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It is a house on the beach Honora doesn't mind renting-- the perfect place for a new marriage. She and Sexton throw themselves into fixing it up. Each morning Honora collects sea glass washed up on the shore. Each piece has a different story in its muted hues. Sexton finds a way to buy the house, but his finances take a plunge. Honora begins to see how little she knows the man she has married.
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One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
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xxviii, 418 pages ; 24 cm
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An inclusive history of the labor movement examines the workers and organizers--freed black women, Jewish immigrants, Asian American field workers, and queer labor leaders--who risked their livelihoods to fight for fair wages, better working conditions, and an eight-hour workday.
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In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own, stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike springs from his tragic idealism, from the "courage never to submit or yield."
5) Audacity
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
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389 pages : illustration, photographs ; 22 cm
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"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs ; 27 cm
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"The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered...
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"In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the coal-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man...
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Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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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.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2012
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104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
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Explores how the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Dr. King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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vii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
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"The thesis is simple: Inequality is America's biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix this problem. But the labor movement of today has failed to enable enough individuals to join unions. Thus, organized labor's powerful potential is being wielded incompetently. And what is happening inside of organized labor will-far more than most people realize--determine the economic and social course of American...
14) The ford
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
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xvi, 440 p. ; 21 cm.
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