Overview
You need to work to live. That's the truth for most people, and plenty of bosses have been abusing that truth for centuries. Long before the first labor unions were formed, workers still knew what exploitation looked like. It looked like the enslavement of Black people. It looked like generations of children dying in dangerous jobs. It looked like wealthy people hiring private militaries to attack their employees. But workers have always found a way to fight back. Arawak tribespeople resisted Columbus and his colonizers. Enslaved people led walkouts and rebellions. Textile workers demanded a wage that would let them have fun, not just survive. Miners died for the right to unionize. From 20,000 young seamstresses striking in the early 1900s to Uber drivers organizing for change today, people have learned we're stronger when we are united. Shift Happens is a smart, funny, and engaging look at the history of the worker actions that brought us weekends, pay equality, desegregation, an end to child labor, and so much more.
Full Product Details
Author: J Albert Mann ,
Sandy Rustin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798874628475
Publication Date: 04 June 2024
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Shift Happens is the book young readers absolutely need to understand how to fight back against the people who want to strip-mine their humanity for profit and call it progress."" -- ""Martha Brockenbrough, author of To Catch a Thief""
"""Shift Happens is the book young readers absolutely need to understand how to fight back against the people who want to strip-mine their humanity for profit and call it progress."" -- ""Martha Brockenbrough, author of To Catch a Thief"""
Author Information
J. Albert Mann is a disability activist and an award-winning author for young people. She has an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts in writing for children and young adults. Her works have won the Massachusetts Book Award Honor, has received a Disability Visibility grant, been named both a Bank Street Best Book and a Blue Ribbon Book by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and were selected for IBBY's Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. Sandy Rustin appears regularly at The Upright Citizen's Brigade in 'Gravid Water' (named 'Best Improv Show' by Time Out NY). Favorite NY credits include Modern Orthodox; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Jolson & Company; Sarah, Plain and Tall; and Neil Simon's Hotel Suite. TV credits include 'The Scariest Show on TV' (Comedy Central), 'Law and Order: SVU, ' 'As the World Turns, ' 'All My Children, ' and 'Guiding Light.' She is a Northwestern University graduate.
