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    - Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80
    by Dennis A. Deslippe
    £21.99

    Explores how unionized wage-earning women led the struggle to place women's employment rights on the national agenda, decisively influencing both the contemporary labor movement and second-wave feminism. This title unravels a complex history of how labor leaders accommodated and resisted working women's demands for change.

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    - Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
    by Rick Halpern
    £18.49

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    - Class, Gender, and Working Girls' Clubs, 1884-1928
    by Priscilla Murolo
    £16.99

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    - The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
     
    £17.99

  • - ESSAYS IN AMERICAN LABOR HISTORY AND POLITICAL CULTURE
    by Leon Fink
    £16.49

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    - Organizing Memphis Workers
    by Michael K. Honey
    £24.99

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    - Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century
    by Dorothy Cobble
    £19.99

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    - Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s
    by Bruce Nelson
    £18.49

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    - Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Industry, 1780-1910
    by Mary H. Blewett
    £23.99

    Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.

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    - Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1940
    by Susan Benson
    £22.49

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    - Blacks, Italians, and Poles in Pittsburgh, 1900-1960
    by John Bodnar
    £22.49

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    by Norman Caulfield
    £18.49 - 78.49

    A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades

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    - Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917
    by Paul Michel Taillon
    £18.49

    Railroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics

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    - Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
    by Peter Cole
    £21.99 - 78.49

    The rise and fall of America's first truly inter-racial labour union

  • - A Concise History
    by Alice Kessler-Harris
    £14.99

    A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.

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    - Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919
    by Patricia A. Cooper
    £26.49

    A book at the intersection of business, labor, and women's history.

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    by Bryan D. Palmer
    £24.99 - 89.49

    A study of James P Cannon's early years (1890-1928) that details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era.

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    - Harold Gibbons, Ernest Calloway, and Working-Class Citizenship
    by Robert Bussel
    £21.99 - 78.49

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    - Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860
    by Max L. Grivno
    £19.49 - 78.49

    The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

  • - German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War
    by Bruce Levine
    £30.99

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    - The Civil War and the Making of an American Working Class
    by Mark A. Lause
    £19.49 - 78.49

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    - Scandal in Organized Labor
    by David Witwer
    £22.49 - 89.49

    A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

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