strikes and lockouts

Discusses the labor strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Pullman, Illinois, in 1894, and the federal government's use of force to keep the railroads operating and to control the striking workers.

An illustrated account of immigrant Clara Lemlich's pivotal role in the influential 1909 women laborer's strike. It describes how she worked grueling hours to acquire an education and support her family before organizing a massive walkout to protest the terrible working conditions in New York's garment district.

In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.

Examines events that led to the Delano Grape Strike from 1965 through 1970, discussing low wages, dangerous working conditions, the leadership of Cesar Chavez, the United States Farmworkers Union, and other related topics.

A history of labor from colonial times to the present.

The story of Annie Clemenc and the 1913 strike by copper miners employed by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company in upper Michigan.

During the unrest created by the coal strike in Colorado in 1913-1914, Luke faces questions about this local happening while also dealing with his feelings toward a mysterious runaway.

Slam Duncan and his mountain biking Chain Gang stage a hunger strike to save their racing hill from developers, hoping their appetite for biking will outweigh their appetite for cheeseburgers and French fries.

Young Carlitos finds a way to show his support for his mother when she and other janitors go on strike in Los Angeles for fair wages.

Chronicles the events surrounding three major workers' strikes which occurred in the early twentieth century and discusses how those strikes changed the labor force forever.