Hard Labor and Hard Time
Author: Vivien M. L. Miller
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780813039855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the conditions of prison labor in Florida from 1913 to 1956.
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Hard Labor
Author: Sam Smith
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1633197468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOscar Robertson is known as one of the best players in NBA history, a triple-double machine who set the stage for the versatility of today's NBA superstars like LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, and Draymond Green. But The Big O's larger legacy may lie in spearheading the fight for his fellow players' financial equity and free agency, joined by fellow stars John Havlicek, Bill Bradley, Wes Unseld, and more. In Hard Labor, Sam Smith, best-selling basketball scribe emeritus and author of The Jordan Rules, unearths this incredible and untold fight for players' rights and examines the massive repercussions for the NBA and sports in the United States in the 40 years since. Diving into how "The 14" paved the way for the record-setting paydays for today's NBA players - stars and role players alike - as well as the harsh consequences faced by those involved in the lawsuit against the NBA, Hard Labor is an essential read for both NBA and sports fans alike.
Hard Labor
Author: Pat McKissack
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781415508312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the history of African Americans in seventh-century colonial America.
To Shoot Hard Labour
Author: Keithlyn Byron Smith
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : Edan's Publishers
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHard Labor
Author: Cesare Pavese
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2024-11-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1681378795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark translation of passionate, fiercely intelligent poetry about coming of age by one of the most influential Italian writers of the 20th Century. Cesare Pavese’s 1936 collection of poems, Lavorare stanca, is increasingly regarded as one of the most astonishing and powerful books of twentieth-century poetry. William Arrowsmith’s translations, accompanied here by the original Italian lyrics, capture the spirit and complex vitality of Pavese’s voice. This edition also contains a thorough introduction to Pavese’s work, notes to individual poems, and two critical essays that Pavese wrote about Lavorare stanca, the book by which he hoped to be remembered. “Lavorare stanca,” Pavese once declared, “is a book that might have saved a generation.”
Hard Work
Author: Rick Fantasia
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-06-16
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0520240901
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Prison Profiteers
Author: Tara Herivel
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1595584544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Prison Profiteers, co-editors Tara Herivel and Paul Wright "follow the money to an astonishing constellation of prison administrators and politicians working in collusion with private parties to maximize profits" (Publishers Weekly). From investment banks, guard unions, and the makers of Taser stun guns to health care providers, telephone companies, and the U.S. military (which relies heavily on prison labor), this network of perversely motivated interests has turned the imprisonment of one out of every 135 Americans into a lucrative business. Called "an essential read for anyone who wants to understand what's gone wrong with criminal justice in the United States" by ACLU National Prison Project director Elizabeth Alexander, this incisive and deftly researched volume shows how billions of tax dollars designated for the public good end up lining the pockets of those private enterprises dedicated to keeping prisons packed. "An important analysis of a troubling social trend" (Booklist) that is sure to inform and outrage any concerned citizen, Prison Profiteers reframes the conversation by exposing those who stand to profit from the imprisonment of millions of Americans.
Part Two of Life at Hard Labor
Author: Lee Mora
Publisher:
Published: 1972*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWake Up Dead Man
Author: Bruce Jackson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780820321585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking it in Hell, says Bruce Jackson, is the spirit behind the sixty-five work songs gathered in this eloquent dispatch from a brutal era of prison life in the Deep South. Through engagingly documented song arrangements and profiles of their singers, Jackson shows how such pieces as "Hammer Ring," "Ration Blues," "Yellow Gal," and "Jody's Got My Wife and Gone" are like no other folk music forms: they are distinctly African in heritage, diminished in power and meaning outside their prison context, and used exclusively by black convicts. The songs helped workers through the rigors of cane cutting, logging, and cotton picking. Perhaps most important, they helped resolve the men's hopes and longings and allowed them a subtle outlet for grievances they could never voice when face-to-face with their jailers.
