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Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits
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Linda Gordon and Dorothea Lange (Photography) |
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We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos—the migrant mother"holding her child, the gaunt men forlornly waiting in breadlines—but few know the arc of her extraordinary life. In this sweeping account, renowned historian Linda Gordon charts Lange's journey from polio-ridden child to wife and mother, to San Francisco portrait photographer, to chronicler of the Great Depression and World War II. Gor...
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Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine
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This shares much in common with Z Magazine. It's monthly. It's fiercely anti-capitalist, and independent. It's superb. It ought to be mandatory reading for anyone/everyone w ho cares even a teensy bit about what's going on, and how to change it for the better. Each month brings one a digest-sized, spined, 64 page magazine, typically with three lengthy essays/articles, and a plethora of reviews, and an...
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Yardbird Blues: Twenty-Five Years of a Wobbly in the Maritime Industry
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Arthur Miller |
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The book is about real workplace experiences and issues in the maritime industry such as workplace safety, general working conditions, environmentalism and how to begin to make earth-safe ships, the bosses, the unions, different types of ships, the great danger to workers and the environment of FOC ships and more. All from the viewpoint of a wobbly twenty-five years in the Maritime industry.
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Work: 2011 Calendar
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Justseeds Artists' Collective (Artwork by) |
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The calendar is available for preorder! It will ship to you mid-October!
From the Justseeds Artists' Collective and AK Press comes a fun intervention into the discursive world around work. Our 2011 calendar explores the theme of what work is, and should be, through the lens of thirteen different artists, all with very different visual styles and approaches. From the pleasure of work itself, to the ...
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Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel
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Nunzio Pernicone |
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“I have sought with all my strength to elevate the moral and material conditions of the Italian workers here, and I have sought to instill in their souls the same faith in their emancipation that is alive in me. I am a soldier of the ideal.”―Carlo Tresca, 1923
Arriving in America in 1904, Carlo Tresca began a nearly forty-year stretch as an active revolutionary. Nunzio Pernicone's definitive...
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The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933–1940
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Irving Bernstein and Frances Fox Piven (Introduction by) |
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From the birth of the CIO to the sit-down strikes that helped to organize the auto industry, the 1930s have come to define the high point of labor militancy. In this groundbreaking work of labor history, Irving Bernstein uncovers a period when industrial trade unionism, working-class power, and socialism became rallying cries for millions of workers in the fields, mills, mines, and factories of America.
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The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker, 1920–1933
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Irving Bernstein and Frances Fox Piven (Introduction by) |
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The textbook history of the 1920s is a story of Prohibition, flappers, and unbounded prosperity. For millions of industrial workers, however, the "roaring twenties" looked very different. Working-class communities were already in crisis in the years before the stock market crash of 1929. Strikes in the 1920s and attempts to organize the unemployed and fight evictions in the early 1930s often fell victim to p...
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Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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Jefferson Cowie |
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An epic account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the '70s, Stayin' Alive is a wide-ranging cultural and political history that presents the decade in a whole new light. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book—part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and TV lore—makes new sense of the '70s as...
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Malcolm X, Black Liberation & the Road to Workers Power
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Jack Barnes |
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The foundations for the explosive rise of the Black liberation struggle in the U.S. beginning in the mid-1950s were laid by the massive migration of Blacks from the rural South to cities and factories across the continent, drawn by capital's insatiable need for labor power—and cannon fodder for its wars. Malcolm X emerged from this rising struggle as its outstanding single leader. He insisted that colo...
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