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Publisher / Publication Date: Ann Arbor Press 1953
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 367 HISSchiavone, Michael.
Contents: The importance of the labor movement -- The rise and fall of organized labor -- Strategies to stop the decline -- SEIU and change to win : progressive or more of the same? -- Social justice unionism : a path to labor's renewal -- Nontraditional strategies -- Conclusion : a beginning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.8809 SCHSummary: In this program-a follow-up to the alarming 1960 broadcast Harvest of Shame, which first awakened the nation to the plight of migrant workers-correspondents Dan Rather and Randall Pinkston document the ongoing exploitation of America's invisible laborers while highlighting efforts being made to protect them. Topics of investigation include pesticide risks, the uneven enforcement of employment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Kelly, Kim
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.8097 KELDaughters of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: Daughters of the American Revolution 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.373Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin presents twenty-four 30-minute lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinct identity of the Americas today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.01 CONDaughters of the American Revolution
Summary: Highlights some of the members of the Daughters of the American Revolution who made an impact during the suffrage era. Book published to accompany an exhibit by the same name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 ORDChristie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot has already decided to retire, but first he will take on twelve remarkable cases in the contemporary world that correspond to the twelve labours of Hercules.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 1984
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Place a hold to request this item.Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: A revolutionary leads the overthrow of a repressive government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infrapress 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSons of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig)
Summary: Professor Marshall C. Eakin of Vanderbilt University delivers twenty-four lectures examining both the unity and diversity in the early history of the Americas. He discusses how Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Americas in 1492 created a collision between three distinct peoples and cultures, European, African, and Native-American, and gave birth to the distinctive identity of the Americas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Co. 2002
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 970 EAKCall number: CD 970 EAK PART 2
Dray, Philip.
Summary: From an award-winning historian, a stirring (and timely) narrative history of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 331.88 DRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.88 DRAMurolo, Priscilla
Summary: A comprehensive look at the history of the United States through the prism of working people. In this fully updated new edition, the authors have added a wealth of fresh analysis of labor's role in American life, and three entirely new chapters on global labor developments, worker activism in immigrant communities, and the 2016 election and unions' relationships to Trump. -- Adapted from back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331 MURSummary: Industrial labor since the dawn of civilization through ancient Egypt and Rome.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1957
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Summary: Industrial labor in the Machine Age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1957
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Lowe, Nick.
Contents: Cruel to be kind -- Cracking up -- Big kick, plain scrap! -- American squirm -- Born fighter -- You make me -- Skin deep -- Switchboard Susan -- Endless grey ribbon -- Without love -- Dose of you -- Love so fine -- Basing street (bonus track).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yep Roc 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOWSummary: Speakers include: Deborah Abbott, Jennifer Alford, Jan Meisels Allen, Jan Alpert, Ron Arons, Gordon Atkinson, Jen Baldwin, Warren Bittner, Angie Bush, Jason Butterfield, Rorey Cathcart, Linda Coffin, Audrey Collins, Lisa Louise Cooke, Deena Coutant, Billie Fogarty, Diane Florence Gravel, Michael Gugel, Hudson Gunn, Deborah Gurtler, Jane G. Haldeman, Cyndi Ingle, A.C. Ivory, Jordan Jones, Thomas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 FederationAdler, William M.
Summary: In 1914, Joe Hill was convicted of murder in Utah and sentenced to death by firing squad, igniting international controversy. Many believed Hill was innocent, condemned for his association with the Industrial Workers of the World, the radical Wobblies. Now, following four years of intensive investigation, the author gives us a biography of Joe Hill, and presents never before published...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HILL, JOE ADLKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "The idea of the American frontier means a lot to many Americans' images of themselves and their country. Everyone has heard stories or watched movies showing tough, brave settlers crossing the continent, daring harsh weather, hostile natives, and rough terrain to nobly "tame" the frontier and expand the United States. But is this image true to life? Young readers will get a wider perspective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779 FORThaggert, Miriam
Summary: "Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space of leisure and work. Riding Jane Crow examines four instances of Black female railroad travel: the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.896 THANational Museum of American History (U.S.)
Summary: "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 ENTDaughters of the American Revolution
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Society 1982
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 DAUPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Contents: Essays. Collecting the image of America : Charles Willson Peale's The artist in his museum and Samuel F.B. Morse's Gallery of the Louvre / Judith Russi Kirshner -- Painting the image of America : portraiture and genre in the 19th century / Elizabeth Milroy -- Americans in the landscape / D. Scott Atkinson -- American impressionism / Elizabeth Milroy -- America and the modernist spirit / D....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Museum of American Art 1987