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The Great Bridge

The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge
 
by David McCullough

High Steel

Building the Bridges Across San Francisco Bay


by Richard Dillon, et al


Empire State Building
 Picture Book

 

 

Panama Canal


Historic Pictures

 

Taking Care of Business

Samuel Gompers, George Meany,
 Lane Kirkland, and
the Tragedy of American Labor

The Union Stewards Guide

Organizing to Win:

 Union Strategies

 

Betrayal of
 Local 14

From The Ashes Of the Old:

American Labor and
America's Future

 

 Confessions of a Union Buster


Not Your Father's
Union Movement

 

Buried Unsung :


Louis Tikas and the
Ludlow Massacre

Lexicon of Labor

Historical insights concerning labor.

 

Ravenswood:
Steelworker's Victory

 

The Working Class Majority


America's best kept secret.

 

Every Employees
Guide to the Law
:

 Everything You Need to Know About Your Rights in the Workplace and What to Do If They Are Violated.

Shifting Fortunes:
The Rise and Decline
of American Labor

1820's to Present

 Why Unions Matter The Transformation of U.S. Unions :

Voices, Visions, and Strategies from the Grassroots (Transformations in Politics and Society)


by Ray M. Tillman , Michael S. Cummings

 

 A Short History of the U.S. Working Class :

 From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Revolutionary Studies)

by Paul Le Blanc

 What Workers Want


by Richard B. Freeman, Joel Rogers

 

Three Strikes

    Chicago Tribune labor writer Franklin vividly describes    the impact of three strikes on union workers in
Decatur, IL. Union members who had worked their entire lives for Caterpillar, Staley, or Bridgestone/Firestone were forced out on strike, threatened with permanent replacement, and, if lucky, called back to work under a company-imposed contract full of concessions. Franklin tells the story from the viewpoint of production workers caught between aggressive corporations and an aging union

by Stephen Franklin, William Serrin

 The State of Working America 2000-2001

 

by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, John Schmitt

  The Widening Gap:

Why America's Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done About It

by Jody Heymann

 Three Strikes:

Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century


by Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, Robin D. G. Kelley

 

 

 

 

 

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