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  • We Always Had a Union

    The New York Hotel Workers' Union, 1912-1953

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    Series series Working Class in American History
    One of New York City’s most powerful unions, the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council, AFL-CIO, represents almost 40,000 workers. Shaun Richman’s history places the labor organization within the context of American industrial and craft unionism and reveals how it came to influence politics and economic development in the city and beyond.From the start, New York’s organized hotel workers experimented ... Leer más

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  • Scenes from the American Working Class

    This Hard Land

    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    What have depictions of the working class in popular culture added to our understanding of the professional lives of Americans? Scenes from the American Working Class: This Hard Land offers twelve unique and profound answers from some of the most impactful and timeless novels (O! Pioneers, Ann Vickers, and Native Son), films (Blue Collar, Wall Street, and Other People’s Money), television shows ... Leer más

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  • Tell the Bosses We're Coming

    A New Action Plan for Workers in the Twenty-First Century

    How labor union organizing can help leverage today's movements, and why workers need unions more than ever beforeLengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security… Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor unions that could garner us protections and help us speak up for ourselves are growing weaker every day. In an age of rampant inequality, of ... Leer más

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  • The Lexicon of Labor

    More Than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and Historical Insights Concerning Labor in America

    A thoroughly updated edition of the clever, fun-to-read compilation of union language and lore. "Worth reading aloud while walking the picket line." — The Seattle TimesFirst published in 1998, The Lexicon of Labor found a large and appreciative following among readers who were grateful to have the vibrant, powerful language of the labor movement captured in a lively single volume. This long ... Leer más

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  • Buckley

    The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

    de Sam Tanenhaus ...
    “A magnificent achievement—a long, gripping, and enthralling account of the life of America’s premier conservative polemicist of the twentieth century.”—Max Boot, author of Reagan: His Life and Legend“A rich, immersive biography exposes the roots of the modern conservative movement through the life of the firebrand writer and commentator who shaped it.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ ... Leer más

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  • Listen, Liberal

    Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?

    de Thomas Frank ...
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  • Before the Storm

    Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

    “A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review)Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and convinced that political ideology was a thing of the past.But when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960, ... Leer más

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  • It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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  • Goliath

    The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

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    “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial ... Leer más

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  • A Question of RESPECT

    Bringing Us Together in a Deeply Divided Nation

    Life in America has become fractured—in public and private—across ever-widening fault lines of anger and incivility.The intensity of disagreement between Americans threatens the nation’s well-being, presenting itself as disrespectful and distrusting in politics, culture, and conversations. Confusion, frustration, and hatred permeate politics, social media interactions, and cable news. The ... Leer más

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  • Fear City

    New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

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  • It's Even Worse Than It Looks

    How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism

    Acrimony and hyperpartisanship have seeped into every part of the political process. Congress is deadlocked and its approval ratings are at record lows. America's two main political parties have given up their traditions of compromise, endangering our very system of constitutional democracy. And one of these parties has taken on the role of insurgent outlier; the Republicans have become ... Leer más

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