Labour America History

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    • The Invention of Dating
    • By: Moira Weigel
    • Narrated by: Kyra Miller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 17-05-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Weaving together over 100 years of history with scenes from the contemporary landscape, Labor of Love offers a fresh feminist perspective on how we came to date the ways we do....

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    • By: Erik Loomis
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • By: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • This new South End Press edition makes available the full text of this out-of-print classic - along with a new foreword by Manning Marable, interviews with participants in DRUM, and reflections on political developments over the past three decades by Georgakas and Surkin....

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    • First but Forgotten
    • By: Cristina Oxtra
    • Narrated by: uncredited
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 23-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • You may have learned about Cesar Chavez’s leadership in organizing the well-known Delano Grape Strike and Boycott of the 1960s. But did you know it began as a strike led by Larry Itliong?

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists
    • By: Gerald Horne
    • Narrated by: Hopper Stone
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 25-10-2021
    • Language: English
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    • As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946....

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • By: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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    • The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law
    • By: Clara Bingham, Laura Leedy Gansler
    • Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 28-11-2005
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is the thrilling story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States....

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    • Race and the Making of the American Working Class (Haymarket Series)
    • By: David R. Roediger, Kathleen Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis, and new labor history, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working-class racism in the US....

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    • A Grassroots History of the Progressive Era
    • By: Nell Irvin Painter
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society....

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    • The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935
    • By: Willie Drye
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-2019
    • Language: English
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    • In 1934, hundreds of jobless World War I veterans were sent to the remote Florida Keys to build a highway from Miami to Key West. The Roosevelt Administration was making a genuine effort to help these down-and-out vets. But the attempt to help them turned into a tragedy....

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    • On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
    • By: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath....

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    • The History of Labor in the United States
    • By: J. Albert Mann
    • Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.

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    • History Book for Kids 9-12 | Children's History
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Carmyn Block
    • Length: 13 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Before there were labor unions, there were issues of slavery, unsanitary working conditions, and a high number of work-related illnesses, and even deaths. So, where did the idea of labor unions start? Who started the first labor union? Know the answers in this history book for kids....

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    • The History of America’s Largest Labor Uprising
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 25 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-2021
    • Language: English
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    • As labor unions and movements began to form and coalesce in the 19th century, the tensions between workers and companies led to demonstrations, encounters, and even conflicts that descended into violence. Among those, none were larger than the colloquially known Battle of Blair Mountain....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Mine Wars and the Battle of Blair Mountain, the Largest Labor Uprising in the History of the United States of America (U.S. Military History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Saffir
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century? The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed....

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