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Kids Library: Mother Jones, Triangle Fire, Cesar Chavez

We’ve collected this special set of attractive and kid-friendly books to help today’s youngsters understand the historic struggle of working people for justice and dignity. Each book explains an historic figure or history-altering incident in easy-to-understand language. All are generously illustrated to hold a young person’s attention. 32 pages each paperback

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Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground

Relations between organized labor and environmental groups are typically characterized as adversarial, most often because of the threat of job losses invoked by industries facing environmental regulation. 338 pages paperback

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The Basic Union Library

We’ve selected the best labor books in print today and created a library that no union, union leader or commited activist should be without. From educating your members and stewards to handling a broad range of grievances, from mobilizing for strength to understanding labor’s special history and language, this hand-picked collection is the perfect reference set. Price includes shipping

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Labour and the Challenges of Globalization

For decades, corporations around the world have scoured the planet for the best deal they could find on labor: the cheaper, more desperate and defenseless the workforce, the better. It hasn’t mattered to big capital that their striving to squeeze a few extra pennies from workers’ paychecks usually spells misery for the higher-paid, more decently-treated workers in the countries they abandon. 352 pages paperback

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The Labor Awareness Program

Young workers today have little knowledge of their rights and how to defend themselves. If they have good wages, they think it's because the boss is generous, and if they don’t, they have no idea how to go about winning them. 190 pages spiral bound

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The Legal Rights of Union Stewards, 4th edition

This is a 2009, fourth edition (revised) of a classic for labor activists: a thorough and easy-to-use digest of the rights of union stewards and officers. 155 pages paperback
Also available in Spanish, 4th edition, or as a 2 CD audio book. Specify in "Comment" field when ordering.

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The Labor Law Source Book: Texts of 20 Federal Labor Laws

A very handy collection that puts the full texts of all the major U.S. labor laws into one book. Includes the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Family and Medical Leave Act and 15 more. 290 pages paperback

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An Introduction to Labor Law, 2nd edition

This is a good introduction to labor law basics for local union leaders and activists. Published by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, it focuses on the nation’s primary labor law -- the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Chapters deal with organizing and elections, the duty to bargain, using economic weapons, enforcement, and many other day-to-day issues faced by union activists. 72 pages paperback

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Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global

Live Working or Die Fighting is a two-hundred-year story of the global working class and its many struggles for justice. The stories in the book come to life through the voices of remarkable individuals: child laborers in Charles Dickens’ England, visionary women on the barricades of Paris, gun-toting railway strikers in America’s Wild West, and beer-swilling German metalworkers who tried to stop the First World War. 305 pages paperback

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The Lexicon of Labor

This is an invaluable resource for all unionists, from rank-and-file activists to newsletter editors to union leaders. It offers readable, informative descriptions of more than 500 key terms, places, people and events in American labor history, from explaining who the Wobblies and Knights of Labor were to reporting on the 1997 Teamster strike at UPS. This revised and updated edition includes dozens of new terms and developments and introduces a new generation to the labor lexicon. 235 pages paperback

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Labor Pains: Inside America’s New Union Movement

If you’re a union organizer, or interested in getting a sense of what that kind of life is like, you’ll want to read this sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes heartening, sometimes troubling book about a Chicago organizer’s life, both on the job and off. 211 pages paperback

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Lyddie

Lyddie Worthen is a 13-year-old farm girl who takes a job in the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, when hard times hit her family. Six days a week from dawn to dusk she and the other girls run weaving looms in the murky dust-and lint-filled factory. Lyddie learns to read—and to handle the menacing overseer. 182 pages paperback

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Labor Union Law and Regulation, with 2011 Supplement

This treatise is the most comprehensive and definitive coverage of U.S. labor union law ever published, and a vital tool for union professionals. 1,060 pages hardcover includes 500-page hardcover supplement. The supplement can be purchased separately for 180.00 plus shipping. To order the supplement please contact us at 800-321-2545 or by email at ucsbooks@unionist.com.

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Inventory of American Labor Landmarks

This attractive booklet offers a nice selection from the Labor Heritage Foundation’s comprehensive, ongoing inventory of labor landmarks across the country. 24 pages stapled.
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