISBN 0820319082 (0-8203-1908-2)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Death Underground: The Centralia And West Frankfort Mine Disastersby David Kenney, Robert E. HartleyISBN 0809327066 (0-8093-2706-6)
Softcover, Southern Illinois Univ Pr
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The Dollmakerby Harriette ArnowISBN 0813115442 (0-8131-1544-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kentucky
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dollmaker'Book summary:Strong-willed, self-reliant Gertie Nevel's peaceful life in the Kentucky hills was devastated by the brutal winds of change. Uprooted form their backwoods home, she and her family were thrust into the confusion and chaos of wartime Detroit. And in a pitiless world of unendurable poverty, Gertie would battle fiercely and relentlessly to protect those things she held most precious--her children, her heritage...and her triumphant ability to create beauty in the suffocating shadow of ugliness and despair. [via]
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Domesticating Slavery: The Master Class in Georgia and South Carolina, 1670-1837by Jeffrey Robert YoungISBN 0807847763 (0-8078-4776-3)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, Men, and Women in Columbia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960by Ann Farnsworth-AlvearISBN 0822324970 (0-8223-2497-0)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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The Evolution of Political Protest and the Workingmen's Party of Californiaby Neil Larry ShumskyISBN 0814205518 (0-8142-0551-8)
Hardcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War IIby Timothy J. Minchin, John David SmithISBN 0813029791 (0-8130-2979-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II'Book summary:[via]This is a concise yet wide-ranging and accessible synthesis of the experience of southern workers between World War II and the present, and it links its discussion to important debates in the field of southern history today.Timothy Minchin brings the story of southern labor up to date and places the workers' own experiences in the forefront of his account. He considers the central question of whether the modern South is still distinctive, arguing that the region's lower wages, lower rates of unionization, and legacy of racial segregation continue to set it apart. He stresses that southern workers have a rich history of labor activism, despite the fact that establishing lasting unionism in the region has been difficult.Drawing on a broad knowledge of primary sources and his own extensive archive of more than 200 interviews with southern workers, Minchin offers an overview of the past 70 years of southern labor history in combination with a lively and intimate sense of the human experience of the period. His oral histories include the voices of men and women, both black and white, and offer their insights not just on the workplace but also on their living conditions, political activities, and race relations.The book explores the experience of recent Latino migrants to the south and covers topical issues such as the decline of the textile industry, the catastrophic 1991 fire at a chicken-processing plant in North Carolina that killed 25 workers, and high-profile union efforts to organize Nissan's large factory in Smyrna, Tennessee. It also looks at patterns of economic change in the 20th-century South, such as the rise of the Sunbelt and the shift to a service-based economy.For all historians, students, and general readers interested in contemporary American events, this work offers a readable and much needed discussion of the field of modern southern labor history.More editions of Fighting Against the Odds: A History of Southern Labor Since World War II:
Flawed Victory: A New Perspective on the Civil Warby William L. BarneyISBN 0819112747 (0-8191-1274-7)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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Fragments of the Centuryby Michael HarringtonISBN 0841502838 (0-8415-0283-8)
Hardcover, Saturday Review Press
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The Grapes of Wrathby John SteinbeckISBN 0822204754 (0-8222-0475-4)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Grapes of Wrath'Book summary:When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940.
The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency."
