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  • Storming Caesars Palace

    How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty

    by Annelise Orleck ...
    The inspiration for the PBS documentary premiering March 2023The story of the revolutionary Black women welfare organizers of Las Vegas who spearheaded an evergreen, radical revisioning of American economic justiceThis timely reissue tells the little-known story of a pioneering group of Black mothers who built one of this country's most successful antipoverty programs.In Storming Caesars Palace, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

    The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

    by Annelise Orleck ...
    The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition

    Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

    by Annelise Orleck ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck’s Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women’s history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Rethinking American Women's Activism

    by Annelise Orleck ...
    Series series American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century
    Rethinking American Women's Activism traces intersecting streams of feminist activism from the nineteenth century to the present.This enthralling narrative brings to life an array of women activists from the abolition, suffrage, labor, consumer, civil rights, welfare rights, farm workers’, and low-wage workers’ movements, and from campus fights against sexual violence, #MeToo, the Red for Ed ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

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    "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

    The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

    by Annelise Orleck ...
    Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 23 min

    The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage.Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the eyes of workers-activists: small farmers, fast-food servers, retail workers, hotel housekeepers, home ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Nancy MacLean ...
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    $15.99 CAD

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  • Wildland

    The Making of America's Fury

    by Evan Osnos ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAfter a decade abroad, the National Book Award*–* and Pulitzer Prize*–*winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States—Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL—to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury.Evan Osnos moved to Washington, D.C., in 2013 after a decade away from the United States, first... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Working Toward Whiteness

    How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

    by David R. Roediger ...
    How did immigrants to the United States come to see themselves as white?David R. Roediger has been in the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history for decades. He first came to prominence as the author of The Wages of Whiteness, a classic study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, Roediger continues ... Read more

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    The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger

    by Rebecca Traister ...
    *Updated with a new introduction*Journalist Rebecca Traister’s New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger in American politics, feminism, and social movements is “a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficiently—and collectively” (Vanity Fair).Long before Pantsuit Nation, before the Women’s March, ... Read more

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  • Michelle Obama

    An American Story

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    This YA biography of the former First Lady considers her journey from Chicago to the White House in the larger context of African American history.Michelle Obama grew up on Chicago's South Side, and while the world outside her door was chaotic and ever-changing, her family provided a stable environment in which she could grow and flourish. This biography of the former First Lady shows how a girl ... Read more

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