Strikes books

193 books were found.

Unraveled: Labor Strife and Carolina Folk during the Marion Textile Strikes of 1929

Unraveled: Labor Strife and Carolina Folk during the...
Author: Travis Sutton Byrd ISBN: 9781621901716 Format: Paperback	$105.47
Drawing on never-before-utilized sources, including minutes of corporate board meetings, union rosters, scrapbooks... Read More >>

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922

Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern...
Author: David A. Corbin ISBN: 9781940425795 Format: Paperback	$65.97
Between 1880 and 1922, the coal fields of southern West Virginia witnessed two bloody and protracted strikes, the... Read More >>

Crisis? What Crisis?: The Callaghan Government and the British ‘Winter of Discontent’

Crisis? What Crisis?: The Callaghan Government and the...
Author: John Shepherd , Bethan Hirst ISBN: 9781784991159 Format: Paperback	$40.99
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How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal?: The Seattle and San Francisco General Strikes

How Many Machine Guns Does It Take to Cook One Meal?:...
Author: Victoria Johnson ISBN: 9780295997131 Format: Hardback	$180.95
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Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Textile Workers' Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina

Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Textile...
Author: Kristina Horton ISBN: 9780786499649 Format: Paperback	$43.95
Union organizer and balladeer Ella May became a martyr for workers nationwide when she was murdered on her way to... Read More >>

Strike Action and Nation Building: Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel, 1899-1951

Strike Action and Nation Building: Labor Unrest in Palestine/Israel,...
Author: David De Vries ISBN: 9781782388098 Format: Hardback	$201.83
Strike-action has long been a notable phenomenon in Israeli society, despite forces that have weakened its recurrence,... Read More >>

Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market: Roots in the 1919 Steel Strike

Racial Conflicts and Violence in the Labor Market: Roots...
Author: Cliff Brown ISBN: 9781138880191 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Grounded: Reagan and the PATCO Crash

Grounded: Reagan and the PATCO Crash
Author: Michael Round ISBN: 9781138880221 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing

Worker Activism After Successful Union Organizing
Author: Linda Markowitz ISBN: 9781317451761 Format: Electronic book text	$554.40
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Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China: Strike Leaders’ Struggles

Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China:...
Author: P. Leung ISBN: 9781137483492 Format: Hardback	$145.17
This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a... Read More >>

History on Our Side: Wales and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike

History on Our Side: Wales and the 1984-85 Miners' Strike...
Author: Hywel Francis ISBN: 9781910448151 Format: Paperback	$31.05
Forewords by Mike Jackson and Sian James MP The film Pride has reignited interest in the struggles of the miners... Read More >>

A Lark for the Sake of Their Country: The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory

A Lark for the Sake of Their Country: The 1926 General...
Author: Rachelle Saltzman , Rebecca Mortimer ISBN: 9780719096761 Format: Paperback	$45.99
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The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship...
Author: Robert Forrant , Jurg Siegenthaler ISBN: 9780895038623 Format: Paperback	$175.00
This book appeals to a wide constituency. Most directly, it is of great relevance to historians of labor, industrialization,... Read More >>

The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship on the Bread & Roses Strike

The Great Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: New Scholarship...
Author: Robert Forrant , Jurg Siegenthaler ISBN: 9780895038616 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This book appeals to a wide constituency. Most directly, it is of great relevance to historians of labor, industrialization,... Read More >>

Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland, 1984–85

Collieries, Communities and the Miners' Strike in Scotland,...
Author: Jim Phillips , Steven Fielding ISBN: 9780719096723 Format: Paperback	$43.99
This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of... Read More >>

Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917

Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917
Author: Diane P. Koenker , William G. Rosenberg ISBN: 9780691604961 Format: Paperback	$104.99
More than seventy years since the Bolsheviks came to power, there is still no comprehensive study of workers' activism... Read More >>

Wonderland

Wonderland
Author: Beth Steel ISBN: 9780571321377 Format: Paperback	$24.99
Wonderland by Beth Steel premiered at the Hampstead Theatre, London, in June 2014. Read More >>

The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History

The Winter of Discontent: Myth, Memory, and History...
Author: Tara Martin López (College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Northern New Mexico College (United States)) , Sheila Rowbotham (School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester (United Kingdom)) ISBN: 9781781380291 Format: Hardback	$219.94
A reassessment of the myth of the British ‘Winter of Discontent’, 1978–79, from the perspective of those involved,... Read More >>

Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike

Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike
Author: Mark Metcalf , Mark Harvey ISBN: 9781783463664 Format: Paperback	$49.99
Includes some never previously seen before images to serve as a unique social document on the dispute that changed... Read More >>

Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China

Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China...
Author: Eli Friedman ISBN: 9780801479311 Format: Paperback	$72.42
Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an ""insurgency trap"" of its own devising and... Read More >>

Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China

Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China...
Author: Eli Friedman ISBN: 9780801452697 Format: Hardback	$279.45
Eli Friedman argues that the Chinese state has become hemmed in by an ""insurgency trap"" of its own devising and... Read More >>

Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980

Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980
Author: Michael M. Szporer , Mark Kramer ISBN: 9780739192801 Format: Paperback	$70.95
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Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity...
Author: Micah Uetricht ISBN: 9781781683255 Format: Paperback	$19.99
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Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labour Movement

Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London...
Author: John Tully ISBN: 9781907103995 Format: Hardback	$46.58
Historian and novelist John Tully tells the story of the previously relatively unknown Silvertown strike, arguing... Read More >>

Lockouts & Work Stoppages in Professional Sports: Select Analyses

Lockouts & Work Stoppages in Professional Sports: Select...
Author: Conor A Walsh ISBN: 9781629480800 Format: Paperback	$143.88
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