strikes and lockouts

The life of a fifteen-year-old Mexican American becomes increasingly complicated when his father joins the grape workers strike.

Twelve-year-old Binnie, whose mother runs a company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts, begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women workers.

Describes several major strikes by government workers, their effect on society, and suggests possible means of coping with them.

A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold.

In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.

Involved in a dangerous strike in a frontier mining town in 1911, twelve-year-old Sammy finds his feelings changing toward the older brother he has always idolized. Sequel to "Words by Heart.".

An easy-to-read biography of the Mexican American who organized the agricultural laborers' struggles for better pay and working conditions.

Jim Nolan, a new member of the Communist Party, struggles to keep a cool head when he leads nine hundred migratory workers in a strike against landowners in California's apple country.