| "The Great Depression: A Nation in Distress"- Eds Janet Beyer and JoAnne B. Weisman. Discovery Ent. Ltd. Carlisle, MA. 1995. From the Perspectives on History series- An overview of the "Crash of '29" through excerpts from interviews, magazines and news articles, letters & historic photos providing a vivd flavor of the human suffering brought on by the economy's massive breakdown. $6.95. "A Hubert Harrison Reader"- Ed. Jeffrey B. Perry. Wesleyan Univ. Press, Middletown CT. 2001. Collection of turn-of-the-century essays, editorials, reviews, letters, and diary entries of Hubert Henry Harrison, the "father of Harlem radicalism". Paperback, autographed by editor- $25.00. "The Immigrant Expereince" Series with introductory essay by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Chelsea House Publishers, NY. Celebrates the diverse ethnicity that created America and tells the story of specific immigrant populations, including their history, culture and achievments as well as the immgrant experience. Books available for Koreans, Arabs, chinese, Russians, Polish, Japanese, Romanians, Irish, Jews, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Africans, Swedes, Greeks, Germans, Slovaks, South Americans. Hardcover $14.95. Softcover $9.95. "Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz" By Paul Buhke & Mike Alewitz. Montly Review Press, NY. 2002. Filled with color reproductions, the book discusses the work of this prolific U.S. labor muralist. $27.95. "Italian Women in Black Dresses"- By Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Guernica, Toronto. 2002. Poetry and memoir detailing Italian- American family in Paterson, NJ. Paperback $13.00. "Kids At Work: Lewis Hine &the Crusade Against Child Labor" By Russel Freedman, photos by Lewis Hine. Clarion Books, NY. Poignant black & white photograhy depicting child labor in the early 20th century. Hardcover "Coffee Table" book $20.00, paperback $9.95. "Labor In The Schools: How To Do It!" By AFL-CIO Education Department- Provides help in how to infuse information about unions, the trade union movement and its contributions to workers and to American society into the schools' cirricula. $5.00. "Labor Struggle in the Post Office"- By John Walsh & Garth Mangum. M.E. Sharpe Inc., Armonk, NY. A historical study of the American Postal Workers Union. Hardcover $22.95. "A Labor Viewpoint: Another Opinion"- By Sol Chick Chaikin, forward by Sen. D.P. Moynihan. Library Research Associates, Monroe, NY. Inflation, unemployment, skyrocketing energy costs, and US factory closings are discussed by an organizer of the Internationsl Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. $6.00. "Landmark Guild Cookbook"- Collection of ethnic family recipes complied by the Landmark Guild. $6.00. "Leaps of Faith"- By Rachel Kranz. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, NY. 2002. This novel revolves around a union strike which demonstrates the power in working together toward common goals. Ms Kranz has worked as a rank-and-file union organizer and a temporary secretary and has won awards for her radio reporting and video documentaries. Hardcover $25.00. "Life and Time in Silk City"- By John A. Herbst & Cathrine Keene. A photographic essay dealing with the silk manufacturing industry in Paterson, NJ and including photographs of both millworker and millworker famllies. Paperback $5.00 "The Little Red Songbook, 36th Edition"- One hundred labor songs with music from around the world. Contributors include Billy Bragg, Ewan MacColl, Joe Hill, and dozens more. Paperback $10.00. "Living My Life"- By Emma Goldman. New American Library, Inc. NY. Autobiography of the Russian immigrant, committed anarchist and labor agitator. Paperback $9.95. "The Lowell Mill Girls: Life in the Factory"- Ed. JoAnne Weisman. Discovery Enterprises Ltd.,MA. 1991. From the Perspectives on History series. Acollection of essays and historical fiction oresenting different perspectives on the history of Lowell's female operatives in the 1840s. $6.95. "Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto"-By Dan La Botz. South End Press. Explores the new labor movement of Indonesia. Paperbacl $18.00. "Memoirs of a Wobbly"- By Henry E. McGuckin. Charles H. Kerr Publishing, Chicago, IL. Recollections of the author about the unsung thousands of militant working men and women in the 1910s and the inside story of how they lived, worked, organized, ran their legendary strikes & free speech fights and fanned the flames of discontent across America. $7.00. "Men at Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines"- By Lewis W. Hine. Paperback-$9.95. "A Molly Maguire Story"-By Patrick Campbell. Princeton University Press, NJ. accoint of an investigation regarding the execution of Irish Americans accused of being members of the Molly Maguires, a terrorist group. The author exposes the legal system that victimized the Irish in the 1870s. $11.95. "My Shaping-Up Years: The Early Life of Labor's Great Reprter"- By Art Shields. International Publishers, NY. 1982.Shields brings humor, life, and dimension tothe incidents of labor history in which he participated. Paperback $4.95. Organized Labor: Poems on life, death and love by Daniel P. Quinn, Bloomington, ID Author-house, 2004 $15.75 |
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