Gwen's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Jess is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.
Fourteen-year-old Chris, a poor relation of the wealthy Winchesters, must chose whether to be on the side of management or labor when his classmates' parents go on strike at the Winchester mill in response to a wage cut.
Photographs and text discuss the people and events involved in the unsuccessful but influential strike by railroad workers at the Pullman Company in Chicago in 1894.
the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign
Honey, Michael K
2007
Recounts the events surrounding the 1968 public-employee strike in Memphis that paralyzed the city and led to a complete overhaul of the city's plantation mentality that set the predominately African-American public workers apart from their upper-class white counterparts.
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 crush the striking workers.
A ten-year-old bobbin girl working in a textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s, must make a difficult decision--whether or not she will participate in the first workers' strike in Lowell.
