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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Sensational, engrossing, and heartbreaking, The Mysteries of Paris is doubtless one of the most entertaining and influential works to emerge from the nineteenth century. It was one of France's first serial novels, and for sixteen months, Parisians rushed in droves to the newsstands each week for the latest installment. Eugène Sue's intricate melodrama unfolds around a Paris where, despite the gulf between them, the fortunes of the rich and poor are...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories...
Publisher
Broadview Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Factory Lives contains four works of great importance in the field of nineteenth-century working-class autobiography: John Brown's A Memoir of Robert Blincoe; William Dodd's A Narrative of the Experience and Sufferings of William Dodd; Ellen Johnston's "Autobiography"; and James Myles's Chapters in the Life of a Dundee Factory Boy." "This Broadview edition also includes a remarkably rich selection of historical documents that provide context for...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"A book on why most things are more expensive or lower quality, and why we're all still working long hours for the same or lower wages. Does it ever seem like most things you buy are more expensive or not as good as they once were, or both? Does it ever seem odd that, despite having access to much better communication and cheaper transportation, we're all working just as many hours and for the same wages as workers decades ago? Well, we now know you're...
71) Facing windows
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Italiano
Description
Giovanna is a young working-class wife and mother, who has no time for the senile elderly man her husband has rescued from the streets. But as she uncovers the stranger's secrets, it unlocks a freedom within her heart she never expected; a freedom that will lead her to the arm of a neighbor she secretly adores, and to fulfillment her husband and family cannot provide.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Cissie Brodie, a 16 year old girl, struggles to hold her family together after their parents die in the cholera epidemic of 1832. Her turbulent life takes a cruel turn after she is raped and left pregnant. Eventually she is forced to make a decision between two men who profoundly influence her life
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Description
A compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also one of the most censored) chose his subjects from the bottom of Chinese society: people for whom the "new" China--the China of economic growth and globalization--is no more beneficial than the old. Here are a professional...
76) The cinder path
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
"His harsh upbringing in Edwardian England makes Charlie wonder if his life will always be the same." --
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Language
English
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“His aim is to make the history of labor in the U.S. more accessible to students and the general reader. He succeeds” (Booklist).
In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation.
Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity,...
In a blend of economic, social, and political history, Paul Le Blanc shows how important labor issues have been, and continue to be, in the forging of our nation.
Within a broad analytical framework, he highlights issues of class, gender, race, and ethnicity,...
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Language
English
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Description
"Set in a nineteenth-century village in the northern English countryside so familiar to Cookson, this heart-warming epic tale is a rich tapestry blending the historical detail, engrossing story, and memorable characters that readers have come to expect of this author. ... Catherine Cookson has created one of her most unforgettable heroines, Bridget Mordaunt, who oversees with a firm but loving hand the candle and blacking factories she inherited as...