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Looks at different types of bicycles, gives tips on riding in city traffic, and shows how to avoid the most common cycling accidents.

A bold reconsideration of the roots and realities of American anarchism

A detailed account of labor corruption in the 1930s and the zealous journalist who railed against it

Focusing on the operation and influence of the Knights of Labor-the leading labor organization of the nineteenth century-Workingmen's Democracy explores the dreams, achievements, and failures of a movement that sought to renew the democratic potential of American institutions. Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions

The transformation of slavery and free labour in the Upper South

A study of James P Cannon's early years (1890-1928) that details how the life of a Wobbly hobo agitator gave way to leadership in the emerging communist underground of the 1919 era.

A book at the intersection of business, labor, and women's history.

A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private work spheres of diverse groups of women—housewives and trade unionists, immigrants and African Americans, professionals and menial laborers, and women from across the class spectrum. She delves into issues ranging from the gendered nature of the success ethic to the social activism and the meaning of citizenship for female wage workers. This second edition adds artwork and features significant updates. A new chapter by Kessler-Harris follows women into the early twenty-first century as they confront barriers of race, sex, and class to earn positions in the new information society.

The rise and fall of America's first truly inter-racial labour union

Explores how the sugar beet industry transformed the rural Midwest by introducing large factories, contract farming, and foreign migrant labour. Identifying rural areas as centres for modern American industrialism, this title contributes to an ongoing re-orientation of labour history from urban factory workers to rural migrant workers.

Railroad brotherhoods' dynamic impact on American labor relations and national politics

A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades

Mary H. Blewett's award-winning look at the men and women working in the shoe factories of Lynn, Massachusetts, explores the sexual division of labor and gender relationships in the workplace.