Download or read book Mother Jones written by Connie Colwell Miller and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Mary "Mother" Jones, a leading labor union and child labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Written in graphic-novel format.
Download or read book A Lifetime of Labor written by Alice H. Cook and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is both graceful autobiography and perceptive social history that will be of lasting value." --Library Journal
Download or read book Strong in the Struggle written by Lee Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of his humble beginnings, Brown rose to become a top leader of an interracial union.
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Labor Leader written by James Hudson Maurer and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of American Labor Leaders written by Gary M. Fink and published by Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographys, trade union officers, leadership of labour movement and trade unions, USA - tables giving educational level, union affiliation, preferences regarding political party and religion.
Download or read book Fight Like Hell written by Kim Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue -- The trailblazers -- The garment workers -- The mill workers -- The revolutionaries -- The miners -- The harvesters -- The cleaners -- The freedom fighters -- The movers -- The metalworkers -- The disabled workers -- The sex workers -- The prisoners -- Epilogue.
Download or read book Not for Bread Alone written by Moe Foner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foner follows his development as an apolitical youth to a visionary whose pragmatism paved the way for legislation guaranteeing hospital workers the right to unionize. 32 photos.
Download or read book Journey for Justice written by Gayle Romasanta and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by historian Dawn Bohulano Mabalon with writer Gayle Romasanta, richly illustrated by Andre Sibayan, tells the story of Larry Itliong's lifelong fight for a farmworkers union, and the birth of one of the most significant American social movements of all time, the farmworker's struggle, and its most enduring union, the United Farm Workers.
Download or read book A Philip Randolph written by Cynthia Taylor and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship has portrayed A. Philip Randolph, an African American trade unionist as an atheist and anti-religious. Taylor places him within the context of American religious history and uncovers his complex relationship to African American religion.
Download or read book The Autobiography of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Autobiography of Mother Jones is a compelling account of the life and struggles of one of the most influential labor leaders in American history. Written in a straightforward, no-nonsense style, the book provides a firsthand look at the labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mother Jones does not shy away from detailing the harsh realities faced by workers and the lengths to which she went to fight for their rights. Her powerful voice and unwavering determination shine through the pages, making this autobiography a valuable primary source for understanding the labor movement of the time. Mother Jones, born Mary Harris Jones, was a fearless advocate for labor rights and social justice. Her personal experiences as a teacher, mother, and advocate for the disenfranchised shaped her beliefs and actions. The Autobiography of Mother Jones reflects her passion for justice and equality, offering readers a glimpse into the life of a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to the fight for workers' rights. I highly recommend The Autobiography of Mother Jones to readers interested in labor history, social activism, and women's contributions to the labor movement. Mother Jones' powerful narrative and unwavering commitment to social justice make this book a must-read for anyone seeking to understand the struggles and triumphs of the American labor movement.
Download or read book Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619 1981 written by Philip S. Foner and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic account, historian Philip Foner traces the radical history of Black workers' contribution to the American labor movement.
Download or read book Autobiography of Mother Jones written by Mother Jones and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mother Jones written by Elliott J. Gorn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Biography of the] celebrated organizer and agitator, the very soul of protest movements in the early twentieth century."--Jacket.
Download or read book Man of Fire written by Ernesto Galarza and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activist, labor scholar, and organizer Ernesto Galarza (1905–1984) was a leading advocate for Mexican Americans and one of the most important Mexican American scholars and activists after World War II. This volume gathers Galarza's key writings, reflecting an intellectual rigor, conceptual clarity, and a constructive concern for the working class in the face of America's growing influence over Mexico's economic system. Throughout his life, Galarza confronted and analyzed some of the most momentous social transformations of the twentieth century. Inspired by his youthful experience as a farm laborer in Sacramento, he dedicated his life to the struggle for justice for farm workers and urban working-class Latinos and helped build the first multiracial farm workers union, setting the foundation for the emergence of the United Farm Workers Union. He worked to change existing educational philosophies and curricula in schools, and his civil rights legacy includes the founding of the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). In 1979, Galarza was the first U.S. Latino to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, for works such as Strangers in Our Fields, Merchants of Labor, Barrio Boy, and Tragedy at Chualar.
Download or read book The Habit of Labor written by Stef Wertheimer and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s no better way to explain the miracle of Israel than to examine the life of Stef Wertheimer . . . A story to be read by everyone” (Warren Buffett). Forced to flee Nazi Germany with his family at age ten, Stef Wertheimer came to British Palestine in the late 1930s. He promptly dropped out of school, learned a trade through apprenticeship, and played a meaningful role in Israel’s War of Independence. He also started a company—ISCAR—that began in a shed and ultimately made him one of the world’s great self-made industrialists. In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares the lessons he learned from a life of hardship and struggle in one of the world’s newest industrial powers. Both a pragmatist and a visionary, Wertheimer has devoted much of his life to promoting Jewish and Arab economic development through innovative educational and vocational programs, along with the establishment of a series of thriving industrial parks in Israel and in Turkey. The future of Israel, he believes, is not in military might or diplomatic alliances but in its growing economic clout.
Download or read book All Labor Has Dignity written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning historian Michael K. Honey introduces and traces Dr. King's dream of economic equality. Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most readers. The collection begins with King's lectures to unions in the 1960s and includes his addresses made during his Poor People's Campaign, culminating with his momentous "Mountaintop" speech, delivered in support of striking black sanitation workers in Memphis. Unprecedented and timely, "All Labor Has Dignity" will more fully restore our understanding of King's lasting vision of economic justice, bringing his demand for equality right into the present.
Download or read book Work Work Work written by Michael D. Yates and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-23 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A potent glimpse into the behind-the-scenes workplace control mechanisms which prevent workers from defending themselves from exploitation For most economists, labor is simply a commodity, bought and sold in markets like any other – and what happens after that is not their concern. Individual prospective workers offer their services to individual employers, each acting solely out of self-interest and facing each other as equals. The forces of demand and supply operate so that there is neither a shortage nor a surplus of labor, and, in theory, workers and bosses achieve their respective ends. Michael D. Yates, in Work Work Work: Labor, Alienation, and Class Struggle, offers a vastly different take on the nature of the labor market. This book reveals the raw truth: The labor market is in fact a mere veil over the exploitation of workers. Peek behind it, and we clearly see the extraction, by a small but powerful class of productive property-owning capitalists, of a surplus from a much larger and propertyless class of wage laborers. Work Work Work offers us a glimpse into the mechanisms critical to this subterfuge: In every workplace, capital implements a comprehensive set of control mechanisms to constrain those who toil from defending themselves against exploitation. These include everything from the herding of workers into factories to the extreme forms of surveillance utilized by today’s “captains of industry” like the Walton family (of the Walmart empire) and Jeff Bezos. In these strikingly lucid and passionately written chapters, Yates explains the reality of labor markets, the nature of work in capitalist societies, and the nature and necessity of class struggle, which alone can bring exploitation – and the system of control that makes it possible – to a final end.
