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Sputnik (2020)

Sowjetunion 1983. Nachdem der Kontakt zur Besatzung bereits einen Tag zuvor vollständig abgebrochen gewesen ist, stürzt das sowjetische Raumschiff Orbita-4 schwer beschädigt auf heimatlichem Boden ab. Ein…

Jesse Chanin

Building Power, Breaking Power

"From 1965 to 2005, the United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) defied the South's conservative anti-union efforts to become the largest local in Louisiana. Jesse Chanin argues that UTNO accomplished and ma…

Merle Haggard

Hag: The Studio Recordings 1969 - 1976

The Memphis Blues Box: Original Recordings 1914 - 1969

Diese großartige neue 20CD-Box mit 534 Titeln und einem 360-seitigen Begleitbuch beschreibt den Blues, wie er in Memphis und von Musikern und Sängern aus Memphis und Umgebung aufgenommen wurde. Das Se…

Penny Simkin, Melissa Cheyney

The Birth Partner, Sixth Revised Edition

The Birth Partner, Sixth Revised Edition is an up-to-date, accessible resource for spouses, partners, and others who accompany an expectant mother through labor and birth, and an essential guide for doula…

Ana Avendaño

Solidarity Betrayed

A lifelong labour activist lifts the lid on sexual harassment in the trade union movement

Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel

C.O.W.L. 1964

"Settle in for what is sure to be an incredible ride!" —Nerd Initiative It's 1964, and C.O.W.L.—the Chicago Organized Workers League, the world's first superhero labor union—is going national! But with t…

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice

The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice presents an alternative approach to sociological research that begins with community engagement and political commitments focused on social justice. The…

Jane F. Mcalevey

No Shortcuts

The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more…

Daniel J Galvin

Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers' Rights

"Over the last half century, two major historical developments have transformed the nature of workers' rights and fundamentally altered the ability of low-wage workers to combat their exploitation. First,…

Farah Kobaissy

Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon

A study of workers' rights in a non-unionized field in Lebanon This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronti…

Kim Kelly

Fight to Win!

The revelatory history of the American labor movement, from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly, now adapted for young readers. The history of American labor is full of incred…

J Albert Mann

Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States

"You need to work to live. That's the truth for most people, and plenty of people in power have been abusing that truth for centuries. Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew wh…

Samuel Ornitz,

Haunch Paunch and Jowl

Long out of print, Samuel Ornitz's Haunch, Paunch, & Jowl (1923) deserves the renewed attention it has received as a lost classic of modernist Jewish-American literature. The novel provides a panorama of …

Ken Reiman

Ron Carey and the Teamsters

"In this riveting account, retired UPS driver and unionist, Ken Reiman, gives us the first in-depth portrait of Ron Carey as he rose from a local union officer in the mid-1960s, to president of what was, …

Karen G J Lewis, Elizabeth Todd-Breland

I Didn't Come Here to Lie

An intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan. In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chica…

Bernie Ziegner

Tapping In To Murder

Jim Randolph is hired to install high-tech communications equipment in a newly constructed office building. In addition to the enginnering challenge, Jim finds that the building is being constructed by a …

Robert Bruno

What Work Is

"For more than twenty years, Robert Bruno has taught labor history and labor studies to union members from a wide range of occupations and demographic groups. In the class, he asked his students to finish…