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![Manhood on the Line](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/22272547/manhood-on-the-line.jpg)
Manhood on the Line
Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers …
![A Renegade Union](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/6085278/a-renegade-union.jpg)
A Renegade Union
Dedicated to organizing workers from diverse racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, many of whom were considered "unorganizable" by other unions, the progressive New York …
![Labor's Mind](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/43719630/labors-mind.jpg)
Labor's Mind
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. …
![Redeeming Time](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/12683396/redeeming-time.jpg)
Redeeming Time
During the struggle for the eight-hour workday and a shorter workweek, Chicago emerged as an important battleground for workers in "the entire civilized world" to redeem time from …
![Disruption in Detroit](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/43704361/disruption-in-detroit.jpg)
Disruption in Detroit
It is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these …
![Labor's Cold War](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/4813140/labors-cold-war.jpg)
Labor's Cold War
Examining the impact of American Cold War politics on disparate local arenas, Labor's Cold War reveals that anticommunist challenges reshaped local political cultures and set the …
![Labor's Outcasts](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/62225356/labors-outcasts.jpg)
Labor's Outcasts
In the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. …
![Remembering Lattimer](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/43713852/remembering-lattimer.jpg)
Remembering Lattimer
On September 10, 1897, a group of 400 striking coal miners--workers of Polish, Slovak, and Lithuanian descent or origin--marched on Lattimer, Pennsylvania. There, law enforcement …
![A Matter of Moral Justice](https://s1.adlibris.com/images/59188996/a-matter-of-moral-justice.jpg)
A Matter of Moral Justice
A long-overlooked group of workers and their battle for rights and dignity Like thousands of African American women, Charlotte Adelmond and Dollie Robinson worked in New York’s …
![Dockworker Power](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/43690864/dockworker-power.jpg)
Dockworker Power
Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) and the Cornell ILR School, 2019 A Black Perspectives Best Black History Book of 2018 …
![Where Are the Workers?](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/61521409/where-are-the-workers.jpg)
Where Are the Workers?
The labor movement in the United States is a bulwark of democracy and a driving force for social and economic equality. Yet its stories remain largely unknown to Americans. Robert …
![Circus World](https://s2.adlibris.com/images/68369511/circus-world.jpg)
Circus World
From the 1870s to the 1960s, circuses crisscrossed the nation providing entertainment. A unique workforce of human and animal laborers from around the world put on the show. They …