Strikes books

193 books were found.

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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Dockers: The '95 to '98 Liverpool Lockout

Dockers: The '95 to '98 Liverpool Lockout

Author: Dave Sinclair ,  Ken Loach
ISBN: 9781445648484
Format: Paperback
$46.55

A unique insight into the 1995-98 dockers' dispute and its aftermath  Read More >>

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

Explores cultural forces that shaped two pivotal events affecting the West Coast - the 1919 Seattle General Strike...  Read More >>

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
$158.95

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 >>

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 >>

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
$77.60

"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
$300.15

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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

Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980 tells the story of this pivotal period in Poland's history from the...  Read More >>

Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity

Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity...

Author: Micah Uetricht
ISBN: 9781781683255
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"""An indispensable account ... Uetricht explains why the struggle of teachers in Chicago should matter to all of...  Read More >>

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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