Strikes books

193 books were found.

1913 - Larkin's Labour War

1913 - Larkin's Labour War

Author: Gerry Hunt ,  Gerry Hunt
ISBN: 9781847175830
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Dublin 1913 – Lockout Low-paid workers – under the leadership of Big Jim Larkin – organised themselves into...  Read More >>

The Last Great Strike

The Last Great Strike

Author: Clement Mesenas
ISBN: 9789814398312
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet

TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War Over the Internet...

Author: Cynthia Littleton
ISBN: 9780815610083
Format: Hardback
$79.07

TV on Strike examines the 2007 upheaval in the entertainment industry by telling the inside story of the hundred-day...  Read More >>

Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer

Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer...

Author: Peter Alexander ,  Luke Sinwell
ISBN: 9781909026254
Format: Paperback
$20.67

The Marikana Massacre in August 2012 involved the largest number of deaths of South African civilians by the security...  Read More >>

Digging the Seam: Popular Cultures of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike

Digging the Seam: Popular Cultures of the 1984/5 Miners'...

Author: Ian W. Macdonald ,  Simon Popple
ISBN: 9781443840811
Format: Hardback
$116.41

The 1984-5 Miners' Strike was one of the most important political events in British history. It was a bitter dispute...  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: 9780719086328
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book analyses the 1984-5 miners' strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of...  Read More >>

Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists

Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women...

Author: Roxanne Newton
ISBN: 9780415653305
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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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: 9780739174876
Format: Hardback
$162.95

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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: 9780719079771
Format: Hardback
$183.99

A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class 'volunteers' in Great Britain's...  Read More >>

With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital

With God on Our Side: The Struggle for Workers' Rights...

Author: Adam D. Reich ,  The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
ISBN: 9780801450662
Format: Hardback
$69.84

In With God on Our Side, Adam D. Reich tells the story of a five-year campaign to unionize Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital,...  Read More >>

The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the State of American Labor

The Broken Table: The Detroit Newspaper Strike and the...

Author: Chris Rhomberg
ISBN: 9780871547170
Format: Hardback
$151.80

When the Detroit newspaper strike was settled in December 2000, it marked the end of five years of bitter and violent...  Read More >>

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History of the West Virgina Mine Wars

Gun Thugs, Rednecks, and Radicals: A Documentary History...

Author: David Alan Corbin
ISBN: 9781604864526
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The story of the West Virginia mine wars, as told by those who lived through it.  Read More >>

Bad News: The Wapping Dispute

Bad News: The Wapping Dispute

Author: John Lang ,  Graham Dodkins
ISBN: 9780851247960
Format: Paperback
$41.40

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Reviving The Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America

Reviving The Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power...

Author: Joe Burns
ISBN: 9781935439240
Format: Paperback
$42.11

"How the revival of the ""classic"" production-halting strike is the best hope for a revitalization of the labor...  Read More >>

Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History

Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and...

Author: Dr Louise Raw ,  Sheila Rowbotham
ISBN: 9781441114266
Format: Paperback
$52.99

In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East...  Read More >>

The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial Democracy

The Memorial Day Massacre and the Movement for Industrial...

Author: M. Dennis
ISBN: 9780230618213
Format: Hardback
$84.99

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Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers' Strike of 1910

Breaking Their Chains: Mary Macarthur and the Chainmakers'...

Author: Tony Barnsley
ISBN: 9781905192649
Format: Paperback
$18.09

For two months in the autumn of 1910, hundreds of women chain makers in the Black Country struck against their employers...  Read More >>

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War

Author: Thomas G. Andrews
ISBN: 9780674046917
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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No Redemption

No Redemption

Author: Keith Pattison ,  David Peace
ISBN: 9781906601201
Format: Paperback
$51.75

The Strike of 1984-85 shook the foundations of British society, tearing apart traditional mining communities and...  Read More >>

The Women and Men of 1926: A Gender and Social History of the General Strike and Miners' Lockout in South Wales

The Women and Men of 1926: A Gender and Social History...

Author: Sue Bruley
ISBN: 9780708322758
Format: Hardback
$107.95

Work on the miners' Lock-Out of 1926 tends to focus on the perspective of the National Union of Mineworkers, while...  Read More >>

The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History

The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History

Author: Aaron Brenner ,  Benjamin Day
ISBN: 9780765613301
Format: Hardback
$441.00

Strikes have been part of American labor relations since the colonial days, reflecting the widespread class conflict...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of Class War: The Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914

The Archaeology of Class War: The Colorado Coalfield...

Author: Karin Larkin ,  Randall H. McGuire
ISBN: 9780870819551
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Weaves together material culture, documents, oral histories, landscapes, and photographs to reveal aspects of the...  Read More >>

Marching to the Fault Line: The Miners' Strike and the Battle for Industrial Britain

Marching to the Fault Line: The Miners' Strike and the...

Author: David Hencke ,  Francis Beckett
ISBN: 9781849010252
Format: Paperback
$38.99

An explosive and revelatory account of the 1984 Miners' strike.  Read More >>

Revolution In Seattle: A Memoir

Revolution In Seattle: A Memoir

Author: Harvey O'Connor
ISBN: 9781931859745
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Blow-by-blow, an eyewitness account of a hidden chapter in labor history: the Seattle General Strike of 1919.  Read More >>

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