Labor History

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Teamsters Metropolis

By Ryan Patrick Murphy
Subjects: History, Labor History, American History, Sexuality Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

How an unruly union culture helped workers establish comfortable, suburban living

The Postdevelopmental State

Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

By Jamie Doucette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, History, Labor History, Economics, Economic Theory, Cultural Studies, Activism
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Examining the struggle to align high-growth economic models with the egalitarian promises of democracy

Memory, Meaning, and Resistance

Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins

By Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, African American Studies, History, Labor History, Race and Ethnicity

A pioneering oral historian analyzes recurring themes in the lives of poor and working-class women
 

Making Waves

Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000

By Scott M Peters
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, History, Labor History, Maritime

An entertaining study of how Michigan put American boat building on the map

The Glass City

Toledo and The Industry That Built It

By Barbara L Floyd
Subjects: History, Labor History, American Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

The story of Toledo glass—past, present, and future

Moisture of the Earth

Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist

Edited by Fran Leeper Buss
Subjects: Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, History, Labor History, African American Studies
Series: Class : Culture

A voice from the margins that refuses to be silenced

You Work Tomorrow

An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41

Edited by John Marsh
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, American Literature, History, Labor History
Series: Class : Culture

The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression

Let Me Live

By Angelo Herndon
Introduction by Marlon Ross
Subjects: African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History, Labor History
Series: Class : Culture

The passionate prison autobiography of Angelo Herndon, Communist union organizer of the 1930s

"Without Blare of Trumpets"

Walter Drew, The National Erectors' Association, and the Open Shop Movement, 1903-1957

By Sidney Fine
Subjects: History, American History, Labor History

A critical era in the development of American labor relations

Railroad Labor Disputes

The Beginnings of Federal Strike Policy

By Gerald Eggert
Subjects: History, Labor History, Economics, Industrial Organization

Explores the United States' first national labor crisis—the railroad strikes of the 19th century

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