The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak [via]
Harry, Tom, And Father Rice: Accusation And Betrayal In America's Cold Warby John P. HoerrISBN 0822942658 (0-8229-4265-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Homestead : The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel Townby William SerrinISBN 081291886X (0-8129-1886-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Hope And Danger in the New South City: Working-class Women And Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940by Georgina HickeyISBN 0820327727 (0-8203-2772-7)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921by Donald ColeISBN 0807854085 (0-8078-5408-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policyby Howard DickmanISBN 0812690028 (0-8126-9002-8)
Hardcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Labor Relations: An Integrated Perspectiveby Marvin J. Levine, Eugene C. HagburgISBN 082990168X (0-8299-0168-X)
Hardcover, West Pub Co
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Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americasby Leon FinkISBN 0822365936 (0-8223-6593-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Labor's Textby Laura HapkeISBN 0813528801 (0-8135-2880-1)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscapeby Don MitchellISBN 0816626936 (0-8166-2693-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New Southby Leon Fink, Alvis E. DunnISBN 0807854476 (0-8078-5447-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Men Who Lead Laborby John Stuart, Bruce MintonISBN 0836913094 (0-8369-1309-4)
Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press
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Mexican Workers and the American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939by Camille Guerin-GonzalesISBN 0813520487 (0-8135-2048-7)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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Mills and Factories of New Englandby Serge HambourgISBN 0810914484 (0-8109-1448-4)
Hardcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Minnesota Farmer-Laborism: The Third-Party Alternativeby Millard L. GieskeISBN 0816608903 (0-8166-0890-3)
Hardcover, University of Minnesota Press
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in Americaby Elliott J. GornISBN 0809070944 (0-8090-7094-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Mother Jones was on the brink of old age when she began her public life, and her early years have long been shrouded in obscurity. Elliott J. Gorn has uncovered them here, as he not only interprets her career as an agitator but also looks back at her emigration from Ireland, her work as schoolteacher and dressmaker, the tragic early deaths of her husband and children, and the "lost years" when she faded from view altogether. In so doing, he shows how great world events (the Irish potato famine, the cholera epidemic) affected the course of her life and thus the life of the American labor movement. In short, Gorn makes it clear why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever." [via]
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Murder in America: A Historyby Roger LaneISBN 0814207332 (0-8142-0733-2)
Softcover, Ohio State University Press
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My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble With Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workersby Karen Brodkin Sacks, Dorothy Remy, Karen BrodkinISBN 0813510392 (0-8135-1039-2)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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The People of the Abyssby Jack LondonISBN 0839811705 (0-8398-1170-5)
Hardcover, Literature House
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The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940by Mark H. Haller, Allen Freeman DavisISBN 0812216709 (0-8122-1670-9)
Softcover, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
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Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society: White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augusta's Hinterlandsby J. William HarrisISBN 0819561630 (0-8195-6163-0)
Softcover, Proquest Info & Learning
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The Political Economy of Marxby J.E. King, M.C. HowardISBN 0814734537 (0-8147-3453-7)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern Southby Michelle BrattainISBN 0820326046 (0-8203-2604-6)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Race, Class, and Community in Southern Labor Historyby Gary M. Fink, Merl Elwyn ReedISBN 0817307192 (0-8173-0719-2)
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Reconstructing Reconstruction: The Supreme Court and the Production of Historical Truthby Pamela BrandweinISBN 0822323168 (0-8223-2316-8)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877by Eric FonerISBN 0844671738 (0-8446-7173-8)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Red Alert: Educators Confront the Red Scare in American Public Schools, 1947-1954by Stuart J. FosterISBN 0820440507 (0-8204-4050-7)
Softcover, Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor:a Cause without Rebels: A Cause without Rebelsby Peter N. StearnsISBN 0813506883 (0-8135-0688-3)
Hardcover, Rutgers University Press
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The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892by David Montgomery, Fannia Weingartner, David DemarestISBN 0822954788 (0-8229-5478-8)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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Signs of Their Times: History, Labor, and the Body in Cobbett, Carlyle, and Disraeliby John McAllister UlrichISBN 0821414011 (0-8214-1401-1)
Hardcover, Ohio Univ Pr
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The Skilled Metalworkers of Nuremberg: Craft and Class in the Industrial Revolutionby Michael J. NeufeldISBN 0813513944 (0-8135-1394-4)
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Social Text: The Yale Strike Dossierby Cary NelsonISBN 0822364433 (0-8223-6443-3)
