Labor Movement

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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • Written by: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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    • Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor
    • Written by: Hamilton Nolan
    • Narrated by: Hamilton Nolan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • Inequality is America’s biggest problem. Unions are the single strongest tool that working people have to fix it. Organized labor has been in decline for decades. Yet it sits today at a moment of enormous opportunity....

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    • A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie
    • Written by: Ellen Cassedy
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 9 to 5 wasn’t just a comic film—it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends....

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    • A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • Written by: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2019-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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    • The Untold Story of America’s Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
    • Written by: Celeste Monforton, Jane M. Von Bergen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • On the Job is the first account of a new kind of labor movement, one that is happening locally, quietly, and among our country's most vulnerable - but essential - workers....

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    • Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
    • Written by: Marshall Ganz
    • Narrated by: Marshall Ganz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2009-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history....

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    • A Study in Urban Revolution
    • Written by: Dan Georgakas, Marvin Surkin
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, David Sadzin, Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2020-02-25
    • 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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    • The History of the Riots in Chicago that Galvanized the Labor Movement
    • Written by: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Although it's no longer well known as a flashpoint, few things were as controversial during the late 19th century as the Haymarket Affair....

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    • The History of Labor in the United States
    • Written by: J. Albert Mann
    • Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-04
    • 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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    • General Motors, Flint, and the Strike That Created the Middle Class
    • Written by: Edward McClelland
    • Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-02
    • Language: English
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    • In a time of great inequality and a gutted middle class, the dramatic story of “the strike heard around the world” is a testament to what workers can gain when they stand up for their rights.

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    • Written by: Kevin Baker
    • Narrated by: John Rubenstein
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 1999-12-16
    • Language: English
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    • Among the thousands of immigrants who arrive in New York harbor is an Eastern European stowaway called Kid Twist who earns his keep as an enforcer for the ruthless gangster Gyp the Blood....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • Written by: Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrated by: Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-06
    • Language: English
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

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    • Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
    • Written by: Miriam Pawel
    • Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2013-02-27
    • Language: English
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    • A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable....

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    • The Women's Movement and the Development of Paid Family Leave Policies in the United States
    • Written by: Megan Sholar
    • Narrated by: Margo Vaughn Nelson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2017-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • The United States remains the only industrialized nation in the world that does not provide paid family leave at the national level for either men or women....

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    • 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City
    • Written by: Sam Roberts
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-09
    • Language: English
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    • From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known yet pivotal inhabitants who helped define it....

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