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Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Language
English
Description
An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the unfair working conditions in New York's garment district.
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the pantheon of American icons, the cowboy embodies the traits of 'rugged individualism', independent, solitary, and stoical. In reality, cowboys were grossly exploited and underpaid seasonal workers, who responded to the abuses of their employers in a series of militant strikes. Their resistance arose from the rise and demise of a "beef bonanza" that attracted international capital. Business interests approached the market with the expectation...
64) How many machine guns does it take to cook one meal?: the Seattle and San Francisco general strikes
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia. But as America prepared for World War II, labor unions spread across...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Bridie works hard to feed her family, selling matches on the streets of Victorian London. After an incident leaves her with only three matches left, the magical strike of each one sees her tumble into visions of a brighter future. Realizing she has the power to change her own fortune, Bridie leads the match factory workers out on strike, achieving the remarkable through their unity and courage."--
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
A history of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement. In 1965, as the grapes in California?s Coachella Valley were ready to harvest, migrant Filipino American workers?who picked and readied the crop for shipping?negotiated a wage of $1.40 per hour, the same wage growers had agreed to pay guest workers from Mexico. But when the Filipino grape pickers moved north to Delano, in the Central Valley, and again asked for $1.40 an hour, the growers refused....
70) Full time
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three days before the college football national championship game, star quarterback LeMarcus James and teammate emmet Sunday ignite a player's strike declaring they won't compete until all student-athletes are fairly compensated. With billions of dollars at risk and legacies on the line, the stakes could not be higher. Now, with only hours until kickoff, the head coach and various power brokers must race against the clock to protect or destroy the...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The colliery village of Bellingsworth is already divided over an impending strike, so the last thing it needs is a murder, but that's exactly what it gets when a retired miner called Len Hopkins is found battered to death in his outside lavatory"--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Français
Formats
Description
A housebound ȴrophy housewife' (or 'potiche') steps in to manage the umbrella factory run by her tyrannical husband after the workers go on strike. To everyone's surprise, Suzanne proves herself a competent and assertive woman of action.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Bisbee '17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border. Radically combining collaborative documentary, western and musical elements, the film follows several members of the close knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town's darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Description
In 1867, while staying with her father in a small California mining town, ten-year-old Winnie meets a Chinese boy close to her age and discovers the role of his people in completing the transcontinental railroad.
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