(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052011)
Examines the main debates about the causes, events and consequences of the strike; and provides a vivid diary of events before, during and after the nine days in May....Loe edasi...
TV on Strike examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by telling the inside story of the first writers strike—the hundred-day writers’ strike that thwarted Hollywood in late 2007 and early 2008. The television industry’s uneasy...Loe edasi...
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 inte...Loe edasi...
The Great Strike of 1903 brought the North Wales village of Bethesda to national attention with the dispute between the oppressed slate- workers and the owner and officials of the Penrhyn Quarry. Charles Sheridan Jones was the correspondent sent by ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jan-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803994659)
A powerful book collating memories of the Miners’ Strike, encompassing pickets, collieries and communities, forty years on By the end of the notorious 1984/85 miners’ strike many wanted to forget their painful experiences.For...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300266580)
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A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Sep-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Manitoba Press, ISBN-13: 9780887552991)
This volume consists of 16 essays that examine key events of the Winnipeg General Strike in Canada in 1919 within the broader context of mass strikes and revolutions at the end of World War I in the Americas. Historians and other researchers from...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-2021, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487508418)
In Art Work, Katja Praznik counters the Western understanding of art – as a passion for self-expression and an activity done out of love, without any concern for its financial aspects – and instead builds a case for un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Oct-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of Michigan Press, ISBN-13: 9780472037841)
Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century In this classic study, Sidney Fine portrays the dramatic events of the 1936&;37 Flint Sit-down Strike against General Motors, which catapulted the UAW...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469655451)
For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal wildcat strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469655468)
For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal wildcat strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire....Loe edasi...
First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance beyond the available literature to an understanding of the links between strike activity and the political process. Although its prim...Loe edasi...
First published in 1998, this book, through a combination of theoretical and empirical research, tries to advance beyond the available literature to an understanding of the links between strike activity and the political process. Although its prim...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781788735742)
An indispensable window into the changing shape of the American working class and American politicsThirteen months after Trump allegedly captured the allegiance of “the white working class,” a strike wave—the first in...Loe edasi...
Far from a simple retelling of the General Strike, Magnificent Fight speaks to the power of workers’ solidarity and social organization. The book reveals the length the capitalist class and the state went to in protecting the status quo....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Nov-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295744162)
“We are undertaking the most tremendous move ever made by LABOR in this country, a move which will lead—NO ONE KNOWS WHERE!” With these words echoing throughout the city, on February 6, 1919, 65,000 Seattle workers began one of the most important...Loe edasi...
