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61) The edge of anarchy: the railroad barons, the Gilded Age, and the greatest labor uprising in America
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The dramatic story of the explosive 1894 clash of industry, labor, and government that shook the nation and marked a turning point for America.
Author
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
"Howard Zinn recounts the dramatic tale of the great coal mine strike in Colorado that culminated in the Ludlow Massacre. The story pits immigrant workers against the National Guard, Mother Jones against the Rockefellers, and corporate power against union organizing, a story that is all too familiar today." "With Dana Frank we join a sit-in strike in a Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression where young women slept on the floor, played games...
Author
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"In the summer of 1959, most of the town of Braddock, Pennsylvania---along with half a million steel workers around the country---went on strike in the longest labor stoppage in American history. With no paychecks coming in, the families of Braddock looked to its football team for inspiration. The Braddock Tigers had played for five amazing seasons, a total of 45 games, without a single loss. Heading into the fall of '59, this team from just outside...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for...
69) Sillas en huelga
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Enseña bondad a todas las personas y cosas. Un libro hilarante, con rimas y leído en voz alta que es perfecto para el primer o cualquier día de clases. --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Describes the strike in Ludlow, Colorado in 1913 over the right to organize a union and have it recognized by management, the violence and tragic ending to the strike, and how it has shaped the rights of workers today.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A picture book inspired by the Long Friday-a real event in Iceland that inspired women around the world to stand up, walk out, and march together for women's rightsVera and Mamma are headed out for a march, but it's not just any march: It's October 24 in Reykjavík, and on this day in 1975, the women of Iceland took the day off, walked out of their homes and away from their jobs-as farmworkers, butchers, and fisherwomen; wives, daughters, and children-and...
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Using historical footage and dramatic reenactments, this film focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights -- the grape strike and boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. Thousands of people from across the nation joined in a struggle for justice for the some of the most exploited people in the United States.
77) American Dream
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Description
In this Academy Award winner for best documentary in 1991, the true-life story of the 1985-1986 workers' strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Company in Austin, Minnesota is documented from beginning to end. When Geo. A. Hormel & Company made $2 million in profits, then cut its workers' salaries by $2.00 an hour each, the workers had only one option: Go out on strike. DVD format.
80) The nine lives of Charles E. Lively: the deadliest man in the west Virginia-Colorado coal mine wars
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"The West Virginia and Colorado Coal Mine Wars of the early twentieth century was a tumultuous and violent time in our nation's history. At the center of this saga is Charles Everett Lively, perhaps one of the deadliest of the undercover agents of the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. This book shines a light for the first time into the intrigue surrounding this controversial figure"--