Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the 1950s, Ellie and Brick are teenagers in love. A basketball star, Brick could escape his abusive father and be the first person in his working-class family to go to college. But when Ellie becomes pregnant, they marry, she gives up her dream of nursing school, and Brick gets a union card instead. This riveting novel tells the story of three generations in a working-class family; especially Brick and Ellie's daughter Samantha. Illuminating issues...
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Description
Two hard-nosed bosses scrap for control of America's largest union Born to a steelworker but harboring theatrical aspirations, Donald Cubbin grew up tempted by two careers. A Hollywood scout finally notices him, but Cubbin has already taken a job with the local union boss. He's always regretted that decision-especially now. After decades climbing the ranks, Cubbin runs the show as the union's president. An election looms, and his opponent proves...
4) Norma Rae
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
9) Labor unions
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explores the issues surrounding labor unions by placing opinions from a wide range of sources in a pro/con format. Features articles that express various perspectives on this topic.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"On the Line takes readers inside a bold five-year campaign to bring a union to the dangerous industrial laundry factories of Phoenix, Arizona. Workers here wash hospital, hotel, and restaurant linens and face harsh conditions: routine exposure to bio-hazardous waste, injuries from surgical tools left in hospital sheets, and burns from overheated machinery. Broken U.S. labor law makes it nearly impossible for them to fight back. The drive to unionize...
