strikes and lockouts

The Great Depression and a strike at the grainmill greatly changes Virginia's life and outlook as her physician father begins to work with the unemployed and the strikers.

A teachers' strike upsets the life of a high school student who has good friends among the teachers and a father on the school board.

Three bears rescue Easter after the rabbits go on strike.

Explores the conflict between labor and capital in late nineteenth-century America through an examination of union organizer Eugene V. Debs and his instigation of the worker strike against the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago.

Discusses the violent Pullman strike of 1894, which closed railroads across the midwestern United States and made the nation's leaders see the need for addressing the concerns of the country's workers.

Traces the history of the unsuccessful but influential strike in which the American Railroad Union supported the employees of the Pullman Company.

Presents a comprehensive history of the 1912 textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and describes the struggle of the immigrant workers which included twenty-three thousand strikers from fifty-one different nations.

Lizzy and Josh have their friendship put to the test when Lizzy's father joins the reform movement, which puts him in confrontation with Josh's father, the wealthy mill owner.

Traces the history of the labor movement in America through a collection of primary source documents, as well as the thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Cesar Chavez, Eugene Debs, and others.

A brief biography of the migrant farm worker who led the nation-wide boycott of grapes as part of his movement to organize and help farm laborers in the United States.