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Author: Thomas Geoghegan
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Unparalleled in the literature of American labor."-New York Times. A marvelous portrait of the struggle to preserve a way of life through the voices of his blue-collar clients' grievances with their slowly corrupting unions.
Author: Ryan Lee Wong
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1646222024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLonglisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful—and funny—debut novel of generational change, a mother’s secret, and an activist’s coming-of-age Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the Black Lives Matter movement. But would that truly bring him closer to the moral life he seeks? In a series of intimate, charged conversations, his mother—once the leader of a Korean-Black coalition—demands that he rethink his outrage, and along with it, what it means to be an organizer, a student, an ally, an American, and a son. As Reed zips around his hometown of Los Angeles with his mother, searching and questioning, he faces a revelation that will change everything. Inspired by his family’s roots in activism, Ryan Lee Wong offers an extraordinary debut novel for readers of Anthony Veasna So, Rachel Kushner, and Michelle Zauner: a book that is as humorous as it is profound, a celebration of seeking a life that is both virtuous and fun, an ode to mothering and being mothered.
Author: George Ella Lyon
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2014-01-01
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13: 1935955357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhich Side Are You On? tells the story of the classic union song that was written in 1931 by Florence Reece in a rain of bullets. It has been sung by people fighting for their rights all over the world. Florence's husband Sam was a coal miner in Kentucky. Many of the coal mines were owned by big companies, who kept wages low and spent as little money on safety as possible. Miners lived in company houses on company land and were paid in scrip, good only at the company store. The company owned the miners sure as sunrise. That's why they had to have a union. Miners went on strike until they could get better pay, safer working conditions, and health care. The company hired thugs to attack union organizers like Sam Reece. George Ella Lyon tells this hair-raising story through the eyes of one of Florence's daughters, a dry-witted, pig-tailed gal whose vantage point is from under the bed with her six brothers and sisters. The thugs' bullets hit the thin doors and windows of the company house and the kids lying low wonder whether they're going to make it out of this alive; wonder exactly if this strike will make their lives better or end them, but their mother keeps scribbling and singing. "We need a song," she tells her kids. That's not at all what they think they need. Graphic novelist Christopher Cardinale brings Florence's triumphant story to life in true rip-roaring union style. Selected as an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society and a 2012 Skipping Stones Honor Book.
Author: James Sullivan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0190660309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anecdotal history of the progressive movements that have shaped the growth of the United States, and the songs that have accompanied and defined them
Author: John W. Hevener
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780252070778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetailing the dimensions of unionization and the balance of power spawned by New Deal labor policy after government intervention, this book is the definitive analysis of Harlan's bloody decade.
Author: Maurice Isserman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780252063367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynda Ann Ewen
Publisher: Vanguard Books (IL)
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 139
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Luca Ozzano
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1317365488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to understand the European political debate about contentious issues, framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century. It specifically focuses on the Italian case, which, due to its peculiar history and contemporary political landscape, is a paradigmatic case for the study of the relationships between religion and politics. In recent years, a number of controversies related to religious issues have characterised the European public debate at both the EU and the national level. The ‘affaire du foulard’ in France, the referendum on abortion in Portugal, the recognition of same-sex marriages in many Western European States, the debate over bioethics and the regulation of euthanasia are only a few examples of contentious issues involving religion. This book aims to shed light on the interrelation between these different debates, as well as their broader meaning, through the analysis of the paradigmatic case of Italy. Italy summarizes and sometimes exasperates wider European trends, both because of the peculiar role traditionally played by the Vatican in Italian politics and for the rise, since the 1990s, of new political entrepreneurs eager to exploit ethical and civilizational issues. This work will be of great interest to scholars and students of a number of fields within the disciplines of political science, sociology and law, and will be useful for courses on religion and politics, political parties, social movements and civil society.
Author: Pete Seeger
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 1997-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780825600241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the basic manual for banjo players at any level. Covers all the fundamentals of strumming, hammering-on, and pulling-off. Includes folk and traditional songs all with melody line, lyrics, and banjo accompaniment, and solos in standard notation and tablature.
Author: Dick Weissman
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780826419149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history, with a personal touch, of the American folk music revival is penned by a recording artist, songwriter, and former member of the Journeymen.