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State and Revolutionby V.I. LeninISBN 0835103722 (0-8351-0372-2)
Softcover, China Books & Periodicals
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The Story of a Labor Agitatorby Joseph Ray BuchananISBN 0836956443 (0-8369-5644-3)
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A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence, 1916-1921by David J. GoldbergISBN 0813513723 (0-8135-1372-3)
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Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selvesby Mary Beth MillsISBN 081352654X (0-8135-2654-X)
Softcover, Rutgers Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves'Book summary:Most research on female labor migration in Thailand focuses on that country's infamous sex industry. Mary Beth Mills offers the first extended ethnographic analysis of rural women's movement into less visible occupations, paying particular attention to the hundreds of thousands of young women who fill the factories and sweatshops of the Bangkok metropolis. Mills follows the women as they travel from the village of Baan Naa Sakae to Bangkok, where they encounter new forms of consumption, new "modern" lifestyles, and a new sense of identity. She finds this rural-urban migration is more than a simple economic activity, but rather an elaborate process of cultural change.[via]
Mills describes the environments from which these women left, as well as the urban landscape they now call home. Hence, she examines key aspects of rural Thai community life, such as local consumption practices, gender roles, and the familial tensions that are often the catalyst to labor migration. Then she focuses on the city and the underlying tensions of urban employment as migrants pursue newly imagined identities as modern women, while still upholding economic and moral responsibilities to rural kin.More editions of Thai Women in the Global Labor Force: Consuming Desires, Contested Selves:
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Those Without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalistsby Michael Miller ToppISBN 0816636508 (0-8166-3650-8)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Topp traces the rise and fall of the Italian American syndicalist movement from the turn of the twentieth century to the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. His use of Italian-language sources, combined with his attention to transnationalism and masculinity, provides new vantage points on a range of related topics, including the 1912 Lawrence, Massachusetts, textile workers' strike, the impact of World War I on this immigrant community, and the genesis of both fascism and antifascism. Those without a Country brings forward fascinating new material to revise and refine our views of not only Progressive Era radicalism but immigration, gender, and working-class history as well.
Michael Miller Topp is associate professor in the history department at the University of Texas, El Paso. [via]
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Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21by Lon SavageISBN 0822954265 (0-8229-5426-5)
Softcover, Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
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The origins of this civil war were in the Draconian rule of the coal companies over the fiercely proud miners of Appalachia. It began in the small railroad town of Matewan when Mayor C. C. Testerman and Police Chief Sid Hatfield sided with striking miners against agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, who attempted to evict the miners from company-owned housing. During a street battle, Mayor Testerman, seven Baldwin-Felts agents, and two miners were shot to death.
Hatfield became a folk hero to Appalachia. But he, like Testerman, was to be a martyr. The next summer, Baldwin-Felts agents assassinated him and his best friend, Ed Chambers, as their wives watched, on the steps of the courthouse in Welch, accelerating the miners rebellion into open warfare.
Much neglected in historical accounts, Thunder in the Mountains is the only available book-length account of the crisis in American industrial relations and governance that occured during the West Virginia mine war of 1920-21.
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Under the Hawthorn Treeby Marita Conlon-McKenna, Donald TeskeyISBN 0823408388 (0-8234-0838-8)
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Victorian Writing and Working Womenby Julia SwindellsISBN 0816614776 (0-8166-1477-6)
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Wages and Hours: Labor and Reform in Twentieth-Century Americaby Ronnie SteinbergISBN 0813509165 (0-8135-0916-5)
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The War on Labor and the Left: Understanding America's Unique Conservatismby Patricia Cayo SextonISBN 0813310636 (0-8133-1063-6)
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Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisisby Cary NelsonISBN 0816630348 (0-8166-3034-8)
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Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynnby Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Rosalyn Fraad BaxandallISBN 0813512417 (0-8135-1241-7)
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Work Songsby Ted GioiaISBN 0822337266 (0-8223-3726-6)
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Work, Society, and Cultureby Yves R. SimonISBN 0823209172 (0-8232-0917-2)
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Workers, War and the Origins of Apartheid: Labour & Politics in South Arica, 1939-48by Peter AlexanderISBN 0821413155 (0-8214-1315-5)
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Working Detroit: The Making of a Union Townby Steve BabsonISBN 0814318193 (0-8143-1819-3)
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The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century Americaby Eric Foner, James R. GreenISBN 080909830X (0-8090-9830-X)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century Americaby James R. GreenISBN 0809001322 (0-8090-0132-2)
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