Strikes books

194 books were found.

Striking Steel

Striking Steel

Author: Jack Metzgar
ISBN: 9781566397384
Format: Hardback
$215.16

Combining personal memoir and historical narrative, Striking Steel argues for reassessment of unionism in American...  Read More >>

Striking Steel

Striking Steel

Author: Jack Metzgar
ISBN: 9781566397391
Format: Paperback
$76.43

"Combining personal memoir and historical narrative, Striking Steel argues for reassessment of unionism in American...  Read More >>

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Author: Linda Markowitz
ISBN: 9780765604934
Format: Paperback
$92.99

"Demonstrates how different levels of participation - from simple ""participatory democracy"" to worker activism...  Read More >>

Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest

Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics...

Author: Gilbert G. González
ISBN: 9780292728240
Format: Paperback
$47.95

How Mexico attempted to control its American emigrants in the early 20th century.  Read More >>

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Author: Linda Markowitz
ISBN: 9780765604927
Format: Hardback
$368.00

"Demonstrates how different levels of participation - from simple ""participatory democracy"" to worker activism...  Read More >>

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920...

Author: Masayo Umezawa Duus ,  Beth Cary
ISBN: 9780520204850
Format: Paperback
$60.95

In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for...  Read More >>

Grounded: Reagan and the PATCO Crash

Grounded: Reagan and the PATCO Crash

Author: Michael Round ,  H. R. Viswanath
ISBN: 9780815335061
Format: Hardback
$232.00

This volume analyzes the rhetorical background and strategies of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization...  Read More >>

The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements

The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and...

Author: Julius G. Getman
ISBN: 9780801486289
Format: Paperback
$63.23

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Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877

Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877

Author: David O. Stowell
ISBN: 9780226776682
Format: Hardback
$163.95

"For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working...  Read More >>

Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877

Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877

Author: David O. Stowell
ISBN: 9780226776699
Format: Paperback
$46.95

"For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working...  Read More >>

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor

Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival...

Author: Tom Juravich ,  Kate Bronfenbrenner
ISBN: 9780801436338
Format: Hardback
$145.07

Since the late 1970s, Americans have seen their workplaces downsized and streamlined, their jobs out-sourced and...  Read More >>

No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario

No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against...

Author: David Rapaport ,  David Rapaport
ISBN: 9780773518650
Format: Paperback
$86.99

The Ontario Public Service Employee Union (OPSEU) was an early target of the Mike Harris Common Sense Revolutionaries,...  Read More >>

No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario

No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against...

Author: David Rapaport ,  David Rapaport
ISBN: 9780773518582
Format: Hardback
$250.80

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Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America

Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983...

Author: Jonathan D. Rosenblum
ISBN: 9780801485541
Format: Paperback
$63.23

An in-depth and gripping account of the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983.  Read More >>

Trade Unions and the Right to Strike

Trade Unions and the Right to Strike

Author: S.N. Dhyani
ISBN: 9788185488806
Format: Hardback
$62.07

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The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements

The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and...

Author: Julius G. Getman
ISBN: 9780801434761
Format: Hardback
$131.96

Recounts events surrounding the Adroscoggin Mill strike, wherein 1200 workers responded to paycuts (following executives'...  Read More >>

Silent Skies: The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike

Silent Skies: The Air Traffic Controllers' Strike

Author: Willis Nordlund
ISBN: 9780275961886
Format: Hardback
$131.00

A well-documented history of the one of the most important labor-management conflicts in American history, the Reagan...  Read More >>

Strike!

Strike!

Author: Jeremy Brecher
ISBN: 9780896085701
Format: Hardback
$105.60

Originally published in 1972, Strike! describes the story of repeated, massive and often violent revolts by ordinary...  Read More >>

Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike Of 1924-1925

Filipino Piecemeal Sugar Strike Of 1924-1925

Author: John E Reinecke
ISBN: 9780824818968
Format: Paperback
$60.72

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Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain

Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain...

Author: Andrew J. Richards
ISBN: 9781859731772
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Waged with complete unity, the strikes of 1972 and 1974 by British miners contributed to the downfall of a government,...  Read More >>

Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain

Miners on Strike: Class Solidarity and Division in Britain...

Author: Andrew J. Richards
ISBN: 9781859731727
Format: Hardback
$240.00

Waged with complete unity, the strikes of 1972 and 1974 by British miners contributed to the downfall of a government,...  Read More >>

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-class

Workfare: Ideology for a New Under-class

Author: Eric Shragge
ISBN: 9781551930107
Format: Paperback
$100.19

In addition to the myths, this book explores the reality of workfare, examining programs from across Canada, and...  Read More >>

Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983

Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike...

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780801483899
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Barbara Kingsolver's first non-fiction book is the story of women's lives transformed by an a signal event. Set...  Read More >>

The Great Coalfield War

The Great Coalfield War

Author: George S. McGovern ,  Leonard F. Gutteridge
ISBN: 9780870813818
Format: Paperback
$71.15

The classic study of one of America's most violent labor struggles.The effect of this work is simply enraging, for...  Read More >>

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