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Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This project explores the teacher strikes of the late 1960s and 1970s, arguing that the strikes reflect the tensions of a liberal vision that could no longer afford to sustain the promise of economic opportunity. The manner in which the state provides education to its citizens has been a major political battleground for much of American history given that education is a fundamental facet of everyday life as well as the single-most expensive expenditure...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The coronavirus pandemic threw life into a tumult for American workers, igniting new class struggles and further stoking those already under way. Across the country, essential workers lashed out against low wages, long hours, and safety risks, both with labor union backing and without it. Nurses, teachers, grocery clerks, farmers, food processing workers, and many more fought for higher wages, paid sick leave, better healthcare, and, above all else,...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Paragon House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Describes life in the Mississippi river town of Muscatine, Iowa and the pearl button industry through the eyes of a young woman working to create safe working conditions and fair pay for factory workers and looks at the controversy of labor union development from the viewpoint of the owners and workers.
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