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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of child workers.
3) Strike!
Author
Series
South End Press classics volume 1
Publisher
South End Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across...
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